James Moore (Cornish author)

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James Harry Manson Moore (born 16 December 1929 in Saltash, Cornwall,
United Kingdom) is a Cornish author.
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Contents
1 Biography
2 Works
3 References
4 External links
Biography
A fellow of the Royal Asiatic Society and leading authority on G. I. Gurdjie,
Moore became active in practical and thematic Gurdjie studies in 1956, after
studying with Kenneth Walker and later with Henriette H. Lannes ("Madame
Lannes") as his Gurdjiean teacher and mentor between October 1957 and
December 1978. His rst major study, Gurdjie and Manseld (1980), examines
the lives of Gurdjie and the noted short story writer Katherine Manseld.
Moore's thorough book lays to rest the persistent misconception that Gurdjie
was somehow responsible when Manseld, who arrived at Gurdjie's institute in
France suering from terminal tuberculosis and died within a few months while
still his guest.
From 1981 to 1994, Moore was responsible for gathering and leading new
students in the Gurdjie Society in London. He contributed to research for the
363 page "Gurdjie: an Annotated Bibliography" (1985) compiled by J. Walter
Driscoll and the Gurdjie Foundation of California. During this period he was also
a pupil of Henri Tracol and Maurice Desselle.
A confessed admirer of Gurdjie and active Gurdjiean for his entire adult life,
Moore is the author of the biography, Gurdjie: The Anatomy of a Myth (1991) It
was republished in 1999 with a revised introduction, under the title Gurdjie: A
biography.
In 1994 Moore published "Moveable Feasts: the Gurdjie Work" in "Religion
Today," challenging certain signicant innovations in Gurdjiean theory and
practice introduced worldwide by Jeanne de Salzmann, the Gurdjie Foundation's
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de facto leader. (See external links for text of this article.) Since his departure
from the Foundation's Gurdjie Society in London, Moore has since led an
independent Gurdjie Studies group.
In Gurdjiean Confessions (2005), Moore briey sketches his personal life and
provides candid and vivid glimpses of his 38 years as a member of The Gurdjie
Society in London, between 1956 to 1994.
In 2011 Moore published "Eminent Gurdjieans: Lord Pentland." John Pentland
was Henry John Sinclair, 2nd Baron Pentland (19071984). Moore's 100 page
biography is written in the style of Lytton Strachey's compact 1918 classic
"Eminent Victorians." John Pentland was a follower of P. D. Ouspensky for more
than a decade then associated with G. I. Gurdjie in Paris during his last two
years, 1948-1949. Lord Pentland was President of the Gurdjie Foundation of
New York between its founding in 1953 and his death in 1984.
James Moore currently resides in London.
Works
(1980) Gurdjie and Manseld
(1991) Gurdjie: The Anatomy of a Myth, ISBN 1-85230-450-2
(2005) Gurdjiean Confessions: a self remembered
(2011) Eminent Gurdjieans: Lord Pentland ISBN 0-9549470-1-0
References
^ "IN DEFENSE OF A GURU" (http://www.nytimes.com/1981/01/25/books/in-defense-
of-a-guru.html). The New York Times. 25 January 1981. p. 22. Retrieved 5 July 2012.
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External links
James Moore's website (http://www.jamesmoore.org.uk/)
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Moveable Feasts: the Gurdjie Work, rst published in Religion Today, Vol. IX
No. 2, Spring 1994
Gurdjie Studies Group (http://www.gurdjie.org.uk/index.html)
http://www.gurdjie.org.uk/GurdjieBrill.htm Moore's concise encyclopedia
article on Gurdjie
Moore's article "P. D. Ouspensky: an Appreciation"
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(http://www.ouspensky.org.uk/)
gurdjie-bibliography.com contains several articles by James Moore, excerpts
from his books and a bibliography of his Gurdjiean writings
(http://www.gurdjie-bibliography.com/)
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