Stalin and Gurdjieff what connects them. Gurdjieff: “Everything and everything” or his reflections on man

Anyway, K.S. Nott in his book Further exercises Gurdjieff" describes how he met Gurdjieff in a Parisian cafe and began to complain to him about why he had carried away him and another, most likely his student, Oraja, so far from his native places, and now he has left them without giving him higher knowledge... Gurdjieff first listened quietly, and then, smiling sarcastically, said directly: “I need rats for experiments.”

What experiments did he conduct?

A significant part of Gurdjieff's system was the teaching of sacred dances and their performance. He himself trained students who were inexperienced in dancing, and then demonstration concerts were given in Paris, London, and New York. In addition, he diligently suppressed the will of his followers and mercilessly expelled dissenters.

The Nazi invasion caught G.I. Gurzhdiev in France. And then it turned out that definitely some moments(source not specified) Hitler and his like-minded people were very happy with Gurdjieff’s teachings. Let's say Herbiger, Hitler's teacher, believed that the Moon could be the cause of the apocalypse. “This is already the fourth satellite of the Earth,” he believed. – The previous three fell to Earth and exploded. Each cataclysm destroyed the previous civilization. Only the most worthy can survive..."

And Gurdjieff found that man was completely under the control of the Moon. She controls not only sleepwalkers, but also has a decidedly enormous influence(source unknown) on all others. Hitler was familiar with this doctrine and saw nothing harmful in it.

Moreover, it is known that Karl Haushofer, one of the ideologists of the Third Reich, was at one time with Gurdjieff in Tibet, looking for roots there Aryan race. It is also known that some of the Nazis were students of Gurdjieff.

In any case, such an episode is known. Gurdjieff once approached one of the leaders of the occupation regime in France and gave him a friendly slap on the back. The guards immediately tied up Gurdzhiev, and the Nazi himself just laughed: “Teacher! How glad I am to meet you!..” - and began to hug him.

In general, Gurdjieff survived the occupation of France more than tolerably.

However, after the collapse of the Third Reich, complications began to arise. Many began to laugh at Gurdjieff, calling him a “Greek charlatan,” an “American master of magic,” and a “miracle worker from the Caucasus.” The number of his students decreased, although those who remained had no doubt that he was a true magician with occult knowledge and special powers.

They also said that Gurdjieff could have predicted future(translator's note). However, he did this not often and at the special request of his students. But some of the predictions, through the students, became available in print. And then it turned out that Gurdjieff had predicted in advance the death of Lenin and the death of Trotsky. The latter apparently worried I.V. Stalin, who was the main organizer of the assassination attempt on Lev Davidovich. He ordered Beria to deal with the guru.

Perhaps after this the accident occurred, with which our story began. Gurdjieff's car on high speed suddenly lost control and crashed into a tree. However, the accident could have had quite ordinary reasons: everyone knew that Gurdjieff was a terrible reckless driver, simply a crazy driver.

One way or another, Georgy Ivanovich spent time in the hospital after the accident and began teaching dancing again. But after a while he suddenly fell right in class. And on October 29, 1949, he died in an American hospital near Paris.

Beria reported to Stalin that before his death the guru said: “I leave you in a difficult situation.”

His devoted disciples kept vigil over his body for several days, and K.S. Nott noted in his memoirs that “strong vibrations were felt in the room” and that “the radiation seemed to come from the body itself.”

And John Bene, who headed one of the groups after Gurdjieff’s death, argued that in recent months In the life of the teacher, he said that “he will inevitably leave this world, but another will come who will complete the work he started,” from somewhere in the Far East.

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The trajectories of Stalin and Gurdjieff have three points of intersection. It is impossible to answer the question whether these points are real or not. If existing biographies of Stalin can safely be called PR products, then biographies of Gurdjieff fall under the definition of folk tales. Point one. Stalin was born in 1887 in the city of Gori. Gurdjieff was born in 1885 in the village of Gurdzhani. Thus, initially they were separated by 2 years and one hundred and twenty kilometers. It is known that in the period from 1899 to 1901 they studied at the Tiflis Theological Seminary. Did they know each other? Unknown. I can only quote from Trotsky’s book “Stalin”: “At that time he (Stalin) was interested in questions of socialism and cosmogony.” After this, Stalin went into the revolutionary struggle, and Gurdjieff left for Tibet. Point two. During the period 1912-1913. both Stalin and Gurdjieff are actively working in St. Petersburg. Stalin oversees the editorial office of the newspaper Pravda, and Gurdjieff teaches and organizes the first production of his play “The Struggle of the Magicians.” There is no evidence of their intersection. However, the possibility of their meeting, in my opinion, is likely. The third point is even less realistic. It's similar to the story about the Beatles' secret visit to Moscow. There is no information about Stalin’s attitude towards esotericism. But there is a legend about how at the end of the 30s a certain person came to Russia, to Stalin, who went unnoticed into the Kremlin, into Stalin’s office. According to one version, it was Gurdjieff. Literary presentation This story can be found in Viktor Suvorov’s book “Control”.

