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, and eventually becoming a consultant, author and blogger. He currently resides in and works from Austin, Texas in the USA.In 1988, 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. She led groups both in London, where she lived, and in Bradford in the North of England-initially in conjunction with Rosemary Nott. She was an outstanding movements teacher and an inspirational group leader. She died in 1994 and is buried next to Jane Heap in a cemetery in North London.Bloor leads a group, The Austin Gurdjieff Society, in Austin, Texas. He produces a monthly newsletter, The Lost Herald and runs the website, ToFathomTheGist.com. He also organizes on-line multiple study groups to study Gurdjieff's writings and Gurdjieff's Objective Science (as articulated by Ouspensky in In Search of The Miraculous, and by Gurdjieff himself in The Tales). Bloor has written or edited eight books about the Gurdjieff Work.