Jerry Brewster

This book is a record of one and a half years of workdays at the Group s Loft workspace in lower Manhattan during the late 1980 s and early 1990 s. It is documentation of the way Jerry worked with his groups during that time. Every generation must find a new way of working. What woke up one generation will not necessarily wake up the next. When we came to the work these ideas were new and fresh - now the ideas are taught in psychology classes in universities. But there is a process to waking up and rules that govern it. Gurdjieff says ""Many alarm clocks are necessary and always new ones."" This book is a testament to the practice of these rules. The fourth way requires working together, working on yourself, and making the ideas your own.

Jerry Brewster was a group leader of the Gurdjieff Work in New York City. He studied personally with Mrs. Sutta, Christopher Fremantle, Mme, de Hartmann, Mme. de Salzmann, Henri Tracol and Michel de Salzmann. He followed the teachings of G. I. Gurdjieff; better known today as "The Fourth Way." He devoted over 50 years of his life to the practice and teaching of what has become known as the 'Work' and made great efforts to expand the understanding of it. Jerry's view of the work was very scientific, hence the name Spiritual Physics which he suggested before his death in 2009. There is a chapter in this book that introduces Jerry's personal search to understand the Enneagram.