The Masters Speak: An American Businessman Encounters Sri Madhava Ashish and G.I. Gurdjieff
By Seymour B Ginsburg
‘If you want to pursue in a Western way the path that we follow here at Mirtola, you need to study and work with the Gurdjieffian teaching.’

Thus did the guru Madhava Ashish, at their first meeting, invite American businessman Sy Ginsburg on a spiritual journey that would last 19 years (until the guru’s death) and include both annual visits to Sri Madhava Ashish’s Mirtola ashram, near Almora in India's Himalayan foothills, and a lengthy correspondence. Along the way, the entrepreneur/author would not only pursue the teachings of G. I. Gurdjieff, but also the fundamental search for the elusive Unitive Vision – the world viewed from the perspective of the greater Self and not the personality. In this remarkable spiritual document, the reader shares the search, increasingly catching glimpses of the unitive vision as the book draws towards a close that is also an opening out, into the vaster dimensions of the human mind.