James George is the author of Asking for the Earth: Waking up to the Spiritual/Ecological Crisis, which is prefaced by the Dalai Lama. As a Canadian Ambassador, Mr. George met many spiritual leaders in many countries. His book describes these meetings and relates the insights that resulted to the human and environmental issues of our time, and to his own 'search for meaning' during his forty-year 'apprenticeship' with Gurdjieff's successor, Jeanne de Salzmann. He has worked with the Gurdjieff Foundation of New York since the 1950's, and currently has groups in Philadelphia and Toronto.

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Barbara Wright, a writer and editor, left Colorado in 1961 to join a Gurdjieff group in San Francisco that was working under the guidance of John Pentland. Since 1969, Ms. Wright has been responsible for several different groups in San Francisco and Northern California, and for the past twenty years, has been one of the directors of the Gurdjieff Foundation of California. She traveled to Sydney, Australia during the 1970s to work with the Gurdjieff groups there, and has regularly visited Gurdjieff groups in Colorado since 1985 and, more recently, also works with a group in Toronto.