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Magic and Mystery in Tibet -
« on: March 22, 2013, 11:26:09 am »
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Seeker, adventurer, pilgrim, and scholar, David-Neel (1868–1969) was the first European woman to explore the once-forbidden city of Lhasa. This memoir offers an objective account of the supernatural events she witnessed during the 1920s among the mystics and hermits of Tibet — including levitation, telepathy, and the ability to walk on water. Includes 32 photographs.

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« Reply #1 on: March 22, 2013, 11:38:42 am »
G'day,

I,ve had this book for a good amount of time but never read the chapter on psy experience from start to finish.  Highly reccomend this book!

Oddly this is the only book i packed on holidays and it,s the only chapter i need to read seeing i have spent a bit of time of late weeding graves along with my family tossing coins asking the dead questions.... As they do here in Taiwan  :P

Heck only ct stuff i seen is in my junk box for the last two weeks from survivallife.... Faaaarrrrk.  They need to read this chapter and chill out.  A demon will only be created if there is will huh ?   ;D



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Re: Magic and Mystery in Tibet -
« Reply #2 on: March 22, 2013, 02:38:01 pm »

you have introduced an new author to me Soma..thanks

had to go and do the usual looking up..what a life she had almost 100 years of it
and it's always interesting to see who some of the authors i have read are influenced by..
the watering down of ideas with personal twists and layering is fascinating

hope you're having some fun pulling all those weeds and being blessed for it.. ;)








Alexandra David-Néel born Louise Eugénie Alexandrine Marie David (born in Saint-Mandé, Val-de-Marne on 24 October 1868, and died in Digne-les-Bains, on 8 September 1969) was a Belgian-French explorer, spiritualist, Buddhist, anarchist,[1][2][3] and writer, most known for her visit to Lhasa, Tibet, in 1924, when it was forbidden to foreigners. David-Néel wrote over 30 books about Eastern religion, philosophy, and her travels. Her teachings influenced beat writers Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg, philosopher Alan Watts, and Theosophist Benjamin Creme.



Born in Paris in 1868, she moved to Ixelles (Brussels) at the age of six. During her childhood she had a very strong desire for freedom and spirituality. At the age of 18, she had already visited England, Switzerland and Spain on her own, and she was studying in Madame Blavatsky's Theosophical Society. "She joined various secret societies - she would reach the thirtieth degree in the mixed Scottish Rite of Freemasonry - while feminist and anarchist groups greeted her with enthusiasm...In 1899, Alexandra composed an anarchist treatise with a preface by the French geographer and anarchist Elisée Reclus (1820-1905). Publishers were, however, too terrified to publish the book, though her friend Jean Haustont printed copies himself and it was eventually translated into five languages."[4]

 Travel to India in 1890In 1890 and 1891, she traveled through India, returning only when she was running out of money.

 Opéra singer in VietnamFrom 1895-1897 she was prima donna with a touring French opera company in Indochina, appearing at the Hanoi Opera House and elsewhere as La Traviata and Carmen.

In Tunis in 1900 she met and lived with the railroad engineer Philippe Néel, marrying him in 1904.

 Travel to Sikkim in 1911In 1911 Alexandra left Néel and traveled for the second time to India, to further her study of Buddhism. She was invited to the royal monastery of Sikkim, where she met Maharaj Kumar (crown prince) Sidkeong Tulku Namgyal. She became Sidkeong's "confidante and spiritual sister" (according to Ruth Middleton), perhaps his lover (Foster & Foster). She also met the 13th Dalai Lama twice in 1912, and had the opportunity to ask him many questions about Buddhism—a feat unprecedented for a European woman at that time.

In the period 1914-1916 she lived in a cave in Sikkim, near the Tibetan border, learning spirituality, together with the young (born 1899) Sikkimese monk Aphur Yongden, who became her lifelong traveling companion, and whom she would adopt later. From there they trespassed into Tibetan territory, meeting the Panchen Lama in Shigatse (August 1916). When the British authorities learned of this—Sikkim was then a British protectorate—Alexandra and Aphur were forced to leave the country.

 Travel to Japan in 1916Unable to return to Europe in the middle of World War I, Alexandra and Yongden traveled to Japan.

 Travel to Tibet in 1924In Japan Alexandra met Ekai Kawaguchi, who had visited Lhasa in 1901 disguised as a Chinese doctor, and this inspired them to visit Lhasa disguised as pilgrims. After traversing China from east to west, they reached Lhasa in 1924, and spent 2 months there.

 Return to France in 1928In 1928 Alexandra legally separated from Philippe, but they continued to exchange letters and he kept supporting her till his death in 1941. Alexandra settled in Digne (Provence), and during the next nine years she wrote books. In 1929, she published her most famous and beloved work, Mystiques et Magiciens du Tibet (Magic and Mystery in Tibet).

 Travel to east Tibetan highlands in Tibet 1937In 1937, Yongden and Alexandra went to Tibet through the former Soviet Union, traveling there during the second World War. They eventually ended up in Tachienlu, where she continued her investigations of Tibetan sacred literature.

One minor mystery relating to Alexandra David-Neel has a solution. In Forbidden Journey, p. 284, the authors wonder how Mme. David-Neel's secretary, Violet Sydney, made her way back to the West in 1939 after Sous des nuées d'orage (Storm Clouds) was completed in Tachienlu. Peter Goullart's Land of the Lamas (not in Forbidden Journey's bibliography), on pp. 110–113 gives an account of his accompanying Ms. Sydney partway back, then putting her under the care of Lolo bandits to continue the journey to Chengdu. Mme. David-Neel evidently remained in Tachienlu for the duration of the war.

While in Eastern Tibet Alexandra and Yongden completed circumambulation of the holy mountain Amnye Machen.

 Return to France in 1946The pair returned to France in 1946. Alexandra was then 78 years old. In 1955 Yongden died at age 56.

 Death in France in 1969Alexandra continued to study and write at Digne till her death at age nearly 101. According to her last will and testament, her ashes and those of Yongden were mixed together and dispersed in the Ganges in 1973 at Varanasi, by her friend Marie-Madeleine Peyronnet.



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« Reply #3 on: April 10, 2013, 12:06:02 pm »
Yeah honestly everyone should read her work who are interested in the history and science of culture and Awareness.

There is always a BUT.  There may be a an explanation into how she was afforded that luxury, it sound's great in her book and I have no doubt Neel earned her way, but at the same time it make's one wonder how much PSI Ping Pong really was going prior to the ease of travel that we now live in !

A french woman rocks up to Tibet... COUGH hmmm Rosicruician anyone ? 


 


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