Sublime

Five people (Madame Blavatsky, Annie Besant, C. W. Leadbeater, H. Olcott, and A. P. Sinnett) wrote most of what we know to date of the etheric web, auras, magnetism, chakras, spiritualism, psychic perception, and reincarnation. These people took the ancient wisdom of the Hindus and translated them into a language Westerners could understand.

Empire as a “way of life” in the islands remains visible yet nearly unspeakable even today, manifesting itself as the most “militouristic” zone of the United States.35

While on a sabbatical from Oracle (he would leave for good in 1995), Jesse set up a nonprofit called the Council on Spiritual Practices (CSP), with the aim of “making direct experience of the sacred more available to more people.” The website downplays the organization’s interest in promoting entheogens—Bob Jesse’s preferred term for psychedelics—b

not ethnological,

Hawaiian women thus bore the responsibility of reproducing national knowledge

‘The Amboina Massacre’.