Fourth Way books by William Patrick Patterson.
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Eating The “I”: An Account of The Fourth Way—The Way of Transformation in Ordinary Life
by William Patrick Patterson
Expanded edition. Includes a gallery of 17 paintings depicting different stages in the journey.
First modern book to show Gurdjieff Work in action. By a pupil of Lord John Pentland. “Vivid, rare insider’s account,”—Yoga Journal. “A classic of Gurdjieff literature.”—Syzygy. “Gives as full a picture of the Work as it may be possible to get without joining it . . . comes from a great depth and carries much conviction.”—Gnosis.
$20.00, 351 pp.
Ladies of the Rope: Gurdjieff’s Special Left Bank Women’s Group
by William Patrick Patterson
This is the first book to examine the Rope, the ladies-only group of spiritual seekers, all lesbians except one, that G.I. Gurdjieff formed on Paris’ Left Bank. During his thirty-seven years of work in the West, Gurdjieff’s creation of the Rope remains his most enigmatic. The conclusions reached by the author about why Gurdjieff created the Rope are as original as they are surprising and will be of serious interest to those involved with feminine spirituality in all its many forms.
$20.00, 302 pp.
Voices in the Dark: Esoteric, Occult & Secular Voices in Nazi-Occupied Paris 1940-44. Including transcripts from 31 of Gurdjieff’s wartime meetings.
by William Patrick Patterson
Voices in the Dark weaves together the oppression and fear of the Nazi Occupation of Paris with the transcripts from 31 of G.I. Gurdjieff’s wartime meetings. Voices that helped to mold the time speak out—Camus, Malraux, Sartre, Beauvoir, Gide, Daumal, de Gaulle, Churchill, Hitler, Stalin and many others. Explored in depth is the little-recognized but powerful influence of the pseudo-occult in the ideology at the foundation of Hitler’s vision.
$50.00 Softcover, 342 pp.
Photos, Maps, Notes, References, Bibliography & Index.
Spiritual Survival in a Radically Changing World-Time
by William Patrick Patterson
Spiritual Survival warns of Technology’s challenge and how it can spur us to awaken to a new integration of body, senses and mind. Explored in great and original depth is how the seminal teaching of G.I. Gurdjieff’s Fourth Way—the teaching for our time—offers the esoteric keys and practices to self-awakening in a radically changing, high voltage and mercurial world-time. First 300 copies are numbered and author-signed. No softcover will be published.
$25.00, Hardcover, 400 pages
Notes, Index, Bibliography
Georgi Ivanovitch Gurdjieff: The Man, The Teaching, His Mission
by William Patrick Patterson
The author’s ninth and final book on the Work is a comprehensive and factual account of Gurdjieff and The Fourth Way. Material from all of Gurdjieff’s direct students and their library archives, much of it not available until recently, is assembled in chronological form as it happened.The aim is to give an objective, panoramic view of Gurdjieff’s life, the inner substance of the seminal and scientific teaching of self-development he discovered, and his unrelenting mission to introduce and establish this esoteric teaching in the West.
Included are Uspenskii’s (original Russian spelling) never-before-published essays “Why I Left Gurdjieff” and “Where I Diverge from Gurdjieff”; original deleted material from Search; Uspenskii’s American femme fatale, Carman Barnes; Jessie Dwight Orage’s short stories “Elsie at the Prieur ” and “Elsie and Allah”; notes of Kathryn Hulme and Solita Solano (1935-39); The Science of Idiotism, and the complete scenario of Gurdjieff’s ballet, The Struggle of the Magicians.
$35.00, 6 x 9, Hardcover, sewn binding, 668 pp.
Essays, Notes, References, Bibliography, Photos, Index
Teachers of No-Thing & Nothing
by William Patrick Patterson
With this book, his tenth and last, William Patrick Patterson completes his spiritual memoir. Eating The “I”, the first part, published in 1992, focused on his experience with his teacher Lord John Pentland, the man Mr. Gurdjieff chose to lead The Fourth Way in America. Questioning what is the self in self-remembering brought Patterson to the Dane Alfred Sorensen, given the name “Sunyata” by Ramana Maharshi who saw him as a rare-born mystic. Sunyata told him, “The witness is a high state, but only a state.” Through Sunyata, he met Jean Klein, the European Advaita master who holds that “Absence is the greatest presence.”
$25.00, 280 pp.
Color photos, References, Bibliography, Index