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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  George Ivanovich Gurdjieff was born sometime between 1866 and 1877 and spent his life insisting that human beings live in a trance. As a philosopher, spiritual teacher, and composer, he developed techniques — including a discipline of sacred movements — meant to jolt students into a higher state of consciousness and reconnect them with their actual purpose. His student P. D. Ouspensky systematized the approach as the "Fourth Way." When Gurdjieff died in October 1949, his close pupil Jeanne de Salzmann took the lead, founding the Gurdjieff Foundation in Paris and guiding it until 1990; her son Michel continued until 2001. Today an international network of foundations in France, the U.S., the U.K., and Venezuela carries the work forward.