Ouspensky quotes
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P. D. Ouspensky
Gurdjieff International Review
A Biographical Outline
Compiled by Merrily E. Taylor
[This biographical outline was first published in Remembering Pytor Demianovich Ouspensky, a brochure compiled and edited by Merrily E. Taylor and celebrating the acquisition of The P. D. Ouspensky Memorial Collection by Yale University Library in 1978. Copies of the entire brochure can be acquired at a cost of $4.50 by writing Yale University Library, Manuscripts and Archives, P.O. Box 208240, New Haven, CT 06520-8240 or calling (203) 432-1735. Their e-mail address is: mssa.assist@yale.edu.]
Thirty years after his death Ouspensky’s books are still being bought and read. The six books in English—Strange Life of Ivan Osokin, Tertium Organum, A New Model of the Universe, The Psychology of Man’s Possible Evolution, In Search of the Miraculous: Fragments of an Unknown Teaching, and The Fourth Way—sell over 40,000 copies a year. They have been translated into French, German, Spanish, and other languages. Yet both his teaching (called ‘the Syst
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P. D. Ouspensky
Petyr Dem’ianovich Uspenskii (March 5, 1878 – October 2, 1947) was a Russian philosopher, mathematician, author, teacher, and mystic. He is known as a conveyor and interpreter of the teachings of Georges Ivanovich Gurdjieff (1866-1949) but was well established as an author even before he encountered Gurdjieff. Ouspensky has a lasting place in the early-twentieth-century Russian literary tradition, and as a writer of numerous books on human spiritual development. [1]
Ouspensky is chiefly remembered by his book In Search of the Miraculous, published posthumously in 1949. In this book Ouspensky recounts his meeting and subsequent association with Gurdjieff and it is generally regarded as the most comprehensive account of Gurdjieff's system of thought ever published, as it often forms the basis from which Gurdjieff and his teachings are understood. [2]
Early Years
Ouspensky was born and grew up in Moscow. His parents were part of Russia's intelligentsia, the educated elite. His mother was a painter with an interest in Russian and French li
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Peter D. Ouspensky
Gurdjieff International Review
1878–1947
P. D. Ouspensky was a major contributor to Twentieth century ideas. He anticipated many of the key questions in philosophy, psychology and religion that have driven and informed us throughout the century. Born in Moscow and raised by an artistic and intellectual family, Ouspensky refused to follow conventional academic training. While employed as a journalist, his extensive travels, personal studies, and a quest for the miraculous resulted in the publication of his brilliant Tertium Organum in 1912. He studied intensively with G. I. Gurdjieff between 1915 and 1918. Throughout the rest of his life, Ouspensky continued to promote Gurdjieff�s system as the practical study of methods for developing consciousness. He lived unobtrusively in England after 1921, exerting considerable influence among writers, conducting his own study groups and publishing The New Model of the Universe in 1931. In 1940, he moved to the United States with some of his London pupils and continued lecturing until his death in 1947,
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