1. Encounter at Mirtola 
Sathya Sai Baba. An atheist in Chicago. H.P. Blavatsky. Stanzas of Dzyan. At the Mirtola ashram. Madhava Ashish. G. I. Gurdjieff. Krishna Prem. Yashoda Mai.

2. The Self and a Saints’ Gallery 
Initiation into Yoga. The Self. Esoteric dream work. Nisarga Datta. Sathya Sai Baba. In Search of the Miraculous. G.I. Gurdjieff. Meetings with Remarkable Men. In search of the secret Sarmoung Brotherhood. Madhava Ashish and ecology in the hills. The soul of India. Seminar. Raj and Romesh Thapar.

3. Esoteric Dreams and Awakenings 
Esoteric dream work guidelines. Gurdjieff’s states of consciousness. Self-remembering. The Four Ways. A day in the life of the Mirtola ashram.

4. The Unimportance of Being Seymour 
Gurdjieff groups. Observation and verification. Secrecy and hierarchies in groups. Difficulties of the Work and going inward. G group vs. dream work. Pitfalls of reading. The Self is not Sy. Further doubts.

5. The Value of Uncertainty by Sri Madhava Ashish 

6. The Reflected Glory of Objective Consciousness 
Meeting Jeanne de Salzmann. Hierarchies in the groups. Objective consciousness. Lizelle Reymond. Krishnamurti. A meeting of Selves. Pamela Travers.

7. Soul Farmer of the Everglades 
Pros and cons of rural living. Founding a semi-rural Work center. Constructive imagination. Teaching. Gurdjieffian friction. First, second and third lines of work. Self-observation. "Stop" exercises. Gurdjieff Movements. More doubts. Advantages of group Work. Speaking in the present. On G group vs. dream work.

8. Masters Within and Without 
Theosophical roots of Mirtola. Hierarchy of Masters. Secret Sarmoung Brotherhood. Masters within. Esoteric centers. "Guardians of the truth." Contacting the essence of Gurdjieff. Djwhal Khul. The sun as logos. Recognizing the Master.

9. The Uninitiated 
Dr. Chakravarti on initiation. Mild rebuffs from Ashish. Ashish gives me an amulet. On reincarnation. Instruction manual for self-initiation. Experiments in living at Mirtola. Raj and Romesh Thapar.

10. The Guru as Exemplar of and Guide to the Term of Human Evolution by Sri Madhava Ashish 

11. Pastor: Meetings with a Remarkable Channeled Entity 
Charlaine, channel. Carl. Varying natures of channeled entities. Pitfalls of channeling. On reincarnation. Brian Weiss’s Many Lives, Many Masters. With Nick T. in Geneva: Pastor on Gurdjieff’s stature, past lives and on calling Gurdjieff.

2. Beelzebub’s Tales to His Grandson 
Gurdjieff’s sci-fi space opera/allegory. Beelzebub on Mars. G’s expanded organs of perception. Resemblances to Blake’s poetry. An esoteric vision of man’s fall. Finnegan’s Wake. "Burying the dog." Birth of the moon and its feeding by mankind. Pastor on Gurdjieff’s astral planes. Analogies to Loosh and UFOs.

13. Matters of Life and Death 
On meditation. What is Gurdjieff’s teaching? G’s car accident. Future of the G. Work and the Theosophical Society. On death: The Tibetan Book of the Dead and Carl Jung’s near-death experience. Metanoia. Putting oneself in another’s position.

14. A Return to Intelligent Inquiry by Sri Madhava Ashish 

15. What Can Be Taught by Sri Madhava Ashish 

16. The Passing of a Great Soul 
Illness of Ashish. Growing discord in India. Deepening of Ashish’s teachings. Ashish and Prem on reincarnation. Passing of Ashish. Comet in the skies.

A Short Compendium 
Ancestor Worship. Consciousness. A Course in Miracles. Diet. Entities, Alien and Other. Guidance, Spirit. Kailash, Mount. Nature Images. Nothingness, Bare. Psychological Aspects. Ramana Maharshi. Ritual Magic. Sex on the Path. Teacher.

APPENDIX:   Masters 

Works Cited/Bibliography 

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