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
Ben Bennett Presentation: All & Everything Conference 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,…
Masters of Wisdom, chapter 4, “The Time of Christ” – read by: George Bennett
In August 1974, near the end of the third Basic Course at Sherborne, and just a few months before his death, JG Bennett fulfilled a prophecy made by Gurdjieff at his table in 1949: “One day Mr. Bennett will give…
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…
The Masters of Wisdom: quote
“ 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
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
(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…
excerpt : The Fourth Way
Enneagram drawing by J.G. Bennett
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The Hazards of Human Society
JG Bennett Undated (Excerpts from a talk by J.G. Bennett – undated. Published in the Enneagram, #5, April 1976. This and related talks by J.G. Bennett will soon be published by Coombe Springs Press under the title "Hazard; Transformation of…
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…
Suffering
Excerpt: Intimations Talks with J.G. Bennett at Beshara Chapter: Suffering; page 59 "In the Sermon on the Mount we are told 'Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, pray for them that despitefully use you and that persecute you'.…
Meeting on September 9 1948 ~ Gurdjieff
Meeting on September 9, 1948 GURDJIEFF Livingston Hall, London UK J.G. Bennett About sixty years ago a small group of people came together in the Caucasus to study two questions: firstly, to verify or disprove the reality of what are…
The Distinction Between Sensing and Feeling
The Distinction Between Sensing and FeelingJ. G. BennettThursday, 17 March 1949 Livingstone Hall There is one thing I advise you all to work on persistently until you have mastered it, and that is the distinction between sensing and feeling. This…
The Twenty Attributes of Wholeness
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December 13, 1974 ~ On The Death of Mr. Bennett
On The Death of Mr. BennettFourth Year Sherborne StudentsFriday, December 13, 1974(Published in The Enneagram # 9 - January 1977) I wrote this three days after Mr. Bennett's death and for the present article have translated it from the German.…
Extracts from a Seminar
J.G. BennettUndated(Published in The Enneagram #9, January 1977)This is what really attracted me to Gurdjieff’s teaching years ago: From the beginning, it was plain that this was an account of a mutual need, of a need the spiritual has for…
