My Library

And because of all of the above, she will be among the vast multitudes forgotten in the oblivion that comes to encompass all but the glamorous. So it is my intent at this point to honor her -- not only because of WHAT she was, but because of the incredibly important, behind-the-scenes role she was to play in the story ahead. Alongside her other extremely creative work with the higher senses, she had a deep and biding political nature. She hated totalitarian rule and political manipulation of peoples. She detested mind-control efforts whether political, religious, philosophical, or academic. She was awesomely opposed to "occult conspiracies" about whose dark underbellies she knew a great deal. Her attitudes along these lines resembled mine -- but her KNOWLEDGE was like Mount Everest compared to my low foothills. She also knew about how almost all of the world’s intelligence agencies operated -- those agencies known to exist, AND those which exist but are not known or even admitted to by anyone and don’t even have names. When I first met her, I somewhat grasped all of the above. But this made me appreciate her as an extraordinary person. I had no clue then that I would DESPERATELY NEED Karagulla as a tutor and advisor, and that I would sit at her feet six hours at a pop listening to her knowledge. Shafia asked me never to reveal this role, but years later said I could after she was gone if I felt there was any reason to do so.