Our Psychic Sense

Laurence Bendit

Laurence Bendit’s contributions to Theosophical literature include dozens of articles published in Theosophical journals as well as several books, some of which resulted from collaboration with his wife, Phoebe Bendit. Among those books are The Mirror of Life and Death, The Psychic Sense, This World and That, and A Yoga for the West. Dr. Bendit was the General Secretary of the Theosophical Society in England from 1958-1962. Born in France, of American and British parentage, Laurence Bendit was an American citizen until age 25, when he then took up residence in England. Dr. Bendit held both M.A. & M.D. degrees from Cambridge University as well as the specialist diploma of Psychological Medicine. His doctoral thesis was on parapsychology, the first ever to be accepted by any British university for that degree.

Phoebe Bendit

Phoebe Bendit was a trained psychotherapist who spent most of her career dealing with obscure problems of physical and psychological ill-health. Her articles appeared regularly in Theosophical journals during the 1960s and early 1970s. Besides lecturing to Theosophical groups around the world, her contributions to Theosophical literature include several books that she co-authored with her husband, Laurence Bendit. She died in 1974.