Russian mathematician and spiritual sidekick to G. I.
Gurdjieff. Author of
Tertium Organum, "A key to the enigmas of the world",
In Search of the Miraculous, "
Fragments of an unknown teaching, and the
Fourth Way among others.
Ouspensky was able to explain Gurdjieff's ideas more clearly. A key technique in the Fourth Way is "remembering yourself" at all times.
His only novel, "Strange Life of Ivan Osokin", is about a man who discovers that he is living the same life over and over.