Introducing the Ideas of G.I. Gurdjieff: Impressions of Truth in the Human Mass, Los Angeles, 1960
John Pentland
John Pentland was a student of the Ouspenskys, Gurdjieff, and Madame Jeanne de Salzmann, and was instrumental in spreading Gurdjieff's teaching throughout the United States. He was president of the Gurdjieff Foundation of New York from its inception in 1953 until his death in 1984. This is the first in a series of introductory talks given in various locations and followed by question-and-answer sessions. Here we find John Pentland's unique way of expressing himself, with a certain transparency emerging in the exchanges between different levels of experience.