WITNESS ~ Postscript, April 1971
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 Turner to produce a new edition. For this edition, in the days immediately before his departure to the United States for his lecture tour, Bennett produced the hastily written 5000-word Postscript which follows below. Just over two years later, a fully revised edition was published by Turnstone Books. This was the last version of Witness to be produced before Bennett’s death, and for this edition he wrote a much fuller…
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…
Letter from JG Bennett on the death of G.I. Gurdjieff
Letter from JGB on Gurdjieff's death 1st of November 1949 Never before published letter from the archives of the Estate of JG Bennett / JG Bennett Foundation
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…
Gotham Book Mart, June 1, 1971 NYC J.G. Bennett
“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
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
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…
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…
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…
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…