Gurdjieff: Making a New World

Politics & Social Sciences

John G. Bennett

Philosophy

Harper&Row

Deeper Man

Religion & Spirituality

New Age & Spirituality

Turnstone Books

Three lectures on the subject of Gurdjieff's life and teaching by his great acolyte, Bennett. 100 pages.

Gurdjieff, A Very Great Enigma: Three Lectures

Biographies & Memoirs

Professionals & Academics

Red Wheel/Weiser

Talks on Beelzebub's Tales

Samuel Weiser, Inc.

In the few months before his death in Paris on October 29th, 1949, Gurdjieff’s flat in the Rue des Colonels Rénard became the centre of his teaching. Followers of his ideas came to be with him at his table. They came to work – but in a way they could not expect. At the centre of what happened were the meals with their extraordinary rituals. Of these rituals, perhaps the most significant was the one known as the ‘toast of the idiots’. The ‘science of idiotism’ that Gurdjieff taught portrayed the whole human situation and the hazards of attaining liberation. Day after day, Elizabeth Bennett sat with Gurdjieff, often as ‘Director’, having the task of declaring the right toast at the correct moment and proposing the health of corresponding individuals. Her observations are meticulously recorded in these diaries and woven together with J.G. Bennett’s own commentary. The record of Mr. Bennett’s struggles are a teaching in itself. There are few explanations, because this is how it really was. We are afforded a unique glimpse into the methods of a Master and much that can shatter our illusions about the nature of the spiritual life. Gurdjieff subtly revealed his mission to those who could know it. To each he gave according to capacity, never failing to strike at the very roots of self-deception in his followers. Elizabeth Bennett was born in 1918, and died 1991. The present work is a direct transcript of a diary she kept during the last 3 months of Gurdjieff's life in 1949. A fuller account of her own life is provided in her memoirs, entitled "My Life: J.G. Bennett and G.I. Gurdjieff" written in the years before her own death. Although she taught many people in her later years, she refused the title of teacher and taught by the example of humility, courage and common sense in the hard and demanding path she chose for herself.

Idiots in Paris: Diaries of J.G. Bennett and Elizabeth Bennett, 1949

ELIZABETH BENNETT

Samuel/Weiser

156pp. DJ: Very Good w/ two 1/2inch tears, some wears, minute tanning on spine. The Book: Very Good++ w/ small price written on the front blank page. Second printing. Very Good++ in Very Good jacket

Is There Life on Earth: An Introduction to Gurdjieff

Stonehill

A series of public lectures given by John Bennett in Autumn 1956 and published in volume form in 1964. The lectures are reproduced in five chapters with a preface and postscript by the author.   From the cover of the first edition: "Bennett’s Theory of Universal Energies was first presented in his great work THE DRAMATIC UNIVERSE. In this new book he has written a popular but complete account which can be understood by those without specialized scientific knowledge or training who are nevertheless interested in scientific interpretations of personal experience. He shows how depth psychology, mysticism and religious experience connect with modern theories of Energy, Field Forces and Vital Structures, and the later chapters devoted to Consciousness, Creativity and Love open new vistas towards understanding man and the universe as a complete harmonious structure. The book contains hitherto unpublished results of the researches by Mr. Bennett and his colleagues at the Institute for the Comparative Study of History, Philosophy and the Sciences.”

Sherborne House cook book

Coombe Springs Press Ltd

This book, put together around talks that J.G. Bennett gave in 1974 to students at his Academy, and edited and expanded for this edition by A.G.E. Blake, is an explanation of the action of the Work in us through what we can experience and practice. Gurdjieff's hints are the starting point. The result is no simple condification of techniques, but an opening of doors to understanding.

Sevenfold Work

Dramatic Universe: Foundations of Moral Philosophy v. 2

Claymont Communications,U.S.

Living in Two Worlds, Sacred Impulses

Shantock P

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