Laurence J. Bendit

UNDER CONSTRUCTION
UNDER CONSTRUCTION
Dr. Laurence J. Bendit was an English Theosophist and psychiatrist who practiced in London, England. He is best known as a researcher, writer, and lecturer on parapsychology who worked in collaboration with his wife, clairvoyant Phoebe D. Bendit.

Theosophical Society involvement

In 1948 he delivered the Blavatsky Lecture on the subject Adam, the Prodigal Son. He was involved with the Theosophical Research Centre in London during the 1950s.

Writings

The Union Index of Theosophical Periodicals lists 154 articles with Dr. Bendit as author and 24 articles about him and his books. He wrote a number of books:

• Self Knowledge: a Yoga for the West. Quest Books, 1967.
• Paranormal Cognition. Faber & Faber, 1946.

Written with Phoebe D. Bendit:

• Our Psychic Sense (1943)
• An Introduction to the Study of Analytical Psychology. London: Theosophical Research Centre, 1947.
• This World and That: An Analytical Study of Psychic Communication (1950)
• Man Incarnate, A Study of the Vital Etheric Field (1957)
• The Transforming Mind (published in 1970, after Phoebe's death)
• The Etheric Body of Man. Quest Books. 1977ish
• Some Unrecognized Factors in Medicine. London: Theosophical Research Centre, 1949. Coauthors were Phoebe Bendit, H. Tudor Edmunds, E. Adelaide Gardner, and M. Beddow Bayly.
• The Mirror of Life and Death.

Audio recordings

These audio recordings were made by the Theosophical Society in America from live lectures and radio broadcasts:

Dr. Bendit with Phoebe Payne Bendit:

• Visions, Dreams, and Symbols. 1961. 69 minutes.
• Medical Diagnosis by Clairvoyance. 1957. 44 minutes.
• Imagination as Creative Force. 1961. 54 minutes.
• Resources of the Mind. 1961. 63 minutes.

Dr. Bendit alone:

• Hidden Aspects of Health and Healing. 1961. 54 minutes.
• The Development of Mind. 1959. 49 minutes.