• WITNESS ~ Postscript, April 1971

    March 8, 2023 /

    WITNESS In 1971, the original Hodder & Stoughton edition of Witness having gone out of print, the publishing rights reverted to the author. By this time, Coombe Springs Press was set up for medium-sized print projects and Bennett asked Brian…

  • December 2022 Newsletter

    December 11, 2022 /

      Ben Bennett writes:   This book is to be considered as a series of footnotes to my father’s autobiographical accounts, and not a retelling of his story. My sources are primarily his own published writing, in addition to which…

  • May 21, 2022 /

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  • February 2022 the occasional newsletter

    February 20, 2022 /

    EXCERPT FROM NEWSLETTER:J.G. Bennett Archives When John Bennett died in 1974, he had a mass of papers gathered over a period of more than 50 years. His widow Elizabeth inherited all his private and professional papers but did not have…

  • Gotham Book Mart, June 1, 1971 NYC J.G. Bennett

    May 9, 2020 /

    “We have a time in front of us that we have to live through, and it is the next fifty years that will be critical. It is wise to look at the fifty years that are coming as a whole,…

  • Uploaded documents from the April 2020 Newsletter

    April 28, 2020 /

    NEWSLETTER SPRING 2020 – INTRODUCTION   On New Year’s Eve of 1949, nine weeks after the death of Gurdjieff, John Bennett was in New Jersey, staying at the home of Mme. Ouspensky, and on that afternoon he met with her…

  • April 28, 2019 /

    “To know means to know all. Not to know all means not to know. It is possible to know all, and, indeed, to know all it is needful to know very little. But in order to know this very little,…

  • Gurdjieff: Making a New World, Appendix II; The Great Laws

    October 14, 2018 /

    Appendix IIThe Great Laws           Ben Bennett, with the assistance of Victor McSurely have made a recorded reading of “Appendix II – The Great Laws” Here is the link to the audio recording: You can download the audio…

  • New Edition of The Masters of Wisdom

    August 14, 2018 /

    THE MASTERS OF WISDOMJ.G. Bennett In 1961, John Bennett travelled to Kathmandu to meet the 135-year-old sage known as the Shivapuri Baba, and the following year he made a second nine months before the old man’s final departure. At the…

  • The Masters of Wisdom: quote

    May 22, 2018 /

    “ We human beings have a deep awareness, deeper than egoism itself, of our kinship with nature. We feel that creativity without love is daemonic, but we are forced to recognise that love has no power to overcome egoism. Life…

  • Excerpt of a talk by John G Bennett May 16, 1970

    March 3, 2018 /

    This is the last ten minutes of a recording made with Olga de Nottbeck on May 16, 1970 to be mailed to groups in New York and Finland. JGB proposes a group task that we can actually all work on…

  • Quote from the Dramatic Universe Vol I

    December 17, 2017 /

    (click image for a larger view) “It is now possible to define three gradations of true individuality. The first is that in which the entity can be conscious of its own genetic constitution and direct its activity according to this…

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