Author: Patterson, William Patrick

Like both its predecessors in the trilogy The Life and Significance of George Ivanovitch Gurdjieff, this film won a major award for Biography at the WorldFest International Film Festival.
Shot on site in France, England and the United States. Explores Gurdjieff's struggle to establish the ancient teaching of the Fourth Way in the West, documenting his near-fatal car crash, the creation of "All and Everything, " the German occupation of Paris and Gurdjieff's visit to Lascaux caves. Major tenets of the teaching and critical new information on his relationships with P. D. Ouspensky, A. R. Orage, J. G. Bennett and Lord John Pentland are explored.
"For years now, Patterson has been the most interesting and substantial of Gurdjieff's biographers. Gurdjieff's Legacy is absolutely gripping, the best yet. "
-Colin Wilson