The Evolution of Consciousness – Realising Human Potential | with OM C. Parkin and Robin Bloor
Meeting with Teachers
Fri – Sun, October 10 – 12, 2025 | Gut Saunstorf Monastery – Place of Stillness
Following the successful event in early summer 2024, the exploration of the Fourth Way with OM C. Parkin and Robin Bloor will continue and deepen. Robin Bloor, director of the Gurdjieff Society in Austin (Texas), teaches in the direct lineage of Gurdjieff and will once again be travelling from the USA for this event.
The focus of this extended weekend will be on the evolution of consciousness in the context of the Fourth Way: ‘What is the full potential of being human, and how can it be realised?’
Further information will follow soon.
True spirituality, which transforms the personal world of the ego, begins where
the teaching and thinking of the ego-mind reaches its limits.
OM C. Parkin
Guidance
OM C. Parkin
OM C. Parkin is a spiritual master, mystic, philosopher and book author. He is the initiator of the OM Foundation Inner Science, director of the Mystery School Enneallionce - School for Inner Work and founder of the modern Monastery Gut Saunstorf - Place of Stillness.
The teaching of the Silent Tradition, which he also calles Inner Science, is based on the one hand on the Eastern advaitatradition (teaching of non-duality, best known representative in the West is Ramana Maharshi), as well as on the teachings of the Integral Yoga of the Indian sage Aurobindo Ghose, and on the other hand on Western paths of experience (e.g. Christian mysticism, Georges I. Gurdjieff: The Fourth Way).
Robin Bloor
Robin Bloor was born in 1951 in Liverpool, UK. He obtained a BSc in Mathematics at Nottingham University and took up a career in the computer industry, initially writing software, and eventually becoming a consultant, and author. He currently resides in and works from Austin, Texas in the USA.
In 1988, Bloor met and became a pupil of Rina Hands. Rina was a one-time associate of J. G. Bennett, a student of Peter Ouspensky, and later, a pupil of George Gurdjieff, and Jeanne de Salzmann. She led groups both in London, where she lived, and in Bradford in the North of England. She was an outstanding movements teacher and an inspirational group leader. She died in 1994 and is buried next to Jane Heap (another first rank pupil of Gurdjieff) in a cemetery in North London.
Bloor leads a regular group, The Austin Gurdjieff Society, in Austin, Texas. He produces a monthly newsletter, The Lost Herald and runs the website, ToFathomTheGist.com. He also organises multiple on-line study groups to study Gurdjieff’s writings and Gurdjieff’s Objective Science (as articulated by Ouspensky in In Search of the Miraculous, and by Gurdjieff himself in The Tales).
Practical information
Times
Day of arrival Fri, October 10
Check in for board & lodging: 3:00 – 4:30 pm
Check in for the event: 4:00 – 5:30 pm
Start with the common dinner: 6 pm
You can plan your departure on Sunday around 2.00 pm, after lunch together.
This event is bilingual (German/English).
Event contribution
€ 240,-
At this event, the ticket price is supported by the Foundation.
Reduction available on request.
You will receive more detailed information on payment with your registration confirmation.
Board & Lodging
Your board and lodging at Gut Saunstorf Monastery must be booked separately using the following booking form, which you will also receive with your registration confirmation by e-mail.
Venue
Gut Saunstorf Monastery - Place of Stillness
Am Gutspark
D-23996 Saunstorf
www.monastery-saunstorf.com
The modern Monastery Gut Saunstorf - Place of Stillness, located near the German city of Schwerin, is dedicated to retreat and contemplation. It invites seekers of every confession and tradition to rediscover their own inner stillness in meetings with OM C. Parkin, at events or simply in a time of introspection and meditation.
Following Gurdjieff’s Footsteps
Interview with Robin Bloor
In this interview Robin Bloor tells us how he came into contact with the work and became a student, how the succession of Gurdjieff disciples is doing and what he sees as Gurdjieff’s intention for humanity.
