Theosophy

As Theosophical Society President Henry Steele Olcott wrote in the second volume of Old Diary Leaves (1900) about his first year in India accompanied by Society Co-Founder Helena Petrovna Blavatsky:   . . . every scene and experience had the charm of novelty, and we enjoyed them like children.  It was something, after all, to be suddenly transferred from prosaic America and its atmosphere of mad haste and bitter commercial competition, to the calm and mental peace of hoary India, where the...Read Full Story

The Toronto Theosophical Society was one of the most notable of the Theosophical groups, and Gillian McCann’s forthcoming book, Vanguard of the New Age: The Toronto Theosophical Society, 1891-1945 , due in May, tells the story of this group “ that introduced Victorian Toronto to Eastern thought and theology, vegetarianism, reincarnation, cremation, and the pacifism of Mohandas Gandhi .” Vanguard of the New Age unearths a largely ignored dimension of Canadian religious history. Members of the...Read Full Story

  H. P. Blavatsky Henry Steele Olcott reminded about his friend and Theosophical Society co-worker Helena Petrovna Blavatsky (1831-1891) in the second volume of Old Diary Leaves (1900), ". . . her phenomena happened in the presence of many witnesses . . ." Olcott noted that although his autobiographical articles had been appearing in the Theosophist journal since March 1892, the only suggested modification of his accounts by these witnesses had been made "by Mr. Massey as to some particulars...Read Full Story

Helena Petrovna Blavatsky and Henry Steel Olcott in 1888 Theosophical Society President-Founder Col. Henry Steel Olcott wrote about his first encounter with the woman who would be the society's Co-Founder/Corresponding Secretary, Madame Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, in Old Diary Leaves (1895) a nd his case study of paranormal phenomena People From The Other World (1875). The latter chronicled the various phenomena associated with the mediumship of brothers William and Horatio Eddy at their...Read Full Story

EVERY organ and cell in the body has its own energetic biofield, and uses it to network wirelessly with all the other organs and cells. The heart and the gut talk back and forth continually to the brain, whose neurons also converse with each other, day and night. Researchers have recently discovered that both the heart and the gut, have substantial neuronal regions, showing they both have brains of their own. The holographic network of the heart links, organizes and entrains, say the...Read Full Story