• February 2022 the occasional newsletter

    February 20, 2022 /

    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…

  • April 28, 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,…

  • Gurdjieff: Making a New World, Appendix II; The Great Laws

    October 14, 2018 /

    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…

  • The Masters of Wisdom: quote

    May 22, 2018 /

    “ 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

    March 3, 2018 /

    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…

  • The Hazards of Human Society

    September 11, 2017 /

    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

    June 8, 2017 /

    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…

  • Meeting on September 9 1948 ~ Gurdjieff

    January 7, 2017 /

    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 Dramatic Universe ~ Commentary by: A.G.E. Blake

    December 2, 2016 /

     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

    December 1, 2016 /

    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…

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