Meetings with Remarkable Men

This audiobook is an autobiography of the famous philosopher, psychologist, and accomplished esotericist of the 20th century—George Ivanovich Gurdjieff. About him, countless incredible and contradictory stories and rumors have been piled up. What is true and what is fiction about Gurdjieff can only be understood by studying the life path of this unique person.

Gurdjieff’s personality as a Conscious Man is adaptive and flexible. In his interactions with students, he is a brilliant scientist and esotericist; when he encounters the profane, he seems like a simple Eastern carpet merchant. To a journalist he appears as an oil magnate; in Turkestan he is presented as “a jack-of-all-trades,” earning enormous money. He is also the choreographer and director of the ballet “The Fight of the Magicians,” the organizer of the “Institute for the Harmonious Development of Man,” and an esoteric writer.

There is no doubt that Gurdjieff’s ideas have had and still have a powerful influence on the thinking of modern people. With his life, Gurdjieff showed how a conscious person can—and should—live. They say that one of Gurdjieff’s followers, finding himself in desperate material circumstances, managed to get out of them with honor, using the master’s advice given in the chapter “The Material Question.”