Descriptions of G.I. Gurdjieff as a historic figure, his ideas and teaching, biographies and other related details. Gurdjieff brought a system of self-development to the West, known as Gurdjieff's Teaching, the Work or the Fourth Way.

P. D. Ouspensky was a Russian philosopher and journalist. He became a student of G.I. Gurdjieff and a teacher of the Fourth Way ideas.