Robin Bloor was born in 1951 in Liverpool, UK. He obtained a BSc in Mathematics at Nottingham University and took up a career in the computer industry, initially writing software. From 1989 onwards, he became a technology analyst and consultant. He has thus been a writer, author and blogger of a kind ever since. In 2002, he was awarded an honorary Ph.D. in Computer Science by Wolverhampton University in the UK for "services to the UK computer industry."In 1988, after drifting through several work groups, Bloor met and became a pupil of Rina Hands. Rina was a one-time associate of J. G. Bennett, a student of Peter Ouspensky's, and later, a pupil of George Gurdjieff. Following Gurdjieff's death, she remained part of J. G. Bennett's group for a while. Subsequently, she formed groups both in London, where she lived, and in Bradford in the North of England - initially in conjunction with Madame Nott. She was both an accomplished movements teacher and an inspirational group [...]'s respect for Rina Hands is hard to overstate. She was a powerful teacher with few equals in the Gurdjieff line. It was because of her influence that he became a devoted student of Gurdjieff's writings and of objective science. Rina died in 1994 and is buried in a grave adjacent to that of Jane Heap in a cemetery in North [...] 2002 Bloor emigrated to the United States. He currently resides in Austin, Texas from where he runs a Gurdjieff Group, the Austin Gurdjieff Society. He is also a member of a UK group, The Bradford Gurdjieff Society, which was, in times past, run by Rina Hands.