Classics in Religion

Description

On these three Mondays in September, members of the Folk Art Guild in Middlesex will present a series on the teaching brought by George Ivanovitch Gurdjieff.  The Penn Yan Public Library, 214 Main Street, provides the site for this sequence, in the ongoing program Classics in Religion.  Gurdjieff was an influential spiritual master in touch with an ancient knowledge, who gathered people around him in the first half of the 20th century.   Since his passing in 1949, groups have actively worked with his rich legacy, which includes music, published writings, a study of movement, and an oral tradition.  His fundamental aim was to help human beings awaken to the meaning of our existence and to the efforts we must make to realize that meaning in the midst of the life we have been given.