Here’s a bit of what I’m reading today from The Lost City of Z by David Grann:
“While Madame Blavatsky continued to practice the arts of a medium, she gradually turned her attention to more ambitious psychic frontiers. Claiming that she was a conduit for a brotherhood of reincarnated Tibetan mahatmas, she tried to give birth to a new religion called Theosophy, or “wisdom of the gods.” It drew heavily on occult teachings and Eastern religions, particularly Buddhism, and for many Westerners it came to represent a kind of counterculture, replete with vegetarianism. As the historian Janet Oppenheim noted in The Other World, “For those who wanted to rebel dramatically against the constraints of the Victorian ethos––however they perceived that elusive entity––the flavor of heresy must have been particularly alluring when concocted by so unabashed an outsider as H.P. Blavatsky.”
Is this a non-fiction book about alternate lifestyles?
hee-hee:) No. Actually it’s a non-fiction book about a party who got lost exploring the Amazon. A very experienced party. It’s quite a mystery what exactly happened to them and I am riveted. I’ve written a book that takes place in the Amazon. My dad used to work in Venezuela and so I spent a little time there. It’s a wonderful setting for a story. Thanks for stopping by:)