Gurdjieff believed that man is a “mechanical doll”, devoid of a soul: “An ordinary person has no soul... A child is never born with a soul. A soul can be acquired during life: but even then it is a luxury available only to a few. Mostly people they live their whole lives without a soul, without an owner; everyday life a soul is not needed at all." Similar ideas can be found in Buddhism, but they are not in Christianity. The Holy Scripture speaks of God giving a soul to man: "And the Lord God created man from the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and man became a soul alive" (Gen. 2:7). The Apostle Paul writes about the three-part nature of man, who has spirit, soul and body: "May the God of peace Himself sanctify you completely, and may your spirit and soul and body be preserved in their entirety without blemish until the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ" (1 Thess. 5:23). The existence of the human soul is also evidenced by the following words of Christ: "...what will it profit a man if he gains the whole world, but loses his own soul? or what ransom will a man give for his soul?" (Matthew 16:26), and these words apply to all people, and not to a privileged group of "chosen occultists": "... I have spoken openly to the world; I always taught in the synagogue and in the temple, where Jews always meet, and I did not say anything secretly" (John 18:20). As we see, the Christian teaching about the soul has nothing to do with the teaching of Gurdjieff, but, as we have already noted, has a lot in common with Buddhism, but it, as you know, fundamentally denies the existence of God, which also does not agree with Christianity.

Like all occultists, Gurdjieff praises magic: “From ancient times, people knew how to use ... the laws of nature. Such use mechanical laws performed by man is called magic; it involves not only the transformation of substances in the desired direction, but also opposition or resistance to certain mechanical influences.

People who know these universal laws and know how to use them are called magicians. There is white magic and black magic. White magic uses its knowledge for good, black magic for evil, for its own egoistic purposes." Gurdjieff, in his attitude to magic, echoes E. P. Blavatsky: "White Magic. The so-called “Beneficial Magic” is divine magic, free from selfishness, lust for power, ambition or self-interest and aimed entirely at creating good for the world in general and one’s neighbor in particular. The slightest attempt to use one's paranormal powers to satisfy one's self turns these abilities into witchcraft and black magic." So, a true occultist, according to Blavatsky, is a white magician, but then Blavatsky adds: "But for a true researcher of the Occult Teaching, White or Divine Magic can to exist in Nature without its opposite, Black Magic, is no more than day without night...” By the way, the warlock Papus worked closely with theosophists, and they, apparently, were not at all embarrassed by the fact that he was engaged in black magic: “Gerard Encausse / Papus/...In 1887, in contact with French theosophists - adherents of the teachings of H. P. Blavatsky, ...prepared and published the treatise "Modern Occultism" - a kind of manifesto of a new generation of mystics late XIX century." As we see, the views on magic among theosophists and Gurdjieff actually coincide, but completely contradict the Christian attitude towards magic. According to Holy Scripture, magic is an abomination to God (Deut. 18:9-12), which, moreover, cannot help the magician in any way (Is. 47:9).

Gurdjieff’s teaching about Christ also has nothing to do with Christianity: “Christ was a magician, a man of Knowledge, He was not God, or rather, he was God, but on a certain level.” It is unnecessary to comment here, since the denial of the divinity of Christ is shared by all occultists.

The occult source of Gurdjiism is clearly visible from its relationship to astrology: “All beings born on Earth are colored by the light that prevailed on Earth at the moment of their birth; and they retain this color throughout their lives. Just as no effect can exist without a cause , and no cause can remain without consequences. Indeed, the planets have a huge impact both on the life of humanity in general and on the life of an individual. Big mistake modern science is that it does not recognize this influence: on the other hand, the influence of the planets is not as great as modern “astrologers” would like us to believe. As you can understand, Gurdjieff did not consider himself an “astrologer”, which is quite understandable: there are “dedicated”, and there are “specially dedicated”, to which Georgy Ivanovich, first of all, considered himself, however, about the delusions of grandeur from which he suffered, below We'll say a few more words. Gurdjieff's depth of knowledge of astrology allowed him to bestow upon humanity such revelations as: “The moon feeds on organic life, feeds on humanity. Humanity is part organic life; therefore, humanity is food for the moon. If all men became too intelligent, they would not want to be eaten by the Moon." The revelation is undoubtedly profound and worthy of such a great occult teacher as Gurdjieff. Thanks to the astrological research of this author, we now know that war is a consequence of the influence of the planets that people are just pawns subject to their influence.

Gurdjieff believed in the existence of so-called subtle bodies, what, however, all occultists believe: “Man has two substances: the substance of active elements physical body and the substance of the active elements of the astral body."

