“Man’s possibilities are very great. You cannot conceive even a shadow of what man is capable of attaining. But nothing can be attained in sleep.”
“Awakening begins when a man realizes that he is going nowhere and does not know where to go.”
Welcome
The Gurdjieff Foundation of Illinois is located in Chicago, and has had a long association with the Gurdjieff Foundation of New York.
The Foundation exists to provide conditions, for those who wish, to obtain real knowledge of oneself. A path to this knowledge was directly transmitted by G. I. Gurdjieff to his students, and from his students to their students.
The forms and conditions of work include group meetings, sittings/meditations, Movements, readings and discussions, music, and practical activities such as crafts, gardening, construction, and cooking. All work is a means for obtaining knowledge of oneself and the world in which we live.