GURDJIEFF'S INVENTION OF AMERICA
384 pages, large format (16 x 23 cm) paperback
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Gurdjieff’s Invention of America, a revised version
of the author’s earlier Gurdjieff’s America, traces
Gurdjieff’s engagement with three “Americas.”

The first, unveiled to him when still young,
was Thomas Edison’s America of energetic
technology and inventiveness.
The second, gleaned through cultural contacts with
Americans abroad, was a society and culture in a
still formative stage.

Then, in the course of eight visits to the United States he constructed an idea of America
as a moral and cultural model for a renewal of human consciousness worldwide. The
characteristics of this triadic America are indicated eloquently in Gurdjieff’s “Beelzebub in
America,” the longest chapter in All and Everything. His penetrating insight into the
negative and positive aspects of America there rings as true at the dawn of the twenty-first
century as it did in the middle of the twentieth.

Significant to Gurdjieff’s success in disseminating his ideas throughout the United States
was the number of fruitful contacts he made with Americans, particularly the friendships
he forged with his appointed American deputies A. R. Orage and N. J. Toomer, both of
whom gathered hundreds of followers to Gurdjieff’s ideas in New York and Chicago,
bases for the future development of current thriving teaching centers in America.