Robin Bloor

To Fathom the Gist

Volume 1 - Approaches to the Writings of G. I. Gurdjieff

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Produktbeschreibung

This book is intended for those who have not yet read Beelzebub's Tales to His Grandson "for the third time" to their own satisfaction. It describes approaches and techniques that may assist serious readers of Gurdjieff's Tales in their efforts to "fathom the gist."

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Karnak Press
• Seitenzahl: 310
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. März 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 506g
• ISBN-13: 9780978979140
• ISBN-10: 0978979141
• Artikelnr.: 37725852

Autorenporträt

Author's Biographical Notes¿Robin Bloor was born in 1951 in Liverpool, UK. He obtained a BSc in Mathematics at Nottingham University and took up a career in the computer industry, initially writing software. From 1989 onwards, he became a technology analyst and consultant. He has thus been a writer of a kind ever since. In 2002 he was awarded an honorary Ph.D. in Computer Science by Wolverhampton University in the UK. He currently resides in and works from Austin, Texas in the USA.¿In 1988, after drifting through several work groups, Bloor met and became a pupil of Rina Hands. Rina was a one-time associate of J. G. Bennett, a student of Peter Ouspensky's, and later, a pupil of George Gurdjieff. Following Gurdjieff's death, she remained part of J. G. Bennett's group for a while. Subsequently, she formed groups both in London, where she lived, and in Bradford in the North of England-initially in conjunction with Madame Nott. She was an accomplished movements teacher and an inspirational group leader. She died in 1994 and is buried next to Jane Heap in a cemetery in North London.¿Bloor leads a group, The Austin Gurdjieff Society, in Austin, Texas. Aside from the usual movements and Work activities, the group specializes in the study of Gurdjieff's writings and the study of Objective Science, as articulated by Ouspensky in In Search of The Miraculous, and by Gurdjieff in The Tales.¿