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Hollingsworth's background is eclectic. "When I was 11 my dad asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up, and I said 'psychiatrist.' A couple of years later he asked again and I said 'priest.' Now I've sort of combined them." After deciding in four months...
Helen Petrovna Blavatsky, Russian psychic, was the force behind Theosophy's establishment. "For years and years the ancient wisdom was preserved in the mystery schools, mainly through esoteric teachings and Eastern wisdom," Aloyse Hume, a member of the Boston group since the late 1960s, explains. "Blavatsky in her travels spent...
The current explosion of interest in the East pleases the society, but at the same time "many groups today take only a partial view of things while we see ourselves as offering an integrated whole," Catherine Holden, president of the Boston chapter, says. "Some people call us conservative, but we...
Besides the bookstore and a lay healing group, the society offers numerous classes. One week's schedule included parapsychology, Swedish massage, meditation, the seven bodies, esoteric astrology and vibrant earth. One hundred dues-paying members help sustain the Boston group, and there are lodges in 52 nations and two-thirds...
The vagueness of the Core legislation permitted these committees to approve courses on topics catering to each professor's narrow specialty, rather than facing the challenge of devising broad foundation courses. So instead of eight to ten essential courses on the great works of literature, the history of Western civilization...