• Ceiling with multiple square skylights showing blue sky and sunlight.

    “Self-observation is an instrument of self-change, a means of awakening”

  • A small hole in the ground with water and floating plants inside, surrounded by dry soil and green grass.

    “It is only by grounding our awareness in the living sensation of our bodies that our real presence can awaken.”

  • Close-up image of a single round white pebble embedded in sandy ground with small rocks and grains around it.

    “Believe nothing you cannot verify for yourself” - G. I. Gurdjieff

Welcome,

the Kansas City Gurdjieff group celebrates 30 years of studying the ideas and practice of the Gurdjieff Work. We are available to anyone who wishes for and needs this practice in their life.

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Gurdjieff, an enigma…

“It has been nearly a hundred years since G. I. Gurdjieff first appeared in Moscow in 1912, bringing with him a teaching unlike anything known or heard of in the modern world. And although his ideas have since then been explored in hundreds of books and articles, and now exert a significant influence throughout the Western world, both the teaching and the man himself remain essentially as new and unknown, and as astonishing, as when they first appeared.

Gurdjieff ’s fundamental aim was to help human beings awaken to the meaning of our existence and to the efforts we must make to realize that meaning in the midst of the life we have been given.”

— Jacob Needleman, “Introduction to the Gurdjieff Work”

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On Your Way: Here is an incomplete list of recommended books by Gurdjieff and his students.