Let us now examine in more detail Gurdjieff’s attitude to the occult. Studying his books, you can find out that in occult circles he was recognized as one of their own: “... I had, in accordance with special conditions of my life, the possibility of access to the so-called "holy of holies" of almost all hermetic organizations, such as religious, philosophical, occult, political and mystical societies, congregations, parties, associations, etc., which are inaccessible to an ordinary person, and discussion and exchange of views with numerous people who, in comparison with others, are true authorities." Among the "true authorities" Gurdjieff also acquired a certain authority due to the fact that he once made "... the decision to apply my exclusive modern man knowledge of the so-called “supernatural sciences”, as well as the art of performing various “tricks” in these pseudo-scientific areas, and declare oneself a “professor instructor”…. The main reason This decision was based on the understanding of the fact that at that time a specific psychosis was widespread among people, which, as it was long ago established, periodically reaches high degree and manifests itself in surrendering oneself to all sorts of “damned” ideas in the field of false human knowledge, which in different eras wore different names, and these days it’s called etc. ... I have earned among the members of the above-mentioned “circles” and their families the reputation of a great “maestro” in everything related to supernatural knowledge.

The secrets of Joseph Stalin begin with his birthday. The official date of birth of Stalin is considered to be December 9, 1879. Julian calendar. In fact, the date of birth of Joseph Stalin is the sixth of December 1878 according to the Julian calendar. Stalin, by changing his date of birth, wanted to hide his real father. The real father of Joseph Dzhugashvili was Nikolai Mikhailovich Przhevalsky, the famous Russian traveler. In the winter of early 1878, Przhevalsky was treated in Gori and met with Stalin’s mother Ekaterina Georgievna Dzhugashvili. The result of their meetings was the child Joseph. Stalin by maternal line is Georgian, and on his paternal side has Polish and Russian ancestors.
While studying at the seminary, Stalin became acquainted with Marxist literature and literature with mystical and occult themes. Outwardly showing himself to be a materialist, in the future he was always interested in mysticism. Stalin studied mystical practices under the mentorship of Buddhist mystics during his exile in the Turukhansk region in 1913 - 1916. It was then that he acquired the ability to hypnotic suggestion and a special gaze technique. Many of Stalin's contemporaries, including Marshal Zhukov, noted that they could not stand Stalin's gaze. They felt uncomfortable and wanted to tell all their secrets.
Stalin always wrote his speeches and articles himself. In his speeches, Stalin used special techniques for mass hypnosis of the audience. Stalin successfully used techniques of suggestion in internal party struggle.

Presumably, Gurdjieff met the future “father of nations” immediately upon returning home from his first wanderings. Then, while studying at the Tiflis theological seminary, Joseph Dzhugashvili wrote romantic poems, and Gurdjieff formed a circle harmonious development, where seminarian Dzhugashvili also became a regular. Having completed his studies brilliantly, he abandoned poetry and suddenly became passionately interested in politics. Gurdjieff charmed Joseph with his independence and ideas about the development of a new man, however, he believed that Dzhugashvili would never reach heights in the political field.

Whether the old friends communicated after the revolution remains a secret, kept top secret to this day in the Lubyanka archives.

Another of his methods was that he forced his wards to work to the point of exhaustion in crude primitive work, so that they, like marathon runners, would get a “second wind.” According to Gurdjieff, when a machine is broken, control is taken over by a certain center, about which normal life we don't suspect.

Gurdjieff is one of the leading mystics of the 20th century, who created the doctrine of the fourth path of life. He raised no less serious mystics, such as Aleister Crowley (he was called the “beast of the apocalypse”), who created the Society of the Eastern Templars.

It is interesting that the topic of the relationship between Gurdjieff and Stalin is hidden in a veil of riddles and fiction. It is obvious that they knew about each other. If there were few meetings in the real world, then in a mystical sense they could conduct a constant dialogue. We must also take into account the fact that Stalin paid attention to the occult aspects of reality.
In Gurdjieff's book "Beelzebub's Tales to His Grandson" there is a story about Lentrohamsanin, a great ruler whom higher powers sent forever to an uninhabited planet because he selfishly used secret knowledge to harm his people.
Gurdjieff made up his name from the first 3 letters of the surnames of Lenin, Trotsky and Hammer.

A pseudonym is, although a false name, a name, and this name has an impact on a person, sometimes for the rest of his life. Or vice versa, a pseudonym, due to its choice by a person, must carry a hidden characteristic of the owner.

Stalin had about thirty pseudonyms. Including Salin or Solin. Very similar to Sanin.

Bibliography

1. Gurdjieff G. View from real world// Herald of good things to come. SPb., Ed. Chernysheva. 1993. P.64.

2. Gurdjieff G. Messenger of future good. SPb., Ed. Chernysheva. 1993. pp.92-93.

3. Brief biography cited from the book: Vanderhil E. Mystics of the 20th century. Encyclopedia. M., Ed. Astrel; Ed. MYTH. 2001. pp. 164-180.

4. Uspensky P.D. In search of the miraculous // Gurdjieff G. Herald of future goodness. SPb., Ed. Chernysheva. 1993. P.142.

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Stalin and Hitler were interested in his teachings. He was called a magician and a prophet. Georgy Ivanovich Gurdjieff himself modestly called himself a teacher of oriental dances. Well, who was he really?

George Gurdjieff

...In the summer of 1948, an accident occurred in Fontainebleau, near Paris. The driver lost control on a sharp turn and crashed into a tree as hard as he could. The mystical dance teacher - and it was he who was driving - was found unconscious.

