As we said in the last post, Mr. Gurdjieff found his school through an introduction by a street barber.
Could this be a symbolic representation that a man begins "on the street", literally in his life.
He then is brought to a school, not neccesarily on a mountaintop, or in the foothills of the Himalayas,
but is led through streets to the entrance. Then he has to make a choice.
Mr. Ouspensky knew when he met Mr. Gurdjieff that he had found what he had been looking for, and knew in
his core that he must make an appointment to meet again.
The story Glimpses of Truth describes such a meeting.
Mr. Gurdjieff would often make an effort to be unkempt, or look out of place, in some way to force the individual to
make an effort to break through his shame, or being spotted by peers, to be with this strange man.
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