George Ivanovitch Gurdjieff (1872–1949) Seminal spiritual figure, introduced to the West an ancient yet unknown esoteric teaching of development and awakening, one that teaches how to creatively use the diverse impressions of ordinary life to come to real life. Humanity, Gurdjieff realized, had entered a precarious new period in its evolution. The world would be destroyed, Gurdjieff warned, unless the ‘wisdom’ of the East and […]
Osho In 1991, I moved to Marin County, California, ‘sannyas’ *capitol of the West Coast At the time, I knew absolutely nothing about Rajneesh except that he was the guru with all the Rolls Royces. I didn’t pay much attention to stories about Rajneesh until I ended up with a broken back (a whole other story […]
J. Krishnamurti Jiddu Krishnamurti (May 1895 – February 17, 1986) was an Indian speaker and writer on philosophical and spiritual subjects. In his early life he was groomed to be the new World Teacher but later rejected this mantle and disbanded the organisation behind it [the Order of the Star]. . . . He claimed allegiance to no […]
The Masters of Our Time – dafreesan I discovered this article by dafreesan while looking for information about known Spiritual Masters. I couldn’t help but notice that this article had only 6 likes (one of them mine) and this author had 16 followers. I’m glad I came upon this article and could repost these quotes. They brought me […]