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even in the East itself. For many things have changed in India, Tibet, and other romantic places in the last few decades.
People like Vincent N. Turvey, Sylvan J. Muldoon, and Oliver Fox, may seem simply ordinary individuals with extraordinary gifts, unsensational by the side of a modern Maharishi from Rishikesh complete with beard, sandals, pop meditation and all the glamor of the Mystic East, but in an age when the East 1s more concerned with five-year plans and industrial revolution, with television and consumer products, rather than with metaphysics, we may have to look Westward for a revival of magic and mysticism. It is perhaps no accident that modern pioneers of astral projection like Mr. Turvey were deeply attracted to traditional yoga and other Eastern teach- ings. It may be that future seekers after the miraculous and the ineffable would be well advised to forsake the well-worn route to the temples, peaks and caves of the Himalayas in favor of a less well charted pilgrimage through the noise and ballyhoo of civilizations with crowded streets, myriad houses, great public libraries and thousands of books, to discover the hidden seers and mystics of the West.
London, England LESLIE SHEPARD 1968
even in the East itself. For many things have changed in India, Tibet, and other romantic places in the last few decades.
People like Vincent N. Turvey, Sylvan J. Muldoon, and Oliver Fox, may seem simply ordinary individuals with extraordinary gifts, unsensational by the side of a modern Maharishi from Rishikesh complete with beard, sandals, pop meditation and all the glamor of the Mystic East, but in an age when the East 1s more concerned with five-year plans and industrial revolution, with television and consumer products, rather than with metaphysics, we may have to look Westward for a revival of magic and mysticism. It is perhaps no accident that modern pioneers of astral projection like Mr. Turvey were deeply attracted to traditional yoga and other Eastern teach- ings. It may be that future seekers after the miraculous and the ineffable would be well advised to forsake the well-worn route to the temples, peaks and caves of the Himalayas in favor of a less well charted pilgrimage through the noise and ballyhoo of civilizations with crowded streets, myriad houses, great public libraries and thousands of books, to discover the hidden seers and mystics of the West.
London, England LESLIE SHEPARD 1968
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