Bendit, Phoebe Daphne (Payne) (1891-?)

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Bendit, Phoebe Daphne (Payne) (1891-?)

Psychotherapist, author, and collaborator with her husband, Dr. L. J. Bendit, in parapsychological studies. Phoebe Bendit was also clairvoyant and associated with the British College of Psychic Science in London. She was sole author of several books and co-author of other books with her husband. In 1961 she moved with her husband to Wheaton, Illinois, and the following year to Ojai, California, where they revived the work of the Krotona Institute of Theosophy.

Sources:

Bendit, L. J., and Phoebe Bendit. Living Together Again. London, Gramol Publications, 1946.

. Man Incarnate. N.p., 1957. Reprinted as The Etheric Body of Man. Wheaton, Ill.: Theosophical Publishing House, 1977.

. This Transforming Mind. Wheaton, Ill.: Theosophical Publishing House, 1970.

Bendit, Phoebe. Man's Latent Powers. London, Faber and Faber, 1938.

. The Psychic Child or Over-sensitive Child. N.p., 1955.

Bendit, Phoebe, and Laurence J. Bendit. The Psychic Sense. London: Faber and Faber, 1943.

. This World and That. London: Faber and Faber, 1950.

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