Gurdjieff's America: Mediating the MiraculousOffers information and stories about Gurdjieff, setting him within the cultural and social contexts of America between 1924 and 1935. |
Contents
From Sarmoung to Seventh Avenue | 1 |
18921922 Gurdjieffs Myths of America | 9 |
19221929 Americans at Avon | 15 |
1924 Gurdjieffs Seizure of New York City | 31 |
1924 Boston Taken by Storm | 45 |
1924 Completing the Conquest | 55 |
1924 Orage Toomer and King Staking Gurdjieffs Claim in America | 63 |
19251928 Gurdjieffs True Fiction of America | 77 |
19391948 Gurdjieffs American Oil Well | 183 |
19481949 Gurdjieffs Recapture of America | 197 |
Ghosts of Gurdjieff in America | 209 |
Pouring the Empty into the Void | 219 |
The Cultural Space of Gurdjieffs America | 231 |
Modern Forms of Gurdjieffs American | 239 |
Gurdjieffs Logokinesis | 251 |
Semper Americana | 257 |
19251928 The Americanization of the Work | 95 |
19251928 The Work in America Without Gurdjieff | 117 |
19281932 Gurdjieff Stepping on Corns in America | 133 |
19321935 Gurdjieff the Wanderer | 149 |
19351939 Gurdjieffs Strands of American Identity | 169 |
In Quest of the Historical Gurdjieff | 261 |
Notes | 267 |
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