What caused the disaster? Recent rain, driver confusion and a specially staged accident?.. Many were inclined to latest version– George Gurdjieff had enough enemies who wanted to settle scores with him.

Gurdjieff was compared to Blavatsky and the Tibetan sages. They said that it was he who helped Hitler choose the swastika as the National Socialist party emblem. It was believed that Stalin borrowed from him the method of remaking a person.

Gurdjieff was also distinguished by his rare “omnivorousness.” They looked for (and found) like-minded people in all walks of life. Poor or rich, Jew or anti-Semite, communist or Nazi - he didn’t care.

In general, Georgy Ivanovich Gurdjieff was an extraordinary person. About himself, he said that he was born in 1872 in the city of Karst on the border with Turkey. His father came from a Greek family and fled there from the Turks. Then the family moved to Alexandropol; The boy spent his childhood and adolescence here.

Gurdjieff told one of his followers, Peter Ouspensky, that he once happened to observe a group of Satanists and fire worshipers. And he saw with his own eyes how the fire-worshipping boy could not get out of the circle drawn around him on the earth by another boy - a Satanist.

Another time he heard someone ringing the alarm, shouting that a certain spirit had come out of the grave. And it took people a lot of effort to curb the revived dead man and bury him in the ground again.

In his book “In Search of the Supernatural,” Ouspensky states that, observing such manifestations of the supernatural around him, Gurdjieff gradually came to full confidence in “the existence of special knowledge, special powers and abilities beyond the capabilities of man, and also the existence of people possessing the gift clairvoyance and others supernatural powers" And he himself wanted to have such knowledge.

While still a teenager, he began traveling with the firm intention of finding teachers who could teach him such super-skills. Ouspensky and other students of Gurdjieff were sure that George Ivanovich had finally achieved his goal, but how and where remained a mystery to everyone.

Even in a conversation with Uspensky, he spoke in riddles, mentioning in his stories “Tibetan monasteries, Chitral, Mont-Athos - sacred mountain Athos, Sufi schools in Persia, Bukhara and East Turkestan; he also mentioned dervishes of various orders, but about all this he spoke very vaguely.”

John Benne in his book Gurdjieff: Great Mystery” mentions that Gurdjieff, being a native of the Caucasus, was confident that this place was still a repository of ancient hidden wisdom, dating back 4000 years.

One way or another, he embarked on a quest for esoteric knowledge that lasted more than 20 years, as a result of which he allegedly discovered “practical, effective methods, with the help of which a person could control high matter,” which is necessary for his spiritual and physical changes.

In 1912, Gurdjieff returned to Russia and settled in Moscow. He decided to organize a school of oriental dancing, hinting that he had learned this art from the dervishes.

He also took something from Buddhism and Christianity as the basis for his teaching. But 90 percent of his teaching was based on his personal philosophy. “The impression from communicating with Gurzhiev was very strong,” eyewitnesses recalled. - It was hypnosis incredible strength and the authorities..."

The dances he performed with his students were also strange. He dressed them in white suits and forced them to make movements with gestures vaguely reminiscent of Indian dances.

Despite acquaintance with Prince Bebutov and support cousin, Gurdjieff’s affairs in Moscow and St. Petersburg were going neither shaky nor slow. And when the revolutionary unrest began, the students generally began to run away.

Then Gurdjieff decided to go to Transcaucasia.

In the 20s of the twentieth century, Gurdjieff, together with some of his students, moved to Constantinople, and then to France, where he organized the Institute harmonious development near Paris. They say that a rich Englishman gave him money for this. Indeed, among his students there were Englishmen, as well as representatives of many other nationalities. And he looked at everyone as his slaves, to say the least.

Anyway, K.S. Nott, in his book “Further Teachings of Gurdjieff,” describes how he met Gurdjieff in a Parisian cafe and began to complain to him about why he had taken him and his other student, Oraj, so far from their native places, and now left them, never giving higher knowledge... Gurdjieff first listened quietly, and then, grinning sarcastically, said directly: “I need rats for experiments.”

What experiments did he conduct?

A significant part of Gurdjieff's system was the teaching of sacred dances and their performance. He himself trained students who were inexperienced in dancing, and then demonstration concerts were given in Paris, London, and New York. In addition, he diligently suppressed the will of his followers and mercilessly expelled dissenters.

The Nazi invasion caught G.I. Gurzhdiev in France. And then it turned out that some aspects of Gurdjieff’s teachings suited Hitler and his like-minded people very much. Let's say Herbiger, Hitler's teacher, believed that the Moon could be the cause of the apocalypse. “This is already the fourth satellite of the Earth,” he believed. – The previous three fell to Earth and exploded. Each cataclysm destroyed the previous civilization. Only the most worthy can survive..."

And Gurdjieff found that man was completely under the control of the Moon. She controls not only sleepwalkers, but also has enormous influence on everyone else. Hitler was familiar with this doctrine and saw nothing harmful in it.

Moreover, it is known that Karl Haushofer, one of the ideologists of the Third Reich, was at one time with Gurdjieff in Tibet, looking for the roots of the Aryan race there. It is also known that some of the Nazis were students of Gurdjieff.

