title: How to Start a Gurdjieff Group and Other Essays and Letters About the Practical Christianity of G.I. Gurdjieff: A Collection of Essays and Letters de
author: Colin R. Brown
description: Colin R. Brown is a student of the Gurdjieff work and a Roman Catholic. He practises as a spiritual director in Aurora, Oregon.
zlib_text: G. GURDJIEFFS 
  INSTITUTE FOR THE 
  HARMONIOUS 
  DEVELOPMENT 
  OF MAN
  Main Branch: 
  FRANCE
  FONTAINEBLEAU
  (Formerly “Chateau du Prieure”)
  
  G. GURDJIEFF’S
  INSTITUTE FOR THE HARMONIOUS 
  DEVELOPMENT OF MAN
  The Institute for the Harmonious Development of Man by 
  the G. I. Gurdjieff system is practically the continuation of the 
  Society that went under the name of the “ Seekers after Truth.” 
  This Society was founded in 1895 by a group of various specialists, 
  "including doctors, archaeologists, priests, painters, etc., whose aim 
  was to study in close collaboration so-called supernatural phe­
  nomena, in which each of them was interested from a particular 
  point of view.
  During the existence of the Society, its members undertook 
  many very difficult journeys, mostly in Persia, Afghanistan, 
  Turkestan, Thibet, India, but also in other countries. 
  They 
  also undertook a good deal of work of various descriptions in 
  connection with their object, which involved much labour and 
  organisation.
  Through