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William Walker Atkinson
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One of the original's in Theosophy, or the "New Thought Movement", a brilliant, albeit overworked and stressed lawyer has a breakdown. It's approximately 1890, slightly before.
He consolidates a few spiritual teachings and from there begins a career as one of the most prolific authors ever, whose hundred(s?) of books are still in print (under a variety of pseudonyms), titles include:
- Mind Power: The Secret of Mental Magic
- Practical Mind-Reading
- Reincarnation and the Law of Karma
- The Subconscious and the Superconscious Planes of Mind
- Telepathy: Its Theory, Facts, and Proof
- The Seven Cosmic Laws
- The Science of Psychic Healing
- Ghosts of the Living, End of the Dead
- How to Develop Psychic Telepathy
- The Mystic Sixth Sense
- Mental Vibrations and Transmission
- Clairvoyance and Occult Powers
- The Art and Science of Personal Magnetism: The Secrets of Mental Fascination
His influence on contemporary spiritual teachings cannot be overestimated. He's "L. Ron Hubbard" gone mainstream, and his fingers can still be seen in every New Age chicanery - or ideal - today.
Link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Walker_Atkinson
I mean, I should have stumbled across him as a child, I would have lapped this all up...
Maybe better I didn't. Well, given where I'm living now, maybe I should have...
Nonetheless, I'll keep an eye peeled, if I come across any volumes I'll be sure to pass them along. I'm pretty sure you'd want to read them as well...
Julie Baldyga
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Outsider art, in the vein of Marwencol. Love the dolls, the explanations, the portraits.
Or here: https://louisvillestoryprogram.org/projects/in-heaven-everyone-will-shake-your-hand
A surprising lack of online references for someone I suspect in a few years will be much better known. And - you remember that little craft project where bored grandmothers would take some kids clothes/overalls, and fill them with stuffed nylons and arrange it to look like a child looking the other way in their living rooms? I mean, everyone's grandparents had one....well, her dolls take this to the next level...
The Triumph of Death - Pieter Breugel the Elder
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This, found while doing research into a few related topics, a grotesque masterpiece that's rather fetching, don't you think?
Link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Triumph_of_Death
Right click, open in a new tab and admire the details. The painting is inspired by the Bubonic Plague, which swept Europe and Asia a number of times to devastating effect.
In some instances, in towns up to 50% of the population died in a couple of years, in countries upwards of 25%.
This Pandemic, hate to say it, but it's just the warm-up before the practice...
Strange Tales of World Travel: Gina & Scott Gaille
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Found this at the library, and so while soliciting inspiration took the time to give it a read.
As the title suggests, it's premised on the idea that the most interesting thing about travel is the people that you meet, and with this in mind Scott & Gina interviewed fellow travelers for their most interesting tales.
A couple of the best - "Honey of Man", "UFO's" & one about a fellow traveler that had eaten a "Cobra Bird" - apparently a species of Hawk that eats cobras and so has developed an immunity to their venom - and by eating the hawk one experiences some psychedelic effects.
I tried looking this up to verify - to no avail. I'll check it again at the library today.
Unfortunately too many of the stories are from Scott and Gina themselves, and it reads a bit like an "influencers journal", adventure travel done solely with the point of regaling their friends and relatives with their adventures. But - if you see a copy in the library, pull it down and look up "Honey of Man", perhaps 3 pages, but curious...
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