December 2022 Newsletter
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…
Uploaded documents from the April 2020 Newsletter
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…
Link to partial transcription of the Gotham Book Mart talk June 1, 1971
Link to download this talk here: Gotham Book Mart June 1, 1971
“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
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
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…
Presentations from Accessing the Dramatic Universe Conference 2011
We are pleased to announce we have uploaded 4 presentations from the "Accessing The Dramatic Universe" conference in 2011. Henri Bortoft Anthony 'Tony' Hodgson Ben Bennett Hajah Tetley You can listen to the presentations below in whole, or you may…
J.G. Bennett ~ 120th Anniversary ~ June 8, 1897
The picture of JGB with his hand under his chin always makes me smile, as I remember where and when it was taken. Hodder & Stoughton the publishers wanted a dust jacket portrait for Vol. 3 of Dramatic Universe, but…
Gurdjieff: Making a New World ~ 2016
I am not going to include this article in any JGB publication as it represents no more than my own thoughts after working carefully through his book over the past three months. When Bennett began work on this book, he…
MULLA NASSR EDDIN – In Beelzebub’s Tales to His Grandson, Ben Bennett
April 2016 I happened to meet John Amaral at Whole Foods in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and he mentioned that he was organizing the next one, and would I consider presenting something? In response, I asked him whose name appeared in Beelzebub…
Bennett and Higher Worlds
J.G. BENNETT AND HIGHER WORLDS Ben Bennett John Bennett is known as a transmitter of Gurdjieff’s teachings, as a pioneer of coal research, mathematician, linguist; as a seeker of wisdom, as a maverick risk-taking adventurer. But in his last…
Newsletter Article by: Ben Bennett
I was struck by a statement Mr. Bennett made in “Gurdjieff: Making a New World” (Chapter 3): “I think Gurdjieff uses the story of Ashiata Shiemash not only to underline the central significance of conscience in his message to humanity,…
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