In any case, such an episode is known. Gurdjieff once approached one of the leaders of the occupation regime in France and gave him a friendly slap on the back. The guards immediately tied up Gurdzhiev, and the Nazi himself just laughed: “Teacher! How glad I am to meet you!..” - and began to hug him.

In general, Gurdjieff survived the occupation of France more than tolerably.

However, after the collapse of the Third Reich, complications began to arise. Many began to laugh at Gurdjieff, calling him a “Greek charlatan,” an “American master of magic,” and a “miracle worker from the Caucasus.” The number of his students decreased, although those who remained had no doubt that he was a true magician with occult knowledge and special powers.

It was also said that Gurdjieff could predict the future. However, he did this not often and at the special request of his students. But some of the predictions, through the students, became available in print. And then it turned out that Gurdjieff had predicted in advance the death of Lenin and the death of Trotsky. The latter apparently worried I.V. Stalin, who was the main organizer of the assassination attempt on Lev Davidovich. He ordered Beria to deal with the guru.

Perhaps after this the accident occurred, with which our story began. Gurdjieff's car suddenly lost control at high speed and crashed into a tree. However, the accident could have had quite ordinary reasons: everyone knew that Gurdjieff was a terrible reckless driver, simply a crazy driver.

One way or another, Georgy Ivanovich spent time in the hospital after the accident and began teaching dancing again. But after a while he suddenly fell right in class. And on October 29, 1949, he died in an American hospital near Paris.

Beria reported to Stalin that before his death the guru said: “I leave you in a difficult situation.”

His devoted disciples kept vigil over his body for several days, and K.S. Nott noted in his memoirs that “strong vibrations were felt in the room” and that “the radiation seemed to come from the body itself.”

And John Bene, who led one of the groups after the death of Gurdjieff, claimed that in the last months of the teacher’s life he said that “he will inevitably leave this world, but another will come who will complete the work he began,” from somewhere in the Far East.

The obvious is always forgotten, and you are the most obvious thing to yourself.

You know that you exist.

You can remember thousands of other things, but you don't have to remember yourself. Life goes on beautifully without self-remembering. This is not necessary. It's completely useless. As far as day-to-day work is concerned, you don't need to know the absolute, the infinite. Naturally, you begin to take yourself for granted, as if you know, as if you remember.

Only very rarely... when you meet someone who helps you realize that you don't remember yourself, you fall asleep. Until someone provokes you, creates a question in you, the obvious will remain forgotten. To be with a master is simply to learn - not an answer, but a question. The answer is within yourself. You just forgot the question.

Osho, The Sword and the Lotus, p. 184

George Gurdjieff, Greek-Armenian origin, philosopher, mystic, writer, and teacher, full name- George Ivanovich Gurdjieff, born in Alexandropol, on the border of Russia and Turkey, around 1870 ( exact date, like many other details of his life, are unknown).

Gurdjieff himself tried, among his many secrets, to especially carefully preserve the secret of the time and place of his birth. There is no single TRUE source! There are just versions.

The Wikipedia articles on Gurdjieff give different dates. George Gurdjieff, even during his life, deliberately (just like Stalin) hid the date of his birth, deliberately calling different people different dates. This was done for a reason that is known to every competent mystic: by date, with the help of astrology, you can find out a lot that a person would like to hide about himself. As a result, this led to the fact that legends still circulate about these people. And the more “sources” you take, the greater the chaos will be. For example, the most competent in this matter, Rovner A.B., author of the book “Gurdjieff and Ouspensky,” names 3 dates of Gurdjieff’s supposed birth: 1872-1874-1877. This is the “optimal truth”.
George Gurdjieff is compared either to Count Cagliostro, or to Grigory Rasputin, or to the prophetess of Theosophy, Helena Blavatsky. He is credited secret power over the leaders of political dictatorships. Behind him stretches a trail of the most unexpected legends, where Hitler, Stalin and Beria appear...

This man was and remains one of the most mysterious figures XX century.

He left behind the books “Everything and Everything, or Beelzebub’s Tales to His Grandson”, “Meetings with wonderful people", "Life is real only when “I am””,
many techniques for working on awareness, including dances and Gurdjieff movements.

Gurdjieff's dances and movements are a wonderful gift for everyone who wants to become more conscious and is ready to take action to achieve this. concrete actions.

Gurdjieff brought some of the dances from the regions North Africa, Central Asia, Tibet, most of- developed independently.

With the right approach, they harmonize various energies within the body, helping to enter a state of PRESENCE, which is not easy in everyday life.

Helps create harmony between the body, mind and feelings.

Maintains a state of relaxation and alertness at the same time.

For meditators it is “vipassana with with open eyes».

The process of studying Gurdjieff's dances is a journey to the center of one's being, finding inner silence, beauty, bliss.

Traveled a lot in the countries of the East (India, Afghanistan, Persia, Turkestan, Egypt, Tibet...), in search of " secret knowledge».

Since 1912, he began to create groups of people interested in working on themselves.

