In October I started to read Life is real only then, when ' I am' by Gurdjieff
I really struggled with the material and felt I was not quite understanding the work, a friend suggested reading Struggle of the Magicians why Uspenskii left Gurdjieff by William Patrick Patterson. This book explores the Teacher-Student relationship and gives a chronological time line of the relationship between Gurdjieff and Uspenskii and the political events that were transpiring at the time. This book gave me a lot of insight and helped me understand Gurdjeiff's writing style and approach. I recommend this book as well as Meetings with Remarkable Men