Life Is Real Only Then, When "I Am"

Although this text is no more than a fragmentary and preliminary draft of what G. I. Gurdjieff intended to write for the Third Series, “Life Is Real Only Then, When I Am, ” his family feel obliged to obey our uncles wish, as he emphasized in his introduction, “to share with creatures similar to himself everything he had learned about the inner world of man.” We consider we are being faithful to his intention when he wrote the introduction and thus are also meeting the expectations of very many people interested in his teaching. “My last book, through which I wish to share with Other creatures of our Common Father similar to myself, almost all the previously unknown mysteries of the inner world of man which I have accidentally learned. “ Gurdjieff wrote these words on the 6th of November, 1934, and immediately started to work. For the next few months he devoted himself entirely to working out his ideas for this book.