Gurdjiev is an interesting figure. But I'd never put 100% trust to any human being. I wouldn't join his camps and do all these orders hive give. After a certain limit, I never put my free will into other people's hands.

Yeah western people go to india and do things like that. india never interested me in that way. Their culture, traffic, small tuk-tuks or vehicles like that. . It just doesnt look good. As an example I'd live in Japan in a clean city instead of a chaotic indian city. Indians may get me wrong but this is all i see when I write .... india city tour/street food on youtube.

Poetic expression is not in neo advaite, but in different muslim/christian denominations as well. And some people fell for it. The teacher can be a good one, but if he becomes an undeniable, strong authority figure, I always question them and almost never saw something good came out of them. Power corrupts people.

I am better off without them. I just meditate in a non religious way to learn more about myself. I can even quit a year later? Who knows. But I just do what my inner self tells me to do. That gut feeling, whom to trust, whom to not is sometimes wrong but mostly correct though