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Thursday 20 April 2017

Blavatsky and Explorers, Adventurers and Travellers: The Lost City of Z movie

Percy Fawcett



The Lost City of Z, the reviews are in:
 It tells the story of the British explorer Percy Fawcett who, in 1925, disappeared with his son in the Amazon while looking for an ancient lost city.
The Lost City of Z transforms the true story of a jungle explorer into a universal quest Alissa Wilkinson Apr 14, 2017

Fawcett’s nameless, shapeless desire slowly gathers mass over the course of The Lost City of Z, acquiring a barely discernible outline — though what Fawcett is truly after is still a mystery by the end. Based on David Grann’s 2010 book about Fawcett (which itself grew out of his 2005 New Yorker article on the explorer), it feels like a movie from an earlier era. http://www.vox.com/culture/2017/4/13/15243584/lost-city-of-z-review-james-gray-charlie-hunnam-robert-pattinson


BOOK REVIEW: The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon by David Grann (Vintage) 2009 In Grann's book, he talks of "strange papers" found amongst Fawcett's collection, as found by son Brian. Grann writes that in the year prior to what would be his final expedition, Col. Fawcett "filled his papers with reams of delirious writings about the end of the world and about a mystical Atlantean kingdom, which resembled the Garden of Eden. Z was transformed into the 'cradle of all civilizations' and the center of one of Blavatsky's 'White Lodges,' where a group of higher spiritual beings helped to direct the fate of the universe."
http://www.reddirtreport.com/rustys-reads/book-review-lost-city-z-david-grann
Jason Colavito weighs in:
http://www.jasoncolavito.com/blog/percy-fawcett-victim-of-a-theosophical-obsession
 
Lost City of Z trailer:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hjqtP459uo8
 
Charlie Hunnam in The Lost City of Z

History of travel in the Himalayas has Blavatsky accounts:
Robert Twiggers survey of the Himalayas is decidedly quirky - Sara Wheeler
 
Biography has eye-witness account of the famous Simla tea cup phenonmena -
John ZubrzyckiThe Mysterious Mr. Jacob: Diamond Merchant, Magician and Spy
ODD TRUTHS: ALEXANDER M. JACOB

Tibet Road in the Himalayas, photographed in 1867 by Samuel Bourne.
Jamal ad-Din al-Afghani
Mysterious scholar between East and West: Jamal ad-Din al-Afghani
Ekrem Bugra Ekinci - April 17, 2015
However, the freely-distributed magazine stopped publication after eight months. Abduh returned to Beirut and al-Afghani remained in Paris. He secretly gave conferences. He had many guests come and go. The Catholic nationalists sent by his Russian friend, Madame Helena Blavatsky, the Irish revolutionaries, priests, et cetera would always visit him. The extremely mysterious Madame Blavatsky was the founder of the Theosophy Society, which was a supra-religion organization.
http://www.dailysabah.com/feature/2015/04/18/mysterious-scholar-between-east-and-west-jamal-addin-alafghani

Baron de Palm
The Mysterious Baron de Palm
Some Notes on Joseph Henri Louis, Baron de Palm (1809-1876)
Marc Demarest - April 13, 2017
As Annette Cobb -- likely Annette Amelia Storer Cobb, the daughter of John Storer Cobb, FTS and attorney (and possibly de Palm's attorney) -- was out of the country at the time the will was proved (1878), William Quan Judge attested to Annette's signature on the will. And, at that time, HP Blavatsky attested to Baron de Palm’s signature. All in all, a completely Theosophical affair.
http://ehbritten.blogspot.ca/#!/2017/04/gossip-about-world-in-general-some.html



Alexandra David-Neel Exhibit in France:
http://www.leparisien.fr/culture-loisirs/alexandra-david-neel-au-tibet-coute-que-coute-05-03-2017-6733206.php



Thursday 13 April 2017

Blavatsky audio-visual: Documentaries, podcasts, radio shows, video lectures


Nice Blavastky Documentary with interviews and theatrical scenes produced by the Theosophical Society in England and the Blavatsky Trust
H.P.BLAVATSKY - Biographical Documentary
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HLN7poqjeDQ&t=333s


 Mark Passio radio show and lecture:
Mark Passio On Helena Petrovna Blavatsky & The Occult
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WfAZX4qqs7Q&t=127s
On Theosophy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ST7N5bsfc1g

Very mainstream Blavatsky documentary, some inaccuracies, but well-produced – features Marion Meade, K. Paul Johnson, Will Thakara and James Santucci:
Madam Blavatsky Spiritual Traveller 47 min
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uy48wvcnRCA

Nice half-hour documentary:
Who is Helena Blavatsky (Apocalyptic Masterpiece)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DXqno1LkSpo

Helena Blavatsky -- The East Comes West (re-broadcast) – The Hermetic Hour radio podcast:
http://www.blogtalkradio.com/the-hermetic-hour/2016/08/05/helena-blavatsky--the-east-comes-west-re-broadcast

Spirited defense of Blavatsky podcast (Michael Tsarion, David Whitehead) Unslaved Podcast: Helena Blavatsky, The Truth
http://aftertheshift.blogspot.ca/2017/01/unslaved-podcast-helena-blavatsky-truth.html

Nice slideshow of Blavatsky’s life, family and associates:
http://www.theosophycanada.com/hp-blavatsky-a-pictorial-biography.php

An introduction about Theosophical Society, Helena Blavatsky .  Jan 21, 2017 These videos are presented by www.awgpsouth.org, www.missionrk.com
worldwide.chat/Madam_Blavatsky_&_Theosophy/9yyr4cyBNlY.video

K. Paul Johnson reminisceces about public radio Blavatsky documentary from Helen Borten’s series A Sense of Place, Madame Blavatsky and the Colonel :
https://beta.prx.org/stories/347
https://beta.prx.org/stories/348
http://www.historyoftheadepts.com/historyoftheadepts/?p=1967\

The Legacy of H.P. Blavatsky The 130th Adyar Summer Convention prevents an interesting lineup of conferences on HPB.
http://www.theosophical.org/programs/upcoming-conferences

Mitch Horowitz: HPB and the Secret Teachings
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SIqlw020DQU

Stephan Hoeller: Blavatsky and the Once and Future Gnosis
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AcNkoQXUbWA

Michael Gomes - Who was HPB?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aArPJidVsLw