George Gurdjieff

George Ivanovich Gurdjieff was an influential teacher-practitioner towards self-knowledge.
Gurdjieff was born in Alexandrapol, Armenia. Gurdjieff taught that most people do not possess a unified consciousness and thus live their lives in a state of hypnotic "waking sleep", but that it is possible to awaken to a higher state of consciousness and achieve full human potential. Gurdjieff described a method attempting to do so, calling the discipline "The Work" or "the System".
According to his principles and instructions,
Gurdjieff's method for awakening one's consciousness unites the methods of the fakir, monk and yogi, and thus he referred to it as the "Fourth Way".