Meetings with Remarkable Men Archives

Impressions as Food

February 12, 2024 by Roberta Chromey

Impressions as food, in the way that Gurdjieff talks about it, has become a focus for me. I was especially struck by a story in the last chapter of Meetings With Remarkable Men. In this chapter, Gurdjieff recounts his on-going struggles with financing his enterprise. The strain he puts himself under to do this results … Read more

Transmitting What We Understand

November 1, 2021October 4, 2021 by Roberta Chromey

Illustrating the parable that transmitting understanding is not the same as sharing knowledge

Knowledge vs Understanding Transmitting understanding is not the same as sharing knowledge. What, then, is understanding? And how do we convey it? Many of us sense an urgency towards the end of our lives to pass on what we have learned. In Meetings with Remarkable Men, Gurdjieff addresses the problem of trying to transmit to others … Read more