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"Today's Ideas of reincarnation, karma, and Tibetan wisdom owe much to Helena Blavatsky (1831-1891), the foremother of New Age religion. Russian-born, she became a teenage runaway and traveled in search of ancient wisdom and mysterious cults…

2d ed. entirely rev. and largely augm.

"One hundred years after her death, Helena Petrovna Blavatsky remains one of the truly extraordinary figures of all time. HPB, as she is often called, stands forth as a seminal talent of her era. A trailblazer and a visionary, she cofounded The…

To tell Krishnamurti's vast, even mythic life story, Blau turns to a group of "witnesses" such as Aldous Huxley, Joseph Campbell, Henry Miller, and Van Morrison, who reveal their personal recollections of him. Through various passages of his own…

Chronicles the life of George Robert Stowe Mead, focusing on his influence on twentieth-century art, literature, and psychology and includes an annotated anthology of his writings.