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                                              January 11, 2007
                                              May     25, 2008

   There's a
   recurrent
   obsession           That obsession
   in Western          may have been         GHOSTS_OF_THE_SHADOW
   adventure           transmitted
   fiction             by "The Shadow"
   with "the           radio show...
   Orient" as
   a source of           My guess is that this is a
   mystic                reflection of one of the
   knowledge.            undercurrents of mysticism
                         around the beginning of the   The tales of psychics
                         twentieth century.            and mediums reflected a
                                                       quite serious obsession
                                                       with Spiritualism.

                                                       Later successfully
                                                       discredited by Houdini
                                                       and the like: now it's
                                                       generally understood
                                                       that there were many
                                                       con-artists working the
                                                       medium racket.


        So... where did the idea come
        from that Tibet is the source
        of true magical wisdom?

                  One idea I've had is that
                  it might have been someone
                  like Nicholas Roerich...

                                  ROERICH


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