G. I. Gurdjieff, was an influential spiritual teacher of the early to mid-20th century who taught that most humans live their lives in a state of hypnotic "waking sleep", but that it is possible to transcend to a higher state of consciousness and achieve full human potential. Gurdjieff developed a method for doing so, calling his discipline "The Work" (connoting "work on oneself") or "the Method". According to his principles and instructions,Gurdjieff's method for awakening one's consciousness is different from that of the fakir, monk or yogi, so his discipline is also called (originally) the "Fourth Way". At one point, he described his teaching as being "esoteric Christianity". At different times in his life, Gurdjieff formed and closed various schools around the world to teach The Work. He claimed that the teachings he brought to the West from his own experiences and early travels expressed the truth found in ancient religions and wisdom teachings relating to self-awareness in people

Gurdjieff a Study of His Teaching

WALKER, Kenneth

Religion & Spirituality

Unwin Hyman

The Extra-Sensory Mind

Perennial

A Study of Gurdjieff's Teaching by Kenneth Walker

A Study of Gurdjieff's Teaching (Jonathan Cape Paperback)

Politics & Social Sciences

Philosophy

Vintage/Ebury (A Division of Random House Group)

The making of man

Biographies & Memoirs

Professionals & Academics

Routledge& Kegan Paul

Explores the ways climate change and extreme weather are negotiated politically in a border community &nbsp; As a borderland city with generations of slow violence and extreme weather events like flash flooding and intense heat waves, San Antonio, Texas, speaks directly to global issues in climate politics. In Climate Politics on the Border: Environmental Justice Rhetorics, Kenneth Walker takes a place-based approach to his study of San Antonio to explore how extreme weather events and responses to them shape local places, publics, and politics, with an eye toward a future characterized by severe climate breakdown. &nbsp; Attending to the local histories and micropolitics of San Antonio, Walker examines the effects of extreme weather events as they are experienced across radically inequitable social categories. These local histories serve as a guide, not just for future climates, which stand to be unprecedented, but for the necessary public and political responses to them. He shows how extreme weather events in the past have reinforced colonial social orders that weaken democratic goals of pluralism and equity. Conversely, he also shows how diverse coalitions have resisted and responded to these forces. &nbsp; Walker examines the ethics of Latinx and Anglo relations within state-sponsored productions of racial inequity and environmental degradation, the coalitional capacities of environmental activists and second-wave Chicana/o organizations to protect clean water and transform local political representation, the obligations of place-keeping in Latinx urban design and ecological restoration, and the need to foster pluriversal worlds in city-level climate action and adaptation plans. Collectively these chapters rethink tropes of adaptation, resilience, and coalition as rhetorical and ecological capacities for public and political responses to extractivism. &nbsp; Based on years of archival work and fieldwork, Climate Politics on the Border demonstrates vividly why ecological and anticolonial approaches to rhetoric are essential for grappling with climate politics. Overall, this is a timely study of how environmental degradation, pollution, and climate change are disputed and negotiated at the local political level in a borderland community. &nbsp;

Climate Politics on the Border: Environmental Justice Rhetorics (Rhetoric, Culture, and Social Critique)

Social Sciences

University Alabama Press

Sex and Society

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Fletcher, Peter

Psychology & Counseling

Greenwood Pub Group

A Study of Gurdjieff's Teaching by Kenneth Walker.

A Study of Gurdjieff's Teaching

Samuel/Weiser

Venture With Ideas: Meetings With Gurdjieff And Ouspensky

An essential introduction to the teachings of Gurdjieff and Ouspensky, written by a close student of both men.\nKenneth Walker was an English doctor who became one of Ouspensky's students in London, and then one of Gurdjieff's students in Paris. Here, he presents his engaging, first-person account of his more than twenty years studying Gurdjieff's system and practicing the Work.\nThis is a high quality, well-formatted book.

Venture With Ideas: Meetings With Gurdjieff and Ouspensky

Alternative Medicine

Independently published

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.

Kessinger Publishing

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