Label: Theosophy

The theosophist who traveled around with flying saucers

The theosophist who traveled around with flying saucers

Håkan Blomqvist at SWEAT, i.e. "Archives For the Unexplained", in Norrköping, in its work to catalog the history of the Swedish UFO movement has reached this little nugget.

A report from when Borlänge was visited by the theosophist, ufologist, etc., Alve Holmqvist, in the early 80s. I want to remember it was my own "scoop" from when I was browsing the newspaper during junior high school, or shortly thereafter. You can read more about this Holmqvist here the blog post by Håkan Blomqvist. And here, in one Post from Clas Svahn's blog.

A reflection when I re-watch the old clip and google the lecturer is how certain interests seem to be able to coincide so well: Flying saucers, Pyramid mysticism, Healing, Occultism, Western esotericism, battle squares, etc.

Krishnamurti in Swedish media

Krishnamurti in Swedish media

DN and SvD have digital archives that span approximately 150 years. If you look up the Theosophical apostate and wisdom teacher Jiddu Krishnamurti (1895-1986), it turns out that they actually followed and reported on his entire career.
1.
“In Paris there is currently a fifteen-year-old Hindu from Adyar in India named Krishnamurti, called Alcyone by his followers. Despite his youth, Krishnamurti has managed to write a book entitled At the Master's Feet, which has been translated into several languages ​​and made its author the leader of an occult sect, the Eastern Star Sect, which already counts followers in the thousands.” (DN 1912-03-28)
2.
"A new Messiah... For si, an order had been issued by Mrs. Annie Besant that a new Messiah would come and walk with the people on earth. He would wear the creation of a young Hindu raised for this purpose by the Grand Old Lady of India.” (DN 1926-01-07)
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(continued)
4.
"Mrs. Besant's Messiah in Dutch Tent Camp: The Tool of the World Teacher." (DN 1926-08-31)
5.
"It has been announced that the famous Indian prophet would be engaged to play the leading role in a new tone film in Hollywood..." (DN 1930-03-06)
6.
"Krishnamurti, the theosophical prophet who has given himself the title of the title [The Second Messiah], has dissolved his order, which is called the Star of the East." (DN 1929-08-11)
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"The 'Star in the East' has disbanded." (Bad picture, but only to show that this was also news in the other morning newspaper. SvD 1929-08-09)
8.
Memory words. “Krishnamurti is dead… 'Let us die each day so that we may face tomorrow as delicate as a newly sprung leaf. For a person who is constantly dying there is no death.'" (SvD 1986-02-21)

(Tip! If you're reading on a mobile phone, it's better to zoom in normally with your fingers rather than selecting "Fullscreen".)

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Spiritual Elitism (again)

Spiritual Elitism (again)

Today 17/2 is 100 years since the Institute of Racial Biology in Uppsala was founded, they say on TV.

What was the esoteric-neo-spiritual scene like at the time? 1922... Jiddu Krishnamurti, the Theosophists' mainstay calf, has his "enlightenment experience". (The Dane Martinus Thomsen had had his the year before.)

It will take until 1929 before Krishnamurti turns his back on Theosophy. Theosophy with its doctrine of "root races", the evolution of souls and cultures, ascent towards light and sovereignty, peaks in the years leading up to that, as I understand it. Attracts masses, thousands and thousands, of educated people. Seems to be well in time.

Hitler takes full control of the Nazi party in 1922, too, I google.

Don't know what I'm looking for really. Has the world changed more than parts of (new) spirituality have?