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Over our five decades of publishing we have a wide variety of religious and philosophical traditions. Besides the distinct categories linked below, you will find on this page books related to Gurdjieff and the Fourth Way, Hermetica, shamanism,  Krishnamurti, and more.

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Krishnamurti Answer to 'Who Are You?'

J. Krishnamurti (1895–1986) is regarded as one of the greatest thinkers and religious teachers of the twentieth century. He did not expound any philosophy or religion, but rather talked of the things that concern us in our everyday lives, of the problems of living in modern society with its violence and corruption, of the individual's search for security and happiness, and the need for mankind to free itself from inner burdens of fear, anger, hurt, and sorrow. He explained with great precision the subtle workings of the mind, and pointed to the need for bringing to our daily lives a deeply meditative and spiritual quality.

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From the Foreword of The Reality of Being: The Fourth Way of Gurdjieff

George Ivanovitch Gurdjieff (1866–1949) regarded knowl­edge of reality—what he called true "knowledge of being"—as a stream flowing from remote antiquity, passed on from age to age, from people to people, from race to race. He viewed this knowledge as the indis­pensable means to achieve inner freedom, liberation. For those who seek to understand the meaning of human life in the universe, he said, the aim of the search is to break through to this stream, to find it. Then there remains only "to know" in order "to be." But in order to know, he taught, it is necessary to find out "how to know."

Gurdjieff respected traditional religions and practices concerned with spiritual transformation, and pointed out that their different ap­proaches could be subsumed

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From the Foreword to the Reality of Being: The Fourth Way of Gurdjieff

From the Foreword to the Reality of Being: The Fourth Way of Gurdjieff

George Ivanovitch Gurdjieff (1866–1949) regarded knowl­edge of reality—what he called true "knowledge of being"—as a stream flowing from remote antiquity, passed on from age to age, from people...

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