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Synopsis
Imagine being thrown into a comic book
universe the moment you were born; a surreal universe where the people
around you ruled the world. That’s what happened to Remy C.
Remy was born with the weight of the
world on his shoulders. He has spent the last 30 years trying to drop-kick
the specter of his childhood. Born in Norwalk, Connecticut on April 2, 1953,
Remy was the grandson of new age magus, Georges Ivanovich Gurdjieff. Six
months later, Remy’s mother moved back to Paris with him to rejoin her
husband.
Remy’s father, Jean Chevalier, was a
famous photographer in the 50's and 60's, shooting covers and inside pictorials for ELLE, the
premier French fashion magazine. Remy
became a popular child model and appeared on advertisements and billboards
selling everything from spice bread to ravioli to soda pop all over the
country. His first haircut was a featured two page spread in ELLE.
As a young boy, Remy immediately came
under the wing of ELLE founder, Helene Gordon Lazareff, a very wealthy and
immensely influential woman, whose secret intentions were to raise Remy to
meet the destiny she and many others believed Gurdjieff had prescribed for
him in his opus Beelzebub’s Tales to his Grandson.
Years later, after Remy had eventually
been ignored, discarded and forgotten by all those whose fantasies he did
not fulfill, Remy saw a documentary on spiritual adept Jiddu Krishnamurti
that put his own early life in perspective.
Annie Besant, a disciple of Madame Blavatsky, had raised
Krishnamurti from childhood to be the heir to the Theosophical Society; in
other words a second coming of Christ. Krishnamurti
rebelled and struggled against that legacy his entire adult life. Remy saw
the parallels and found his way back from the mental and sexual abuse Helene
Lazareff put him through.
In this short book, illustrated with
many photographs, Gurdjieff’s Grandson has decided to finally open
up his memory banks and tell his story.
Welcome to Remy C’s nightmare ---
his ELLE on Earth!
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