In Search of the Miraculous

In Search of the Miraculous: Fragments of an Uknown Teaching by P. D. Ouspensky recollects the teachings of an individual who he only refers to as "G." whom he met in St. Petersburg before the Russian Revolution and who he follows through the Caucasian mountains to Constantinople (present day Istanbul) and then to western Europe and Ouspensky's ambivalent relationship with "G." leading to his break with him.

Originally published at the time of G. I. Gurdjieff's death and authorized by Gurdjieff it is considered the best exposition of the structure of Gurdjieff's ideas on consciousness, the three brained nature of human beings and his cosmological structure of the universe as nested worlds. One of the few books that can be considered of sufi origin that has an index.