George S. Georgiades was a Greco-Armenian charismatic spiritual leader who was born in Russia but who made a name for himself in Paris as the mystic George Ivanovitch Gurdjieff.
In Russia, he established what he called "The Institute for the Harmonious Development of Man" (1919), which he re-established in France in 1922. It was at his Institute that Gurdjieff promoted a litany of hilarious occult and mystical notions about the universe, which he claimed he was taught by wise men while traveling and studying in Central Asia. He put down his "insights" in books with titles like Meetings with Remarkable men, All and Everything, and Beelzebub's Tales to his Grandson: an objectively impartial criticism of the life of man. Gurdjieff's obscure musings were presented in more accessible language by his disciple Petyr Demianovich Ouspensky.
From http://www.duversity.org/ideas/4thway.html
The idea of the fourth way is strongly associated with Gurdjieff, who appears to have been the first to use this phrase.
The bulk of his discussion of this idea is to be found in Ouspensky's record of his teaching in Russia, In Search of the Miraculous.
In his own writings, the idea is implicit but never mentioned as such.
In Russia, he referred to three traditional ways:
1. Way of the Fakir, involving effort in the body
2. Way of the Monk, involving devotion and concentration of feeling
3. Way of the Yogi, involving largely mental attention.
In the fourth way, effort is made in all three: body, feeling and mind.
However, in contrast with the traditional ways, the fourth does not require separation from conditions of ordinary life.
'In the fourth way there are many teachers'.
The Fourth Way "One must do everything one can and then say 'God have Mercy!'"
True Believer, Mystic or charlatan, I care not, for I am obsessed with the simple piano transcriptions of his transcendental music.
The Following two YouTube Vids posted by Chinnamasta66.
Keith Jarrett playing "Sacred Hymns" of G.Gurdjieff.
Transcription for piano by Thomas de Hartmann.
Hymn for Easter Thursday
Fractal animation by Jock Cooper
http://www.fractal-recursions.com
and....
Hymn
Video sequence from www.ultraslo.com
Both songs Recorded at Bauer Studios, Ludwigsburg, Germany in March 1980.
From UCSD and The Rebecca Elizabeth Lytle Endowed Scholarship (RELS)
Cecil Lytle plays this concert.
The first 21 minutes or so are the Gurdjieff hymns with the De Hartmann transcriptions.
The introduction, of course, is BWV 639 Ich Ruf Zu Dir, by J.S. Bach with the Busoni transcription.
