…I encountered. I mean, what I encountered was terrifyingly not human, terrifyingly alien. And I just do not quite get. And Madam Blavatsky was into it, and they're always saying, you know, I don't know, they're very sort of cut and dried about it. And…

…amazes me. I mean, there are people who call themselves spiritual thinkers who think that the spiritual quest began with Madame Blavatsky, for crying out, ladies. Well, I've got news for you. People have been over this ground again and again and again.…

…sense that things are not alright in this society. I think that I first encountered the phrase new age in the writings of Helen Petrovna Blavatsky. She wrote in the 20s I read her in the 50s. The new age has been with us for a long time so long that…

…this nostalgia has been sorted out over the last hundred years by generations of scholars, beginning with Freud and Jung and Blavatsky and Crowley and then coming up through all the folklorists and deconstructionists, as this thing has been teased apart it…