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Occupy Your Body—Sense Always

“This work has service at its apex not its foundation. At its foundation it has understanding what our situation really is.”—J.G. Bennett. Fallen Leaves. Private Collection, 1980. “Tonight when we reached Hopeless Idiots, G was very solemn and after the Addition, spoke about ‘this small aim’ not to perish like a dog, and how everyone […]

JG Bennett & Elizabeth Bennett at Sherborne on December 12, 1974, the day before he died.

A Transmission of Love through JG Bennett

“Love is a force, by which all life is transformed, and everything returns to its source.” — JG Bennett Along with ninety other students from around the world, I studied with John Bennett at his Sherborne Academy the last months of his life. Mr. Bennett was a sincere and adventurous man filled with a visible […]

Who am I?

practical |ˈpraktikəl| adjective. Of or concerned with the actual doing or use of something rather than with theory and ideas. Gurdjieff’s teaching is a practical philosophy for becoming whole while struggling to awaken to who we are. It is a living hologram whose three dimensions of body, mind, and heart which, when enlightened by active […]