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…
excerpt : The Fourth Way
The Hazards of Human Society
JG BennettUndated(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 Man Series…
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, 1948GURDJIEFF Livingston Hall, London UK J.G. BennettAbout 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 sometimes called…
The Distinction Between Sensing and Feeling
J. G. BennettThursday, 17 March 1949 Livingstone HallThere 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 is one of the foundations of…
December 13, 1974 ~ On The Death of Mr. Bennett
On The Death of Mr. Bennett Fourth Year Sherborne Students Friday, 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…
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…
The Dramatic Universe ~ Commentary by: A.G.E. Blake
Undated(Published in The Enneagram #6, June 1976)The publication of The Dramatic Universe (Vol. I, 1956; Vol. II, 1961; Vol. III, 1966; and Vol. IV, 1966) was one of the major intellectual events of this century and, in keeping with all…
OTHER PEOPLE
OTHER PEOPLEBy J. G. Bennett(This is an excerpt from a talk J.G. Bennett gave on 17th November 1963. Published in the Enneagram #3, October 1975.)I want to direct your attention to some of the ways in which other people affect…
1974 Preface to “Witness the Autobiography of John G. Bennett”
POSTSCRIPT; MR. GURDJIEFF’S LIFE
POSTSCRIPT; MR. GURDJIEFF'S LIFEBryn Thring Undated(Published in The Enneagram # 7, September 1976)Various things suggest that Mr. Gurdjieff had medical training. It is reported that during Mr. Bennett's first 1948 visit to him in Paris, G. said he had studied…
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…
THE THEMATIC TECHNIQUE
When Mr. Bennett began working with themes at Sherborne House he gave the introduction reproduced below. Reading the presentation and discussion of themes, without having worked on them oneself, can create the illusion of understanding. It is important that the…
Conscience by George Bennett – July 28, 1988
by George Bennett – July 28, 1988 ©George Bennett 2016This talk and discussion took place on July 28, 1988, as part of the Annual Eight-Day Seminar held in Cave Junction, Oregon. The seminar was sponsored by the Pacific Institute for…
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…
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