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George Ivanovich Gurdjieff was a Greco-Armenian mystic and spiritual teacher of what came to be called "the Work" or "The Fourth Way", in which he taught people how to increase and focus their attention and energy through various awareness exercises. According to his teachings, such inner development is the beginning of a possible further process of change, and spiritual evolution. The author leads us on extraordinary adventures which redefine the ordinary concepts of reality, consciousness, and human knowledge-adventures that shed a new, and at times, disquieting, light on Sufism, Zen, Yoga, The Fourth Way, and intimately, the Work itself. Nothing achieves its highest value until delivered to the place it is needed most. One of humanity's grand illusions is that men need help, and perhaps the grandest of them all is-- that they can be. All books are works of fiction and this one is no different in that respect." The topic is consciousness; the tools are metaphor and symbolism, and the literary technique is author surrogate-- the author uses the figure of Gurdjieff to speak his own understandings to present-day readers with his own unique terms.