G. I. Gurdjieff (–1949)

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1. G. I. Gurdjieff

   Author of Meetings with Remarkable Men (All and Everything), Beelzebub's Tales To His Grandson, Views from the Real World: Early Talks Moscow Essentuki Tiflis Berlin London Paris NY Chicago as Recollecte (Arkana)

2. P. D. Ouspensky

   Author of In Search of the Miraculous: Fragments of an Unknown Teaching (Harvest Book), A New Model of the Universe, Strange Life of Ivan Osokin

3. Idries Shah

   Author of The Way of the Sufi, Tales of the Dervishes, Caravan of Dreams

4. J. G. Bennett

   Author of Gurdjieff : Making a New World, Enneagram Studies, Witness: The autobiography of John Bennett

5. Carlos Castaneda

   Author of The teachings of don Juan: a Yaqui way of knowledge, Journey To Ixtlan, The Eagle's Gift

6. Maurice Nicoll

   Author of The New Man: An Interpretation of Some Parables and Miracles of Christ, The Mark, Psychological Commentaries on the Teaching of Gurdjieff and Ouspensky (6 Volumes)

7. Jiddu Krishnamurti

   Author of You Are the World (Perennial library), Krishnamurti to Himself: His Last Journal, Network of Thought

8. Colin Wilson

   Author of The Outsider, The Occult, G. I. Gurdjieff: The War Against Sleep

9. Boris Mouravieff

   Author of Gnosis: Study and Commentaries on the Exoteric Tradition of Eastern Orthodoxy- Book 1- Exoteric Cycle, Gnosis: Book 2, Mesoteric Cycle, Gnosis: Book 3, Esoteric Cycle

10. Robert Anton Wilson

    Author of Quantum Psychology: How Brain Software Programs You and Your World, Cosmic Trigger III: My Life After Death, Coincidance : A Head Test

11. Aleister Crowley

    Author of Book of Thoth A Short Essay on the Tarot of the Egyptians, Equinox Volume III, No. V, 777 And Other Qabalistic Writings of Aleister Crowley, Book of Lies

12. Alan Watts

    Author of The Way of Zen, The Wisdom of Insecurity, Nature, Man and Woman

13. William Patrick Patterson

    Author of Eating the I: An Account of the Fourth Way--The Way of Transformation in Ordinary Life (In Search of the Self) Revised/Expanded (In Search of the Self), Struggle of the Magicians: Why Uspenskii Left Gurdjieff : Exploring the Teacher-Student Relationship

14. Rodney Collin

    Author of The Theory of Celestial Influence: Man, the Universe and Cosmic Mystery, Theory of Eternal Life

15. H.P. Blavatsky

    Author of Isis Unveiled (Volumes 1 and 2), The Key to Theosophy, The Secret Doctrine, Vol. 1 of 2: The Synthesis of Science, Religion, and Philosophy (Forgotten Books)

16. Kathleen Riordan Speeth

    Author of The Gurdjieff Work

17. Fritjof Capra

    Author of The Tao of Physics

18. Richard Wilhelm

    Author of The Secret of the Golden Flower: A Chinese Book of Life

19. Gregory Bateson

    Author of Mind and Nature: A Necessary Unity (Advances in Systems Theory, Complexity, and the Human Sciences)

20. Richard Maurice Bucke

    Author of Cosmic Consciousness: A Study in the Evolution of the Human Mind