James George has known a number of remarkable people and has lived in some of the world's most interesting countries. Tee Dalai Lama calls him "my old friend." Chogyam Trungpa called him "a wise and benevolent man, an ideal statesman." He is credited with having helped to avert a war between India and Pakistan in 1971. And now he shares what he can of his practice of the Gurdjieff way towards awakening to the present moment that has been the inner thread of his life for five decades-the awareness of the consciousness that is omnipresent and universal. He is the author of Asking for the Earth: Waking Up to the Spiritual/Ecological Crisis (1995), and The Little Green Book on Awakening (2008).