GRGR3: Discussion Opener for Section 3

[hankhank at ccwf.cc.utexas.edu]

On Fri, 25 Oct 1996, Andrew Dinn wrote:
> 
> I have recently been reading a great book, Peter Washington's `Madame
> Blavatsky's Baboon', about the history of spiritualism which traces
> most of the 20th century West's ideas on the subject back to their
> roots in Madame Blavatsky's Theosophy. 

Accidentally (?) I came across the book, too, some time ago. In addition
to what Andrew says, what struck me as interesting was the stuff on
the "circle" that was formed around Krishnamurti and Aldous Huxley (who
was in a "spiritualizing" process): there were people like C Isherwood, 
W H Auden, a very impressive Irishman named Gerald Heard, and more loosely
also B Russell, T Mann, B Brecht, C Chaplin, I Stravinsky, and G Garbo.

Where and when was this?

In Los Angeles, during WWII. Do I smell some kinda quirky displacements
here?

Heikki