Will Mesa has spent 40 years studying the teaching of G.I. Gurdjieff. Dr. Mesa spent three years with a group led by Henri Tracol in Paris, and seven years with the groups of Nathalie Ethievan in Venezuela. He is the author of over 20 papers on Beelzebub's Tales published in journals including Stopinder, and more than 50 articles. He has presented papers at the All and Everything International Humanities Conference in Canterbury, England and Salem, Massachusetts, and the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion (SSSR) in the United States.