The most important points I wished to make were in Part 1 of this review, where I considered the first of the two narratives in Ben Bennett’s book. The great […]
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Category: Reviews
“I Teach how to Cook,” Review Pt I, (Naivety and Clairvoyance)
Ben Bennett, I Teach how to Cook (… but not what to cook): A Story of John Godolphin Bennett, self-published, 2022 (249 pp., neither index nor bibliography). It seems to […]
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Review of “Alois Mailander: A Rosicrucian Remembered”
Alois Mailander: A Rosicrucian Remembered, Samuel Robinson, Pansophic Press, Oberstdorf, 2021. 307 pp. plus bibliography. This is a good and interesting volume. I had not ever heard of Mailander, but […]
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Blake reading “Meetings” available on Audible
In 2013, a review I wrote of the MP3 recording of A.G.E. Blake’s reading of Meetings With Remarkable Men was published in a blog. Since then, I have revisited it, […]
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Review of Roberta Chromey’s “Real People”
Review Roberta Chromey, Real People: At The Pinnacle with Irmis Popoff and at the Second Basic Course at Sherborne House with J.G. Bennett, a Memoire, Red Elixir, NY (2022) 336 […]
Read moreAllen Roth on Sherborne, Pt 3
As we draw to the end of the course, a poignant note emerges, e.g. in the report of how Bennett hoped that the morning exercise would produce a reservoir of […]
Read moreAllen Roth in Sherborne, Part 2
In chapter 8, Roth comes to the theme meetings, where Bennett had “a general rule only to report actual observations” (49). There is one thing I disagree with: Roth quotes […]
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Allen Roth on Sherborne, Pt 1
There is a rather valuable and well-written book, Sherborne: An Experiment in Transformation, by Allen Roth. Only 118 pages with an index, it is, nonetheless a contribution to the Gurdjieff […]
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“Christ the Yogi”?
Recently, a friend sent me an astonishingly powerful study for an icon of Ss John and Prochoros. Pondering it, I recalled that a few years ago, a friend had given […]
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Audiobook: “Life Is Real Only Then, When ‘I AM’,”
A.G.E. Blake’s reading of the Third Series is now available at Audiobooks: https://www.audible.com.au/pd/Life-Is-Real-Only-Then-When-I-Am-Audiobook/B0B4RPXCQ8?ref=a_library_t_c5_libItem_&pf_rd_p=74d71ce1-f90f-405f-b4c3-d38cdc1d6ae4&pf_rd_r=TMGFWDGN0Q4T9TDE3XRP Because I am a friend of his, and am much indebted to him in several ways, I am […]
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