Introduction
Foreword to the French Edition
The Awakening of Thought
First Initiation
The Sacred Cosmos: Teachings of G. I. Gurdjieff
The Secret Dimension
Gurdjieff's Philosophy of Nature
Gurdjieff, or the Metaphysics of Energy
A Kind of Volcano
Time and Initiative
The Dynamics of Waking Sleep
Who Are the Best People?
Gurdjieff and Modern Psychology
Beginning to See
An Inner Journey: the Actor as Companion
Letter to a Contemporary Gnostic
On Detachment
Tell Me in Five Minutes
Letter to a Friend
Between Form and the Indefinable
The First Step
The Ladder of Evolution
An Unfinished Creation: A Christian Understanding of Gurdjieff's Teaching
Gurdjieff Work and the Teaching of Krishna
The Men of Blame and the Fourth Way
Homage to Gurdjieff
Automatism and Consciousness
From Consciousness of the Body to "the Body of Consciousness"
Questions and Responses
Photographs
The Role of the Movements
Sacred Dances
Gurdjieff and Music
A Search for Awakened Listening
Gurdjieff Observed
Notebooks
Facing Mr. Gurdjieff
To Recognize a Master
The Quest for Sincerity
Recollections
Transmission
No Conscious Effort Is Ever Lost
The Dessert
How I Learned Who He Was
An Exacting Way
A Man of Merciless Compassion
The Patriarch Goes West
Let Us Not Conclude
George Ivanovitch Gurdjieff: Biographical Sketch
Bibliography
About the Contributors
Index of Proper Names