Work Ideas
Group Work
G. I. Gurdjieff’s legacy is four-fold. He left a blueprint for a new world in his magnum opus: All and Everything, Beelzebub’s Tales to His Grandson. The Sacred Dances or Gurdjieff Movements are a valuable and remarkable tool for self study and group consciousness, and the sacred music elicits a deep feeling of wish for the spiritual reality. Gurdjieff left a practical teaching, to be transmitted in a group or community medium, providing ideal opportunities to work towards building balanced relationships within ourselves, with others, and for the Work. Including spiritual exercises, practical physical work, psychology, cosmology, the enneagram, meditation, presence, relaxation, sensation, and service, the fourth way teaching evolves to fit time and place.
Taking responsibility
This teaching becomes manifest at times of crisis and transition in human history, and many feel that we are at such a point in time now. According to J. G. Bennett, we are at the end of a 2,500 year epoch, and probably at the midpoint of a great cycle. A new idea is entering mankind now, that we must take responsibility for our relation to nature and the biosphere. Externally we can see this in renewed concern for the health of the environment, climate change, interest in green energy, locally-grown food, and sustainability practices, but that is not enough. We each must also develop internal perceptions which allow us to act in synergy with the Higher Intelligences which guide the evolution of humankind and the earth.