J. G. Bennett

These are documents relating to J. G. Bennett.

In his introduction to A Spiritual Psychology Anthony Blake gives an overall picture of Bennett's work in relation to his principle of 'integration without rejection'.

A Descriptive Model of Mental and Supramental Operations is taken from the journal Systematics and lays out in brief form his scheme of levels of energy as a way of describing 'mind' and 'intelligence' in relation to natural and supernatural phenomena. This model is being used in Anthony Blake's forthcoming book Ways of Higher Intelligence.

Towards an Objectively Complete Language is also taken from the journal Systematics. This is a unique paper, attempting to give precise expression to the notions of present moment and will in quasi-mathematical form. It contains an account of three modes of togetherness - compatibility, compresence and coalescence - and describes the work of a scientist in these terms. Bennett regarded the present moment as prior to any 'universal system' and, even though the complicated approach in this paper was abandoned, he continued to seek more concrete forms of understanding than was possible through systematics.

George Bennett, his eldest son, gives an account of his father's life.

Bennett's Study of All and Everything is one of his early essays on the significance of Gurdjieff's magnum opus.