According to Gurdjieff, man lives in a very insignificant place in the Universe. The planet is governed by many mechanical laws that complicate human self-realization. Internal growth This is not easy to achieve and requires great attention and effort from a person. And although a person has the opportunity to raise the level of his consciousness and, consequently, being, it is incredibly difficult for him to realize this alone. Work on oneself, according to Gurdjieff’s teachings, is individual and experimental. Nothing should be taken for granted unless it is proven. personal experience.

On the “Fourth Way” - as Gurdjieff called his teaching - a person must assert himself. The method of self-development that he taught is an attempt to free a person from the burden of laws affecting his development.

He claimed: one of important laws development is related to the spiritual impulse, i.e. For spiritual development the individual needs additional influence from the Teacher or group.

He spoke about the law of three, which he called the fundamental law that concerns all events - always and everywhere. This law says that every manifestation is the result of three forces: active, passive and neutral. This law - the basis of any creativity - is reflected in many world religions. As a result of this law, working on yourself is not reading books. A threefold effort is required: active - the teacher, passive - the student, neutral - the group. But he who thirsts for knowledge must himself make the first effort to find true knowledge and get closer to it. Knowledge cannot come to people without their own efforts, he said. “Organization is necessary, it is necessary to work in a group and with the help of someone who has already been liberated before. Only such a person can suggest what the path of liberation is. We need precise knowledge, instructions from those who have already walked the path, and it is necessary to use them together.”

A significant place in the views of G.I. Gurdjieff is occupied with ideas about the “student”, the “teacher” and their relationships. A disciple is a person who, due to the circumstances of his life, has experienced the experience of awakening and thereby emerged from the “outer circle” of humanity, but in himself is not capable of further promotion along the path of internal realization. A teacher is someone who has already done necessary work on the integration of many of one’s “I” and on the subordination of the personality to the essence, i.e. having an authentic Self, own will and ability to act. The teacher thereby acts as necessary condition confrontation of the student with himself for the purpose of internal development.

The esoteric truth of Gurdjieff's teachings is addressed primarily to the person himself and only through him - to the outside world. This teaching allows you to take a critical look at yourself and the world, try to understand the worldview of another person, and think seriously about the fundamental questions of existence.

Gurdjieff's techniques of self-awareness

Taste the food you eat with all your attention.

Stop unnecessary conversations.

If you notice that the other is not listening, stop immediately.

If you find yourself singing your usual song, stop immediately.

Really close actions by letting them go/coming back completely to yourself.

Practice on phone calls.

Start the next action with a completely clear mind.

Listen to music and notice where in your body the music is heard. Notice the difference between the physical perceptions of rhythm, melody and harmony.

Listen to silence, the spaces between words or musical notes.

Notice when you lose your focus and fall asleep.

See life as a game in which all roles are equal.

Observe one of your roles and try to debunk the identification.

Don't waste your energy by trying too hard: screwing on your toothpaste cap too tightly, doing the same with the peanut butter jar lid, slamming the door, pressing too hard on your keyboard, etc., etc.

In short, have a sense of proportion!

Gurdjieff and Stalin

Stalin and Gurdjieff knew each other well. According to some information, they studied at the Tiflis Orthodox Seminary at the same time. Although this is very doubtful: by that time Gurdjieff had already received such colossal spiritual knowledge that the seminary would not have given him anything... But it is absolutely certain that they lived in the same apartment in Tiflis. And since both were exceptional individuals, they had a noticeable influence on each other. Subsequently, while in exile, Gurdjieff more than once mentioned the wound that he received in his youth in Transcaucasia. Just during the famous “ex” of young revolutionaries, whose organization is attributed to Stalin. It speaks volumes that he was wounded by a bullet at the end of 1904 in the area of ​​the Chiatura Gorge, when a postal stagecoach was being robbed. And yet, it is not worth exaggerating Gurdjieff’s influence on the future leader, as many are doing now.

The existence at the same time of two powerful conceptual systems- National Socialism and Communism - of course, interesting fact. I can’t shake the feeling that behind any scientific explanations there must be something else, less real, but closer to the truth. This feeling justifies the attempt to place George Gurdjieff, the greatest philosopher and, if you like, esotericist of the 20th century, the Russian Don Juan of the 20s, between Stalin and Hitler.

Stalin and Gurdjieff

The trajectories of Stalin and Gurdjieff have three points of intersection. It is impossible to answer the question whether these points are real or not. If existing biographies of Stalin can safely be called PR products, then biographies of Gurdjieff fall under the definition of folk tales.

Point one.

Stalin was born in 1887 in the city of Gori. Gurdjieff was born in 1885 in the village of Gurdzhani. Thus, initially they were separated by 2 years and one hundred and twenty kilometers. It is known that in the period from 1899 to 1901 they studied at the Tiflis Theological Seminary. Did they know each other? Unknown. One can only quote from Trotsky’s book “Stalin”: “At that time he (Stalin) was interested in questions of socialism and cosmogony.” After this, Stalin went into the revolutionary struggle, and Gurdjieff left for Tibet.

Point two.

