Robert Earl Burton founded the Fellowship of Friends, a school of spiritual development in the Fourth Way Tradition, which has been taught in this century by G.I. Gurdjieff and P.D. Ouspensky. The Fourth Way is based on individual verification and understanding, as well as on personal transmission.

Self-Remembering presents the results of a lifetime dedicated to this discipline — the essential practice of virtually all spiritual traditions. While Burton has brought the influence of dozens of teachers, artists and cultural figures into his work, it will be clear to every reader that his teaching is a product of his own direct experience with the realm of the miraculous and his knowledge is the result of his own self-perfection. Here he shows the relation of self-remembering, similar to Buddhist mindfulness and Orthodox non-attachment, to every aspect of the student's life and work. Unique in the spiritual literature, Self-Remembering is destined to become a classic.