"We must consider the possibility that the conviction expressed by gurus is less absolute than it appears in that thei…"

"Constructing or adopting a belief system in which one is either God's prophet or God himself inflates the ego to mons…"

"Gurdjieff then suddenly announced that he was going to Tuapse, on the Black Sea. The dutiful de Hartmanns followed. T…"

"Gurdjieff was a dictator. He had the capacity so completely to humiliate his disciples that grown men would burst int…"

"Reading his discourses made me realize that Rajneesh was a sad loss. He had an extraordinary range of knowledge and a…"

"In 20th-century England, an individual announcing that he was the son of God and would return after death in glory wo…"

"Few subsequent gurus seem to have matched the simplicity and directness of Jesus′s message; but it must be remembered…"

"The more I thought about it, the more obsessed I became with the idea of a swimming journey. I started to dream ever …"

"From water level, I observed the mating joined in flight like refuelling aircraft, and the random progress of the clo…"

"It is through trees that we see and hear the wind: woodland people can tell the species of a tree from the sound it m…"