Gurdjieff
Americannoun
noun
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He introduced her to the teachings of George Gurdjieff, the esoteric spiritual teacher who took Western intellectual circles by storm in the 1920s.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 30, 2026
Like many New Age dabblers in the nineteen-seventies, he was drawn to the Fourth Way—a brand of mysticism established by George Gurdjieff in the early twentieth century.
From The New Yorker • Nov. 18, 2019
The Gurdjieff Ensemble As part of its first U.S. tour, the group pays tribute to Armenian composer and ethnomusicologist Komitas Vardapet.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 22, 2019
For more than a decade, Mr. Lewiston was a musician at the Gurdjieff Foundation in Manhattan.
From New York Times • May 31, 2017
In the years that followed, a group of Gurdjieff students, Rosicrucians, spiritualists, and sleepless bohemians gathered around Clara and the three Mora sisters.
From "The House of the Spirits: A Novel" by Isabel Allende
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