title: The Unknowable Gurdjieff
author: Margaret Anderson
description: Provides a first hand account of the teachings of George Ivanovitch Gurdjieff, the Russian occultist. Gurdjieff used stylized dance to "free" people to develop their full capabilities and influenced the modern human-potential movement.
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  Paul E. Anderson 
  1897–1983 
   
  by Russell Huff 
   
  In the year 2000 a manuscript of the collected talks of Paul E. Anderson 
  was accepted into the permanent library collection of Harvard 
  University. This manuscript is a sampling—in no way exhaustive—taken 
  from Mr. Anderson’s talks during the period from 1972 through 1975. 
  As such, these talks represent a small fragment of the teachings of Paul 
  and Naomi Anderson, whose lives were devoted to the sharing of the 
  Gurdjieff Work with others. 
   
  There is an anecdote regarding Mr. Gurdjieff, that once while working 
  on his monumental legominism, All and Everything, he remarked that he 
  would have to “bury the dog deeper”—not, in this case, the dog’s bone, 
  but the dog itself. With this he conveyed that the ideas he was concerned 
  with were living entities with their own vitality and instinctive potency, 
  and they were not meant to come into our possession without 
  exceptional efforts, sustained efforts of the sort that only those who 