{"id":452,"date":"2021-04-11T00:50:02","date_gmt":"2021-04-11T00:50:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/robcouture.com\/blog\/?p=452"},"modified":"2021-05-03T00:49:44","modified_gmt":"2021-05-03T00:49:44","slug":"reading-gurdjieff-primers-on-work-concepts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robcouture.com\/blog\/reading-gurdjieff-primers-on-work-concepts\/","title":{"rendered":"Reading Gurdjieff: Primers on Work Concepts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Outside of Gurdjieff&#8217;s own writings, there are a number of books available that introduce basic work concepts.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"margin-bottom: 1em;\"><em>A Simple Explanation of Work Ideas<\/em>, by Maurice Nicoll. Short and to the point.<\/li>\n<li style=\"margin-bottom: 1em;\"><em>Gurdjieff: A New Interpretation<\/em>, by Wojciech Konrad Kulczyk PhD. Includes material from Gurdjieff\u2019s own writings rather than relying too heavily on Ouspensky\u2019s exposition.<\/li>\n<li style=\"margin-bottom: 1em;\"><em>Gurdjieff: An Approach to His Ideas<\/em>, by Michel Waldberg. Similarly includes material from Gurdjieff\u2019s own writings.<\/li>\n<li style=\"margin-bottom: 1em;\"><em>Towards Awakening: An Approach to the Teaching Left by Gurdjieff<\/em>, by Jean Vaysse. Also short and to the point.<\/li>\n<li style=\"margin-bottom: 1em;\"><em>Gurdjieff: The Key Concepts<\/em>, by Sophia Wellbeloved. A reference manual of concepts. Includes some short biographies of Gurdjieff\u2019s pupils, various groups that formed after Gurdjieff\u2019s death, and the passive deviation from Gurdjieff&#8217;s teaching found in &#8220;New Work&#8221;.<\/li>\n<li><em>The Psychology of Man\u2019s Possible Evolution<\/em>, and<br \/>\n<em>The Cosmology of Man\u2019s Possible Evolution<\/em>, by P.D. Ouspensky, his particular exposition of Gurdjieff&#8217;s ideas.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Take these with a grain of salt. Learn what Gurdjieff taught from reading his own writings and working out your own understanding with guidance from a school and instructors rather than relying solely on another&#8217;s exposition of Gurdjieff&#8217;s teaching.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Outside of Gurdjieff&#8217;s own writings, there are a number of books available that introduce basic work concepts. A Simple Explanation of Work Ideas, by Maurice Nicoll. Short and to the point. Gurdjieff: A New Interpretation, by Wojciech Konrad Kulczyk PhD. Includes material from Gurdjieff\u2019s own writings rather than relying too heavily on Ouspensky\u2019s exposition. Gurdjieff: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-452","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gurdjieffism"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/robcouture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/robcouture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/robcouture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robcouture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robcouture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=452"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/robcouture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":471,"href":"https:\/\/robcouture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452\/revisions\/471"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robcouture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robcouture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robcouture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}