Interest in the enigmatic spiritual teacher George Ivanovitch Gurdjieff grows year on year. Prominent among the handful of authors who address his legacy engagingly, yet from a convincing reservoir of genuine experience, is Gurdjieff’s biographer and lifelong apologist James Moore.

With this compelling memoir Gurdjieffian Confessions: a self remembered Moore finally breaks his personal silence of fifty years. Crafted both as an exercise in self‑interrogation and as a warm tribute to Gurdjieff’s magnetic pupil Henriette Lannes, the text necessarily illuminates and populates a secret world.

It is equally a book for those who relish Moore's zestful writing; for social historians of Western esotericism; and for all who would enter, even by proxy, into the way of Gurdjieffian search.

Because Moore's pilgrimage had been through a habitat shared with cherished friends, and strewn with Gurdjieffian totems and taboos, self-revelation was problematical. He hesitated. He consulted. Yet the stimulus he finally received was unsolicited: "More than a bravo on the extract about your own childhood" volunteered Peter Brook, "It's wonderfully evocative and deeply moving. Don't stop!"

Moore did not stop – hence this unprecedented memoir.

James Moore may be contacted through the publisher by writing to: authors@gurdjieff.org.uk

Published by:

Gurdjieff Studies Ltd, 2005

ISBN 0-9549470-0-2

233 x 154mm, 304pp + 8 pp b&w photos

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