During the period 1912-1913. both Stalin and Gurdjieff are actively working in St. Petersburg. Stalin oversees the editorial office of the newspaper Pravda, and Gurdjieff teaches and organizes the first production of his play “The Struggle of the Magicians.” There is no evidence of their intersection. However, the possibility of their meeting is likely.

Third point

Even less real. There is no information about Stalin’s attitude towards esotericism. But there is a legend about how at the end of the 30s a certain person came to Russia, to Stalin, who went unnoticed into the Kremlin, into Stalin’s office. According to one version, it was Gurdjieff. A literary account of this story can be found in Viktor Suvorov’s book “Control.”

Gurdjieff and Hitler

The intersection of Gurdjieff and Hitler has one known point, quite clearly recorded. It is known that Gurdjieff was close to Karl Haushofer (apparently they were members of a group searching for... what they were looking for) and, accordingly, to Hitler and the other founders of National Socialism. In fact, Gurdjieff worked with them for some time. Photographs from the early 1930s have been preserved, confirming this fact.

The obvious is always forgotten, and you are the most obvious thing to yourself.

You know that you exist.

You can remember thousands of other things, but you don't have to remember yourself. Life goes on beautifully without self-remembering. This is not necessary. It's completely useless. As far as day-to-day work is concerned, you don't need to know the absolute, the infinite. Naturally, you begin to take yourself for granted, as if you know, as if you remember.

Only very rarely... when you meet someone who helps you realize that you don't remember yourself, you fall asleep. Until someone provokes you, creates a question in you, the obvious will remain forgotten. To be with a master is simply to learn - not an answer, but a question. The answer is within yourself. You just forgot the question.

Osho, The Sword and the Lotus, p. 184

George Gurdjieff, of Greek-Armenian origin, philosopher, mystic, writer, and teacher, full name George Ivanovich Gurdjieff, was born in Alexandropol, on the border of Russia and Turkey, around 1870 (the exact date, like many other details of his life, is unknown ).

Gurdjieff himself tried, among his many secrets, to especially carefully preserve the secret of the time and place of his birth. There is no single TRUE source! There are just versions.

Wikipedia articles on Gurdjieff give different dates. George Gurdjieff, even during his life, deliberately (just like Stalin) hid the date of his birth, deliberately giving different dates to different people. This was done for a reason that is known to every competent mystic: by date, with the help of astrology, you can find out a lot that a person would like to hide about himself. As a result, this led to the fact that legends still circulate about these people. And the more “sources” you take, the greater the chaos will be. For example, the most competent in this matter, Rovner A.B., author of the book “Gurdjieff and Ouspensky,” names 3 dates of Gurdjieff’s supposed birth: 1872-1874-1877. This is the “optimal truth”.
George Gurdjieff is compared either to Count Cagliostro, or to Grigory Rasputin, or to the prophetess of Theosophy, Helena Blavatsky. He is credited with secret power over the leaders of political dictatorships. Behind him stretches a trail of the most unexpected legends, where Hitler, Stalin and Beria appear...

This man was and remains one of the most mysterious figures of the twentieth century.

He left behind the books “Everything and Everything, or Beelzebub’s Tales to His Grandson”, “Meetings with Wonderful People”, “Life is Real Only When “I Am””,
many techniques for working on awareness, including dances and Gurdjieff movements.

Gurdjieff's dances and movements are a wonderful gift for anyone who wants to become more aware and is ready to take specific actions for this.

Gurdjieff brought some of the dances from the regions of North Africa, Central Asia, Tibet, and developed most of them independently.

With the right approach, they harmonize various energies within the body, helping to enter a state of PRESENCE, which is not easy in everyday life.

Helps create harmony between the body, mind and feelings.

Maintains a state of relaxation and alertness at the same time.

For meditators, this is “Vipassana with open eyes.”

The process of studying Gurdjieff's dances is a journey to the center of one's being, finding inner silence, beauty, bliss.

Traveled a lot in the countries of the East (India, Afghanistan, Persia, Turkestan, Egypt, Tibet...), in search of “secret knowledge”.

Since 1912, he began to create groups of people interested in working on themselves.

According to Gurdjieff, man lives in a very insignificant place in the Universe. The planet is governed by many mechanical laws that complicate human self-realization. Inner growth is not easy to achieve; it requires great attention and great effort from a person. And although a person has the opportunity to raise the level of his consciousness and, consequently, being, it is incredibly difficult for him to realize this alone. Work on oneself, according to Gurdjieff’s teachings, is individual and experimental. Nothing should be taken for granted unless proven by personal experience.

On the “Fourth Way” - as Gurdjieff called his teaching - a person must assert himself. The method of self-development that he taught is an attempt to free a person from the burden of laws affecting his development.

He argued: one of the important laws of development has to do with the spiritual impulse, i.e. For the spiritual development of the individual, additional influence from the Teacher or group is necessary.

