George Gurdjieff - Early Travels, Research as a Student

Gurdjieff's Travels/Research

When he was twenty years old, Gurdjieff embarked on a twenty year spiritual search which brought him on astounding expeditions in Egypt, the eastern Mediterranean Afghanistan, Turkey, Central Asia, India, Tibet and the Gobi desert.

He discovered on these journeys the basis of his teaching, that much of a universal wisdom coming from ancient traditions was transmitted through music and dance. In temples, monasteries and special schools he visited, the dances were varieties of movements and postures that were similar to an alphabet, that could be read as books for those who could interpret it. So in the evening when the priests and the priestesses danced in the hall of the temple, one could read in these postures the truths that were implanted in them several thousands of years ago and which are transmitted in this way from one generation to another.

In 1912 Gurdjieff travelled back to Russia and devoted his life to sharing what he had learned. He made tradition into an alive contemporary teaching. All of Gurdjieff's teaching is very practical; he firmly proclaimed the importance of the body and physical work in the transmission of his teaching. An important part was the teaching of "sacred dances" or "sacred movements" which he adapted or created or choreographed himself for the modern man. In collaboration with De Hartmann he also created the music for the movements...

The Sacred Dances

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