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...first time Nanda Devi, highest mountain in British India. The Harvard scales were Adams Carter '36, William F. Loomis '36, president last year of the club, and Charles Houston '35. Arthur M. Emmens '35, another former club member who in 1934 conquered Minya Konka, a mountain in eastern Tibet, was also on this expedition...
Europeans are normally "phonographs," rational, scientific, dealing with measurable things and treating the phenomenal universe as the only real one. Mystics, mediums, the natives of Tibet, are "radios," treating the phenomenal universe as supremely unimportant, the creations of their inward visions as realities of the same quality as things in the objective world. "If we are sane, they are mad," says Author Gorer, who suggests that the mind may be a source of energy, that this mental energy may be very pronounced in great religious teachers, that possession of it may be, like inborn musical talent or genius, developed with...
...treaty of mutual assistance signed between Soviet Russia and an Asiatic nation early this spring was designed to check Japanese aggression in (1 Manchukuo, 2 Chinese Turkestan, 3 Indo-China, 4 Outer Mongolia, 5 Tibet...
Author Landau believes Gurdjieff was once a Russian agent in Tibet, that there he learned ancient esoteric lore, that he must now be over 70 although he looks no more than...
...inner Mongolia and Manchukuo. Sinkiang these days appears to be passing from Chinese into Soviet control. It may yet be the promised land of Chinese Communism. But its sparse population and extreme remoteness force it out of this week's picture. The same is true of nearby independent Tibet. Manchukuo is that part of what was once China in which Japan in 1932 set up as her puppet the onetime Emperor of China, whose right to a Throne is entirely legitimate. This young man. famed as "Mr. Henry Pu Yi," is the descendant of Manchu Lords who marched from...