Welcome to the Gurdjieff Society of Atlantic Canada

 Halifax, Nova Scotia

 

 

“There do exist enquiring minds, which long for the truth of the heart, seek it, strive to solve the problems set by life, try to penetrate to the essence of things and phenomena and to penetrate into themselves. If a man reasons and thinks soundly, no matter which path he follows in solving these problems, he must inevitably arrive back at himself, and begin with the solution of the problem of what he is himself and what his place is in the world around him.”

Gurdjieff, Views from the Real World

 

The Gurdjieff Society of Atlantic Canada, also called the Atlantic group, is a group of people in the Atlantic provinces who are engaged in the study and practice of the teaching of G.I. Gurdjieff, which is also called The Work or The Fourth Way.  We meet in Halifax from time to time and we are joined by others from elsewhere occasionally.  The Atlantic group was initially established, in 1970, by Dr. and Mrs. William J. Welch, from the New York Gurdjieff Foundation. The first teacher of Mrs. Welch in the Work was A. R. Orage. Later she, and still later Dr. Welch, worked directly with Gurdjieff. Please see Orage with Gurdjieff in America by Louis Welch and What Happened in Between: A Doctor's Story by William J. Welch. 

 

Dr. Welch attended Gurdjieff at his death-"the death of a man 'not in quotation marks.' And I have seen many men die." Dr. Welch was President of the New York Gurdjieff Foundation from 1984 until his death in 1997.

 

The Gurdjieff Society of Atlantic Canada is an independent non-profit organization informally associated with the Gurdjieff Foundation of New York which was established by Madame Jeanne de Salzmann and other pupils of Gurdjieff.  It is registered as a non-profit society under the laws of the Province of Nova Scotia as "The Gurdjieff Society of Atlantic Canada.”