P. D. Ouspensky
1878–1947 · London, England
About
P. D. Ouspensky was a Russian philosopher and author who taught the Fourth Way—a path of inner development for ordinary life, based on the work of G. I. Gurdjieff.
Contemplative Christian tradition
Fourth Way
Russian, English
Biography
Pyotr Demianovich Ouspensky was born in Moscow in 1878. A journalist and esoteric seeker, he met George Gurdjieff in 1915 and became the principal expositor of the Fourth Way in the West after separating from Gurdjieff in 1924.
His books In Search of the Miraculous and The Fourth Way document a practical psychology of self-remembering and conscious evolution that can be pursued while living an ordinary worldly life.
Teachings & topics
Fourth WaySelf-rememberingConscious evolutionEsoteric ChristianityPsychology
Bibliography
- In Search of the Miraculous1949 · Harcourt Brace
- The Fourth Way1957 · Knopf
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