title: Man in the Cosmos: G. I. Gurdjieff and Modern Science (Codhill Press)
author:  Christian Wertenbaker 
description: These principles have guided these essays, some of which have been published in Parabola magazine over the last fifteen years. They represent a personal quest for a more comprehensive truth about the nature of the world. To pursue his aim of reconciling Gurdjieffs ideas and modern science, Dr. Wertenbaker studied the sciences broadly in college, then went on to medical school and to postgraduate training in neurophysiology, neurology, neuro-ophthalmology and ophthalmology. He also became a member of the Gurdjieff Foundation, devoted to exploring and pursuing Gurdjieffs ideas and aims.
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  The Forest Philosophers Copyright © 1924  C. E. Bechhofer Roberts 
  www.Gurdjieff-Bibliography.com 
   
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  The Forest Philosophers 
   
  C. E.  Bechhofer Roberts 
   
  Carl Eric Bechhofer Roberts first met Gurdjieff in Tiflis in 
  1919 and visited Gurdieff's Institute several times but 
  "preferred to remain an intimate and disinterested spectator."  
  The English spelling of Gurdjieff-/-Gurdjiev was not yet fixed.   
  J. W. D. 
   
  Of all the mystics who have become prominent in Europe during the last twelve 
  years or so, and especially since the war, when their numbers have been doubled, I 
  cannot recall that any has attracted so much interest in so short a time as George 
  Ivanovitch Gurdjiev, the founder of the "Institute for the Harmonic Development of 
  Man" at Fountainebleau, near Paris.  I exclude Rasputin from this statement both 
  because his "mysticism" was of a somewhat peculiar nature and because his notoriety 
  was due rather to political than to intellectual influence.   
  The wide