title: Teachings of Gurdjieff: A Pupil's Journal
author: C. S. Nott
description: Drawn from Nott's hundreds of pages of notes and diaries, this book provides a record of the expressions and actions of Gurdjieff and the profound impact of life at the Chateau du Prieure, Fontainbleau, at that time. Gurdjieff was a Russian occultist who used stylized dance to "free" people and help them to develop their full capabilities. Gurdjieff has often been attributed as the founder of the modern human-potential movement.
zlib_text: Gurdjieff the Unknown Man by K. Walker —Copyright © Tomorrow 1952 
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  Gurdjieff, the Unknown Man 
   
   
  Kenneth Walker, M. D. 
   
   
   
   
  Dr. Walker’s vivid account of his meetings with 
  Ouspensky and  first visits to Gurdjieff’s Paris 
  apartment in the late 1940s, is distinguished by his 
  keenly trained powers of observation. 
   
   
   
  The Russian philosopher P. D. Ouspensky illustrated the difficulty of recognising a 
  teacher of esoteric knowledge, with two stories. The first told of a German who 
  journeyed to India in search of a guru and returned without having found one. He 
  had not realised that the native servant who looked after him while he was in that 
  country was the man for whom he was seeking. The second story referred to a dealer 
  in parrots living in Bordeaux, who, quite unbeknown to his fellow townsmen, was a 
  teacher of esoteric knowledge. 
  But what is esoteric, or hidden, knowledge? It is a term which has been badly 
  mishandled and which h