WILLIAM PATRICK PATTERSON
is the founder/director of The Gurdjieff Studies Program.
For many years he has led groups, as well as given seminars
and talks throughout the United States.
Lord John Pentland, the remarkable man Gurdjieff chose to
lead the Work in America, was Mr. Patterson's primary teacher.
After many years of work and discovering no answer to the
question that had gradually formed in him—what is
the 'self' in self-remembering?—Mr. Patterson was
called to explore Advaita Vedanta (non-dualism). In doing
so, he realized the full significance of the ideas and practices
of The Fourth Way and how this sacred and seminal teaching
provided not only the necessary foundation, but was applicable
on the very highest levels.
Mr. Patterson has written
six books on the teaching and directed, written and narrated
the award-winning video trilogy The Life & Significance
of George Ivanovitch Gurdjieff:
Gurdjieff in Egypt,
Gurdjieff's Mission
and Gurdjieff's Legacy.
He is the founder/editor of
The Gurdjieff Journal (est. 1992), the first domestic and international Fourth Way journal.
In order to spread the teaching as fully as possible—Mr.
Gurdjieff's last wish—Mr. Patterson gives four public
seminars, two on the West Coast, two on the East Coast.
