Word: gurdjieff
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...20th century life left him wishing, now & then, for a good latter-day ark. In 1923, a friend startled him by announcing that "a small group of people now in London . . . has started building one." When Walker asked for the new Noah's name, he was told: "Gurdjieff...
Indifferent to conventional religious faiths, she was seeking consolation and cure in the occult doctrines of a magnetic Georgian mystic named George Ivanovich Gurdjieff,-when death cut all her questions short on Jan. 9, 1923. Bogey had Tig's tombstone inscribed with a line from Shakespeare's Henry IV. It was a line which she had always loved and sometimes lived by: "But I tell you, my lord fool, out of this nettle, danger, we pluck this flower, safety...
...Gurdjieff, who died in 1949, enjoyed his peak vogue among highbrows in low spirits during the '203 when he operated an "Institute for the Harmonious Development of Man" at Fontainebleau, France. Crux of his medical doctrine: that man has three natures, intellectual, emotional and instinctive, and gets ill when he develops one at the expense of the other two. Cures practiced at Fontainebleau included tree-chopping and complicated "dance-exercises" to any of 5,000-odd tunes composed by Gurdjieff. For Katherine Mansfield, he prescribed a stay in a cowloft, so that she coftld inhale the air the cows...