www.trimondi.de/SDLE/Part-2-11.htm 11. THE SHAMBHALA MYTH AND THE WEST The Shambhala missionary Agvan Dorjiev Madame Blavatsky and the Shambhala myth Nicholas Roerich and the Kalachakra Tantra The “Shambhala warrior” Chögyam Trungpa The Fourteenth Dalai Lama and the Shambhala myth
La Blavatsky mi ha sempre affascinato moltissimo, mi sono sempre ripromesso di leggere quello che faceva ma poi il tempo e la pigrizia mi hanno fregato...ne so poco. Tu sapresti riassumermi il suo pensiero?
HISTORY & PHILOSOPHY Hitler and the Himalayas: The SS Mission to Tibet 1938-39 The projections of the Nazi expedition, however, did not include the now familiar search for Shangri-La, the hidden land in which a uniquely perfect and peaceful social system held a blueprint to counter the transgressions that plague the rest of humankind. Rather, the perfection sought by the Nazis was an idea of racial perfection that would justify their views on world history and German supremacy.
Nazi leaders such as Heinrich Himmler believed that Tibet might harbor the last of the original Aryan tribes, the legendary forefathers of the German race, whose leaders possessed supernatural powers that the Nazis could use to conquer the world.
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In Germany the idea of an Aryan or “master” race found resonance with rabid nationalism, the idea of the German superman distilled from the philosophy of Frederick Nietzsche, and Wagner’s operatic celebrations of Nordic sagas and Teutonic mythology.
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In the 1890s, E. B. Lytton, a Rosicrucian, wrote a best-selling novel around the idea of a cosmic energy (particularly strong in the female sex), which he called “Vril.” Later he wrote of a Vril society, consisting of a race of super-beings that would emerge from their underground hiding-places to rule the world.
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They ranged from those devoted to the Holy Grail to those who followed the sex and drugs mysticism of Alastair Crowley, and many seem to have had a vague affinity for Buddhist and Hindu beliefs.
Chakra 23 anni fa io e Epi, cioè soprattutto lui, aveva fatto un bel lavoro su questi temi, peccato che non si possano congiungere. Non so nemmeno più dove sono.