Without Benefit of Clergy

As a young man Frank Sinclair looked for and found the teaching of G.I.Gurdjieff in Cape Town South Africa some seven years after Gurdjieffs death. Moved by his first encounter with Gurdjieffs chief pupil Madame Jeanne de Salzmann at Franklin Farms the old Ouspensky estate at Mendham New Jersey he extended his original two-month visit to the United States into a stay that has lasted more than 45 years. In this brief memoir he describes some unusual events surrounding the last days of Madame Ouspensky his own extraordinary experiences at Mendham and his subsequent work under the direct influence of Madame de Salzmann. He gives an intimate account of his lifelong search for meaning his relations with some unusual peopleseekers alland concludes with some random inferences about the state of the Work in the world today.