Four energies, or four kinds of operation, combine together to produce the field of human action. If we understand that there are these energies behind all that we do, then we can learn how to do things more intelligently. Manipulation of the functions themselves is nowhere near as effective as dealing with the energies that make them work. J.G. Bennett gives a practical way of changing the relationships between our energies. This is the key to a new way of life, for we are thereby able to put our attention where it counts most. The book is based on lectures given by J.G. Bennett in the 1960's in the context of practical application of the ideas.

How we do things

J.G. Bennett

Religion & Spirituality

Coombe Springs Press

Self-Help

Bennett, John G.

Relationships

The enneagram (Transformation of man series)

Journeys in Islamic countries

Politics & Social Sciences

Philosophy

Noticing (The Sherborne theme talks series)

Journeys in Islamic Countries: v. 2

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Existence

Bennett, J. G. (John)

Creation (Studies from the dramatic universe No 3)

Creation (Studies from the dramatic universe)

Food (Sherborne Theme Talks)

Comics & Graphic Novels

Graphic Novels

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

Bennett, Elizabeth

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