He spoke about the law of three, which he called the fundamental law that concerns all events - always and everywhere. This law says that every manifestation is the result of three forces: active, passive and neutral. This law - the basis of any creativity - is reflected in many world religions. As a result of this law, working on yourself is not reading books. A threefold effort is required: active - the teacher, passive - the student, neutral - the group. But he who thirsts for knowledge must himself make the first effort to find true knowledge and get closer to it. Knowledge cannot come to people without their own efforts, he said. “Organization is necessary, it is necessary to work in a group and with the help of someone who has already been liberated before. Only such a person can suggest what the path of liberation is. We need precise knowledge, instructions from those who have already walked the path, and it is necessary to use them together.”

A significant place in the views of G.I. Gurdjieff is occupied with ideas about the “student”, the “teacher” and their relationships. A disciple is a person who, due to the circumstances of his life, has undergone the experience of awakening and thereby left the “outer circle” of humanity, but in himself is not capable of further advancement along the path of internal realization. The teacher is the one who has already done the necessary work to integrate his many “I”s and to subordinate the personality to the essence, i.e. having an authentic Self, own will and ability to act. The teacher thereby acts as a necessary condition for the student’s confrontation with himself for the purpose of internal development.

The esoteric truth of Gurdjieff's teachings is addressed primarily to the person himself and only through him to the outside world. This teaching allows you to take a critical look at yourself and the world, try to understand the worldview of another person, and think seriously about the fundamental questions of existence.

Gurdjieff's techniques of self-awareness

Taste the food you eat with all your attention.

Stop unnecessary conversations.

If you notice that the other is not listening, stop immediately.

If you find yourself singing your usual song, stop immediately.

Really close actions by letting them go/coming back completely to yourself.

Practice on phone calls.

Start the next action with a completely clear mind.

Listen to music and notice where in your body the music is heard. Notice the difference between the physical perceptions of rhythm, melody and harmony.

Listen to silence, the spaces between words or musical notes.

Notice when you lose your focus and fall asleep.

See life as a game in which all roles are equal.

Observe one of your roles and try to debunk the identification.

Don't waste your energy by trying too hard: screwing on your toothpaste cap too tightly, doing the same with the peanut butter jar lid, slamming the door, pressing too hard on your keyboard, etc., etc.

In short, have a sense of proportion!

Gurdjieff and Stalin

Stalin and Gurdjieff knew each other well. According to some information, they studied at the Tiflis Orthodox Seminary at the same time. Although this is very doubtful: by that time Gurdjieff had already received such colossal spiritual knowledge that the seminary would not have given him anything... But it is absolutely certain that they lived in the same apartment in Tiflis. And since both were exceptional individuals, they had a noticeable influence on each other. Subsequently, while in exile, Gurdjieff more than once mentioned the wound that he received in his youth in Transcaucasia. Just during the famous “ex” of young revolutionaries, whose organization is attributed to Stalin. It speaks volumes that he was wounded by a bullet at the end of 1904 in the area of ​​the Chiatura Gorge, when a postal stagecoach was being robbed. And yet, it is not worth exaggerating Gurdjieff’s influence on the future leader, as many are doing now.

The existence at the same time of two powerful conceptual systems - National Socialism and Communism - is certainly an interesting fact. I can’t help but feel that behind any scientific explanation there must be something else, less real, but closer to the truth. This feeling justifies the attempt to place George Gurdjieff, the greatest philosopher and, if you like, esotericist of the 20th century, the Russian Don Juan of the 20s, between Stalin and Hitler.

Stalin and Gurdjieff

The trajectories of Stalin and Gurdjieff have three points of intersection. It is impossible to answer the question whether these points are real or not. If existing biographies of Stalin can safely be called PR products, then biographies of Gurdjieff fall under the definition of folk tales.

Point one.

Stalin was born in 1887 in the city of Gori. Gurdjieff was born in 1885 in the village of Gurdzhani. Thus, initially they were separated by 2 years and one hundred and twenty kilometers. It is known that in the period from 1899 to 1901 they studied at the Tiflis Theological Seminary. Did they know each other? Unknown. One can only quote from Trotsky’s book “Stalin”: “At that time he (Stalin) was interested in questions of socialism and cosmogony.” After this, Stalin went into the revolutionary struggle, and Gurdjieff left for Tibet.

Point two.

During the period 1912-1913. both Stalin and Gurdjieff are actively working in St. Petersburg. Stalin oversees the editorial office of the newspaper Pravda, and Gurdjieff teaches and organizes the first production of his play “The Struggle of the Magicians.” There is no evidence of their intersection. However, the possibility of their meeting is likely.

Third point

Even less real. There is no information about Stalin’s attitude towards esotericism. But there is a legend about how at the end of the 30s a certain person came to Russia, to Stalin, who went unnoticed into the Kremlin, into Stalin’s office. According to one version, it was Gurdjieff. A literary account of this story can be found in Viktor Suvorov’s book “Control.”

Gurdjieff and Hitler

The intersection of Gurdjieff and Hitler has one well-known point, quite clearly recorded. It is known that Gurdjieff was close to Karl Haushofer (apparently they were members of a group searching for... what they were looking for) and, accordingly, to Hitler and the other founders of National Socialism. In fact, Gurdjieff worked with them for some time. Photographs from the early 1930s have been preserved, confirming this fact.
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