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Conversations with Madame Ouspensky

Compiled and edited by
Dorothy Darlington

Gurdjieff Heritage Society

Copyright 2021 by D. Darlington and C. Smith

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This book provides entirely new source material for the Gurdjieff Work. It is an authentic transcription of talks given by Madame Ouspensky to her group at Mendham, distilled from notes taken by her pupils at the time.

Students of Gurdjieff’s Fourth Way know little about Madame Ouspensky’s thought or teaching because she left no written body of work-although some of her sayings were recalled by Robert de Ropp in his short account of his time with her. That has been virtually the only material extant. Until now.

Now, an authentic transcription of talks given by Madame Ouspensky to her group at Mendham is published here by the Gurdjieff Heritage Society. The talks, distilled from pupils notes, have been painstakingly compiled and edited by the late Dorothy Darlington who spent years with Madame and Mr Ouspensky and who had a special affinity with Madame.

COPYRIGHT 2021 by D. Darlington and C. Smith
The authors assert their moral rights in the work. Originally published as an ebook by Buzzword Books, Australia, 2018 ISBN: 978-1-7368823-0-6
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Gurdjieff Heritage Society, Inc.

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Gurdjieff Heritage Society is focused on preserving source material from near and first generation students of Mr. Gurdjieff. We frequently receive offers of new collections and do our best with limited resources to add suitable material to the archive and make new documents and collections available to members.

In this direction we are sharing a list of documents recently activated in the archive. The set includes material from important figures in the work including Tom Daly, Irmis Popoff, Lord Pentland, Helen Adie, Sophie Ouspensky, and others. Click “GHS newly activated documents” to download the complete list.

We would also bring your attention to several complete collections added to the archive in the past months.

The Katherine Breithaupt Archive

Katherine Rodomar Breithaupt was a member of Lord Pentland’s Group in New York in the 1950s. She took part in “The Movements” when they were staged at Carnegie Hall, and spent many work weekends at Mendham. She was a close friend of both Jessmin and Dushka Howarth. Her collection contains early copies of manuscripts and books, newspaper articles, notes, and a photo of Mdm. de Hartmann. This collection was donated to the GHS by her daughter, Kate Breithaupt.

The Gurdjieff Writings Archive

This collection contains material written by G.I. Gurdjieff. We have recently added an exact facsimile of the 1950 edition, which is also publicly available here.

The Muriel Draper Archive

Includes correspondence, photographs, and manuscripts from the collection of a primary American student of Gurdjieff.

The Paul and Naomi Anderson Archive

Members of the Orage groups in New York, Paul and Naomi Anderson were also with Gurdjieff at the Institute in France. Gurdjieff visited them in Washington, D.C. where they were instructed to organize and run groups. Among the original members of the Gurdjieff Foundation in New York, the Andersons later went their own way in keeping with their own instructions from Mr. Gurdjieff. This collection contains several of Mr. Anderson’s unpublished writings and talks.

To access these collections become a member of Gurdjieff Heritage Society. Your membership makes possible the work of our volunteer team in gathering and presenting these valuable materials. Please join us by applying on this page.

Wednesday 3rd May to Sunday 7th May, 2017 — Krokstad Herrgård Hotel, Säffle, Sweden

Below are the dates and times for Greg Loy’s presentations. Greg is President of the GHS and Publisher of the GIR.

Greg Loy: Presentation on behalf of Gurdjieff Heritage Society
Thursday, 4 May 2017 – 4:15 pm

Greg Loy: Presentation about the Gurdjieff International Review
Saturday, 6 May 2017 – 2:30 pm

Website at http://aandeconference.org/

Creator: Howarth, Dushka

Call number: (S) *MGZMD 412

Physical description: 23.85 linear feet (52 boxes, 3 volumes, 1 oversized folder); 14.5 Gigabytes (5131 computer files)

Preferred Citation: Howarth Gurdjieff Archive, (S) *MGZMD 412. Jerome Robbins Dance Division, The New York Public Library

Repository: Jerome Robbins Dance Division

Access to materials: Collection is open to the public. Library policy on photography and photocopying will apply. Advance notice may be required.Restrictions apply.

The Howarth Gurdjieff Archive holds Movement materials and writings collected by Dushka and Jessmin Howarth and the Gurdjieff Heritage Society to preserve the integrity of G.I. Gurdjieff’s teachings. The archive also holds Dushka and Jessmin Howarth’s personal papers and research for the book It’s Up To Ourselves: A Mother, A Daughter, and G.I. Gurdjieff: A Shared Memoir and Family Photo Album.

Funds for processing provided by the Gurdjieff Heritage Society, Inc.