MesoAmericas & Beyond

Mary Ellen Korman speaks on her new book, A Woman’s Work with Gurdjieff, Ramana Maharshi, Krishnamurti, Anandamayi Ma & Pak Subuh: The Spiritual Life Journey of Ethel Merston, published by Arete Communications.

The spiritual life story of Ethel Merston based on her diaries and recollections is an important historical work, as well as a keen insight into many of the seminal teachers of her times. Merston was one of Gurdjieff’s first English pupils and lived at the Prieuré from 1922 until 1927. Her seriousness and organizational abilities led Gurdjieff to put her in charge in his absences. Fritz Peters gives a wonderful account of what she had to put up with (he gives her the name Miss Madison) in his Boyhood with Gurdjieff. In India, she lived at Ramana Maharshi’s ashram for many years. She gives a first-person account of his death and also the meeting between The Mother and Sri Aurobindo and Anandamayi Ma (with whom she often traveled). She also attended many of Krishnamurti’s talks and seminars in the 1930s, was a friend of Sunyata, Alain Daniélou, Krishna Prem and Swami Omananda. In the 1950s she was initiated into Subud by Pak Subuh at J. G. Bennett’s Coombe Springs study house. At Mendham, she met again her friends from her Gurdjieff days—Mme de Salzmann, Mme Ouspensky, Olga de Hartmann and Peggy Flinsch—and was introduced to Lord John Pentland.

Thursday, April 29, 2010, 7:30 p.m.
Towson, Maryland

Location:
Ukazoo Books
730 Dulaney Valley Road (in Dulaney Plaza across from Towson Town Center)
21204

Thursday, May 13, 2010, 7:00 p.m.
Washington, D.C.

Location:
The Musical Source
1409 15th St. NW (lower level), corner of P Street
20005
Metro: Red Line, Dupont Circle stop;
or Blue & Orange Line, MacPherson Square stop

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William Patrick Patterson discusses and signs his latest book, Spiritual Survival in a Radically Changing World-Time. Technology is the new Ideology. Explored is how the seminal teaching of G. I. Gurdjieff’s Fourth Way—the teaching for our time—meets the challenge of Technology and gives esoteric keys to self-awakening in a radically changing world-time. The evening includes guided meditation and a taste of Conscious Body-Breath Impressions™.

Wednesday January 13, 2010, 7:00 P.M.
Washington, D.C.

Location:
The Musical Source
1409 15th St. NW (lower level), corner of P Street
20005
Metro: Red Line, Dupont Circle stop;
or Blue & Orange Line, MacPherson Square stop

Donation: $10 ($5 may be applied towards the purchase of a book, video)

Thursday, January 14, 2010, 7:30 P.M.
Towson, Maryland

Location:
Ukazoo Books
730 Dulaney Valley Road (in Dulaney Plaza across from Towson Town Center)
21204

Donation: $10 ($5 may be applied towards the purchase of a book or video)

These events and others can be viewed at Gurdjieff-Legacy.org.

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William Patrick Patterson discusses and signs his latest book, Spiritual Survival in a Radically Changing World-Time. Evening includes guided meditation and Conscious Body/Breath Impressions.

Thursday August 20, 2009, 7:30 P.M.
West Hollywood, CA

Location:
Bodhi Tree Bookstore
8585 Melrose Ave., West Hollywood, 90069
Three blocks west of La Cienga Blvd. The cross street is Westbourne.
Valet parking is available for $3.50. The valet is located between Urth Cafe and the Bodhi Tree. The valet fee will be refunded for a purchase of $10 in the bookstore.

For more information call the store at (310) 659-1733 or visit Gurdjieff Legacy

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Location:
Copperfield’s Books
140 Kentucky Street
Petaluma, California
(707) 762-0563

Date:
Thursday March 5, 2009, 7:00 P.M.

If you have questions, email Introduction@Gurdjieff-Legacy.Org or call (800) 470-3086.

Please join us as author William Patrick Patterson discusses his new book Spiritual Survival in a Radically Changing World-Time. The evening includes guided meditation and a taste of Conscious Body-Breath Impressions™.

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Technology is the new ideology. We live almost totally enframed by it. To control it, we must understand it. Technology is not different from us, something alien. It is man’s rational part developed to an extraordinary binary degree. As it is a part of us, to understand it we must first understand ourselves. We must seek to know our own essence, our true purpose and meaning. Technology faces us with the urgent call to explore anew the primordial question – Who am I? Spiritual Survival in a Radically Changing World-Time explores technology’s challenge and how it can spur us to awaken to a new integration of body, senses and mind. It illustrates how the seminal teaching of G.I. Gurdjieff’s Fourth Way meets the challenge of Technology and gives the esoteric keys to self-awakening in a radically changing world-time.

William Patrick Patterson is the founder/director of The Gurdjieff Studies Program and the founder/editor of The Gurdjieff Journal (est. 1992), the first domestic and international Fourth Way journal. He has led groups, as well as given seminars and talks throughout the United States for many years. He is the author of seven books on The Fourth Way and is the director-writer-narrator of the award-winning Fourth Way video trilogy, The Life & Significance of G. I. Gurdjieff.

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