Tag Archives: Elizabeth Bennett

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 […]

Welcome to Bennett Books Blog!

This blog is dedicated to nurturing, nourishing, and further developing a living legacy of work-on-oneself introduced into Western culture by George Ivanovich Gurdjieff at the opening of the twentieth century. It is a legacy of harmonious development, continuous education, ongoing practice, and lived experience in the many-faceted mystery of being human. Throughout the first half […]

The Realized Idiot: The artful psychology of G.I. Gurdjieff

This little book dares-to-share a handful of understanding that has resulted from it’s author being “active in front of a mystery” — that mystery is Gurdjieff’s legacy of work with the science of idiotism. Written by second-generation impudent-upstart Bruno Martin, The Realized Idiot will no doubt be criticized by a few whose conditioned-timidity has overpowered […]