23.11.08
Copy of The Dramatic Universe received
One of the Bennett family, as inicated here in a comment post, has generously sent me a copy/typescript version of Bennett’s The Dramatic Universe. I have commented here several times, in a rather ambivalent mode.
In fact, it would be of interest, tho a lot of work and out of place/time, to rewrite the Samkhya part of his book. It is significant because the Gurdjieff legacy is pretty much left aside in this original vision. So few can avail themselves of this material or navigate past the many areas of metaphysical forest to see the curiously compelling, post-Gurdjieff, portrayal of human spiritual psychology.
It is thus not clear to me how to consider this book here. We have had secularists and a variety of New Age types here. In fact, Bennett’s work, properly rendered, with Gurdjiff set aside due to his mendacious chicanery and exploitation tactics, could open the way to a purely secular version of ’spiritual psychology’ in the tradition of Samkhya.
At least it might suggest another way to approach such a question, where secularists and New Agers both are suffering from confusion over what they are doing, should believe in, or who they are.