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…
February 2022 the occasional newsletter
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…
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…
“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 ~ 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…
“Conscience”
"Conscience "January 26, 2015There have been several versions of this transcript over the past 40 years, and a shortened version has been published in the most recent issue of "Parabola" magazine. Here is the full transcript of all three sessions.CONSCIENCEJ.G.…
The Recorded Talks of John G. Bennett ~about
The Recorded Talks of John G. Bennett  At Sherborne House, between October 1971 and December 1974, more than 450 cassette recordings were made of talks by Mr. Bennett to public audiences, various groups of students and other groups of…