Dancing Mechanism: on the Context of Gurdjieff's Sacred Movements

The current study is devoted to G. Gurdjieff and the intellectual context of his esoteric ideas influenced many artists of the 20th century. The study is an analysis of Gurdjieff's esoteric system and a search for possible sources which the spiritual teacher might be directly or indirectly familiar with. The context where the Gurdjieff system was formed is mainly associated with the development of psychology and a high interest in the structure of the human psyche. In the 20th century the inner world of a person is becoming the subject of interest, on the one hand, for psychologists, on the other hand, for artists and esotericists who were trying to find new perspectives in understanding human and his future. Gurdjieff is an example of a mystic whose system was based on some popular scientific theories and existing aesthetic programs.