The Great Game, the Vril-ya and Theosophy

[Helen Reyes]

I guess Gurdjieff and his Meetings with Remarkable Men need to be included somehow. He did go to the Oxus/Amu Darya River.

Yes,how about some more on Gurdjieff.If I remember during the Russian civil war he left with his adepts,and traveled to somewhere in Persia.Was that Turkish land or Iran?I believe he was studying the sufi mysteries.:joyman:

Yes, he went to the Oxus River which was the Afghan border I think. There are Sufi orders in extreme eastern Afghanistan, probably eslewhere too. Gurdjieff sort of left country names out as I recall, but gave enough placenames to follow along somewhat. And didn't he organize an expedition to the Gobi which ended in someone being fatally bitten by a wild camel? I need to track his routes down somehow. I wonder if he went through Kafiristan. I remember something about him painting swallows to sell as canaries in Boukhara when he ran out of money!