Inner Octaves. Testimony of a Student of G.I. Gurdjieff

Michel Conge was a biologist and a doctor. In 1944, while working at the Institut Pasteur in Paris, he met the writer René Daumal, who introduced him to Jeanne de Salzmann. She soon included him in meetings with G.I.Gurdjieff, with whom he continued to work until Gurdjieff's death in 1949. Encouraged by Gurdjieff and de Salzmann, Conge, with his wife Gilles began to gather a nucleus of seekers of truth whose search he accompanied and led until 1984, the year of his death. The chapters in this book originate mainly from their exchanges.