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===Travels===
In early adulthood, according to his own account, Gurdjieff's search for such knowledge led him to travel widely to [[Central Asia]], Egypt, Iran, India, Tibet and other places before he returned to Russia for a few years in 1912. He was never forthcoming about the source of his teaching, which he once labelled as [[esoteric Christianity]]; and it can be compared to biblical references to 'sleep,' the need to keep 'watch' (for one knows not the time or the hour); and that 'the Kingdom of Heaven' is within.<ref>p.109 from "In Search of the Miraculous": for the benefit of those who know
already, I will say that, if you like, this is esoteric Christianity.</ref> The only account of his wanderings appears in his book ''[[Meetings with Remarkable Men]]'', which is not generally considered to be a reliable or straightforward autobiography.<ref>S. Wellbeloved, ''Gurdjieff, Astrology and Beelzebub's Tales'', pp. 9–13</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.gurdjieff.org/owens2.htm |title=T. W. Owens, Commentary on Meetings with Remarkable Men |publisher=Gurdjieff.org |date=2000-04-01 |access-date=2014-03-02}}</ref> Each chapter is named after a "remarkable man", some of whom were putative members of a society called "The Seekers of Truth".
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