WITHOUT BENEFIT OF CLERGY.: Some Personal Footnotes to the Gurdjieff Teaching
2005. 277 pages. Item #10282
New cloth bound in dust jacket.
As a Young man, Frank Sinclair looked for, and found, the teaching of G.I. Gurdjieff in Cape Town, South Africa, some eight years after Gurdjieff's death. Moved by his first encounter with Gurdjieff''s chief pupil, Madame Jeanne de Salzmann, at Franklin Farms (the old Ouspensky estate at Mendham, New Jersey), he extended his original two-month visit to the United States into a stay that has lasted more than 45 years. In this brief memoir, he describes some of the unusual events surrounding the last days of Madame Ouspensky, his own extraordinary experiences at Mendham, and his subsequent work under the direct influence of Madame de Salzmann. He gives an intimate account of his lifelong search for meaning, his relations with some unusual people--"seekers all"--and concludes with some random inferences about the place of the Work in the world today. A first rate memoir, profound and sensitive, and filled with humble reflections of events and people encountered during his many years within the Gurdjieff Foundation of New York, including in more detail his encounters with Lord Pentland, William Segal, Martin Benson, Thomas Forman. Also includes, stories of his introduction to the Work with Fairfax Hall in South Africa.
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