John G. Bennett - Bibliography

Bibliography

• Creation (Exploration of the idea that man lives in many worlds)
• Creative Thinking (The conditions necessary for creative insight)
• Deeper Man (Gurdjieff's ideas applied to the critical condition of 20th century society)
• Dramatic Universe, The (A search for a unified vision of reality)
• Elementary Systematics: A Tool for Undertanding Wholes (Conceptual tool to find pattern in complexity. A handbook for business)
• Energies: Material, Vital, Cosmic (exploration of the theory of Universal Energies developed from Gurdjieff's hints)
• First Liberation, The ( Working with Themes at Sherborne House)
• Gurdjieff: A Very Great Enigma (The ideas of Gurdjieff and the mystery that surrounded him)
• Gurdjieff - Making a New World (Biography exploring Gurdjieff's role in bringing ancient wisdom to the West)
• Hazard: The Risk of Realization (First book of talks given on ideas found in The Dramatic Universe)
• How We Do Things: The Role of Attention in Spiritual Life (Chapters on Function, Sensitivity, Consciousness, Decision, & Creativity)
• Intimations: Talks with J.G. Bennett at Beshara (talks given to students of Reshad Feild and of the great Sufi Mystic Muhyiddin Ibn Arabi)
• Idiots In Paris (Diaries of Elizabeth & J.G. Bennett in Paris with Gurdjieff)
• Is There Life On Earth? (Introduction to Gurdjieff's ideas arousing a practical concern for the future of life on this planet)
• Journeys In Islamic Countries (Diaries of Bennetts's search for the sources of Gurdjieff's teachings)
• Long Pilgrimage (The life and teaching of the Shivapuri Baba)
• Making A Soul: Human Destiny and the Debt of Our Existence (Instruction based on Bennett's view of the fundamental purpose of human existence)
• Masters Of Wisdom: An Esoteric History of the Spiritual Unfolding of Life on This Planet (Historical study and a vision of the workings of higher intelligence)
• Needs Of A New Age Community: Talks on Spiritual Community & Schools (Includes Bennett's commentaries on 'The Sermon on the Mount')
• Sacred Influences: Spiritual Action in Human Life (Essays on the qualities of Life, Nature, Doing, Wisdom, God, and Sacred Images)
• The Sevenfold Work ('The Work' resolved into seven lines applicable to past and present practice and experience)
• Sex (The relationship between sex and spiritual development)
• The Spiritual Hunger Of The Modern Child (Bennett, Mario Montessori, A.I Polack and others on the nature of a child's spirituality)
• A Spiritual Psychology ( a workbook for creating an organ of perception and mode of existence independent from the vagaries of life)
• Sunday Talks At Coombe Springs (A collection of some of Bennett's most creative thinking)
• Talks On Beelzebub's Tales (From Bennett's talks on Gurdjieff's series 'Beelzebub's Tales to His Grandson'.
• Transformation (The process by which a man can become a 'New Man')
• Way To Be Free (Conversations between Bennett & his students on the difference between work done from the mind and work from essence)
• What Are We Living For? (A critique of western culture)
• Witness: The Story Of a Search (Autobiography)