…model of the world. And all this talk that has gone on throughout the 20th century, beginning with the golden dawn and madame Blavatsky and that crowd and coming up through the psychedelics and the new ageists and the gurdjieffians and all that all this…

…outbreak, probably driven by devil worship and that sort of thing. When an occultist hears the phrase new age they think of madame Blavatsky and the golden dawn and all of those people around the turn of the century who were also talking about a new…

…of pop phenomenon I guess that's what I want to say. It's very pop. Very few new agers probably themselves even realize that madame Blavatsky began talking about the new age in the teens and 20s of this century. So I see it as a phenomenon in response…

…it was sort of the umbrella organization that emerged out of this impulse to study and understand eastern thought and madame Blavatsky and Gurdjieff also there was an influence there were these different schools and they sometimes found common cause and they…

…was an influence there were these different schools and they sometimes found common cause and they sometimes railed against each other. Madame Blavatsky seemed to be the best organizer of the group and the golden dawn flourished up into the 20s and the 30s…

…down in the 30s I guess maybe intellectuals turned to marxism or that generation of people sort of died out. Madame Blavatsky became very interested in Krishnamurti. He resisted you know these groups wanted to proclaim him the world messiah and he basically…

…the east, this thing always seems to get its intellectual juice from surges of interest in eastern thought. For the early wave, madame Blavatsky and all those people it was India. Well then in the early 50s you get people like Daryl Suzuki writing about…

…from neurosis to health and in a way psychoanalysis is part of the new age. I mean the relationship between Freud and Jung to Blavatsky, Gurdjieff and some of these people is a fascinating study in itself. So yes there is a lot of disease in the world…

…what I encountered. I mean what I encountered was terrifyingly not human, terrifyingly alien and I I just do not quite get and madame 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…

…turn you into a Christ or a buddha or a Lao Tzu. If you're not quite correctly situated, it turns you into a madame Blavatsky, a meister Eckhart in other words second stringers if you just get a little of it, well then you're a person with strange…

…thing 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 loud. Well I've got news for you. People have been over this ground again and again and again.…