Wanted: remarkable people

As a reader, given this context, you must be asking, Is it possible to have any impact on this ugly state of affairs? We believe it is possible, indeed necessary, with soulful leadership. But that kind of leadership requires a remarkable person—the kind of person that Gurdjieff described in his book Meetings with Remarkable Men. In his own words, Gurdjieff’s primary aim was to destroy mercilessly the beliefs and views rooted for centuries in the mind and feelings of man by arousing in the mind of the reader a stream of unfamiliar thoughts. Gurdjieff believed this kind of drastic action was required to free men and women from the habits, plagues, and fantastic distortions you read about from Camus, Nietzsche, and Reich. ...

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