Speed Dating and how not to run Speed Networking

Speed dating is a formalized matchmaking process or dating system whose purpose is to encourage people to meet a large number of new people. "Speed dating", as two separate words, is often used as a generic term for similar events.

The first speed-dating event took place in Beverly Hills in late 1998. Soon afterward, several commercial services began offering secular round-robin dating events across the United States and Canada.

Men and women are rotated to meet each other over a series of short "dates", usually lasting from 3 to 8 minutes depending on the organization running the event. (It ensures you don’t get stuck with someone incompatible any longer than necessary.)

At the end of each interval, the organizer rings a bell or clinks a glass to signal the participants to move on to the next date.

At the end of the event participants submit to the organizers a list of who they would like to provide their contact information to. If there is a match, contact information is forwarded to both parties. Contact information cannot be traded during the initial meeting, in order to reduce pressure to accept or reject a suitor to his or her face.

These events typically balance the gender ratio, striving for exactly the same number of men and women, while others have a more "party" atmosphere and only aim for an approximately matching number.


Some feel that speed dating has some obvious advantages over most other venues for meeting people, such as bars, discotheques, etc. in that everybody is purportedly there to meet someone, they are grouped into compatible age ranges, it is time-efficient, and the structured interaction eliminates the need to introduce oneself. Unlike many bars, A speed dating event will, by necessity, be quiet enough for people to talk comfortably.

I was a participant in Speed Networking. It was inevitable.


Standing in line marking time, waiting for the welfare dime
'Cause they can't buy a job
The man in the silk suit hurries by as he catches the poor ladies' eyes
Just for fun he says "get a job"

That's just the way it is
Some things will never change
That's just the way it is
Ah, but don't you believe them




They say hey little boy you can't go where the others go
'Cause you don't look like they do
Said hey old man how can you stand to think that way
Did you really think about it before you made the rules
He said, Son

That's just the way it is
Some things will never change
That's just the way it is
Ah, but don't you believe them


But no one paid attention to the time. (The essential key to the whole thing)


Well they passed a law in '64 to give those who ain't got a little more
But it only goes so far
Because the law don't change another's mind when all it sees at the hiring time
Is the line on the color bar

That's just the way it is
Some things will never change
That's just the way it is
Ah, but don't you believe them

And they kept going, and going and going. And there was no one in charge that seemed to know it wasn’t working.

That's just the way it is
Some things will never change
That's just the way it is
Ah, but don't you believe them

The irrational Beliefs (iB’s) of REBT

[ see http://pvrguymale.blogspot.com/2011/07/dr.html ]

1. The idea that it is a dire necessity for adults to be loved by significant others for almost everything they do -- instead of their concentrating on their own self-respect, on winning approval for practical purposes, and on loving rather than on being loved.

2. The idea that certain acts are awful or wicked, and that people who perform such acts should be severely damned -- instead of the idea that certain acts are self-defeating or antisocial, and that people who perform such acts are behaving stupidly, ignorantly, or neurotically, and would be better helped to change. People's poor behaviors do not make them rotten individuals.

3. The idea that it is horrible when things are not the way we like them to be -- instead of the idea that it is too bad, that we would better try to change or control bad conditions so that they become more satisfactory, and, if that is not possible, we had better temporarily accept and gracefully lump their existence.

4. The idea that human misery is invariably externally caused and is forced on us by outside people and events -- instead of the idea that neurosis is largely caused by the view that we take of unfortunate conditions.

5. The idea that if something is or may be dangerous or fearsome we should be terribly upset and endlessly obsess about it -- instead of the idea that one would better frankly face it and render it non-dangerous and, when that is not possible, accept the inevitable.

6. The idea that it is easier to avoid than to face life difficulties and self-responsibilities -- instead of the idea that the so-called easy way is usually much harder in the long run.

7. The idea that we absolutely need something other or stronger or greater than yourself on which to rely -- instead of the idea that it is better to take the risks of thinking and acting less dependently .

8. The idea that we should be thoroughly competent, intelligent, and achieving in all possible respects -- instead of the idea that we would better do rather than always need to do well and accept ourselves as a quite imperfect creature, who has general human limitations and specific fallibilities.

9. The idea that because something once strongly affected our life, it should indefinitely affect it -- instead of the idea that we can learn from our past experiences but not be overly-attached to or prejudiced by them.

10. The idea that we must have certain and perfect control over things -- instead of the idea that the world is full of probability and chance and that we can still enjoy life despite this.

11. The idea that human happiness can be achieved by inertia and inaction -- instead of the idea that we tend to be happiest when we are vitally absorbed in creative pursuits, or when we are devoting ourselves to people or projects outside ourselves.

12. The idea that we have virtually no control over our emotions and that we cannot help feeling disturbed about things -- instead of the idea that we have real control over our destructive emotions if we choose to work at changing the must-erbatory (I must …) hypotheses which we often employ to create them.


• Hidden Persuaders is a term used by Geoffrey Dean and Ivan Kelly (2003) to describe affective, perceptual, and cognitive biases or illusions that lead to erroneous beliefs. It is also the name of a 1957 book by Vance Packard. He chronicled the many methods, some pretty open and obvious, that advertisers use in their quest to manipulate the thoughts and actions of consumers. Packard attempted to expose corporate propaganda as a kind of mind control operation, especially in its use of subliminal messaging.
• Life Game Alcoholic from Games People Play by Dr. Eric Berne. The players: the Alcoholic ( the Victim), the Persecutor , the Rescuer, the Patsy or the Dummy and finally the Connection . And, of course, the Alcoholic will try to make thePersecutor or theRescuer or thePatsy theVictim.
• "... [T]here is a direct connection between what occurs in your consciousness and what occurs in your external life... if you initiate change internally a corresponding change will happen externally." [The Path of Least Resistance by Robert Fritz]

Letting Go of REBT’s Irrational Beliefs (iB’s) with The Work: http://goalhypnosis.blogspot.com/2011/07/letting-go-of-rebts-irrational-beliefs.html

The Infinite Way

Joel Solomon Goldsmith (1892–1964) was a New Thought author, teacher, spiritual healer, mystic, and founder of the Infinite Way movement.

Joel was the first child; he had a younger brother and sister. His early life was probably like that of most youngsters of that age and time, even though, young as he was, he later confessed to feeling a certain sense of detachment and even sadness about the world into which he had been thrust by birth, a feeling not usually found in children. Joel was never taught any of the precepts of the Judaic faith except that all the children were given instruction in the Ten Commandents.

Joel never completed high school. His frequently playing hooky to see Shakespeare matinees and an argument with the principal put an end to that.

His father introduced him to sale where he demonstrated an innate intuitive faculty that knew exactly the right thing to buy at the right time. Joel was always intuitively aware of certain spiritual principles. If a salesman were to go into a business house in the realization that he had a good product and that if the buyer needed it today, it was available to him, and if he didn't need it that was all right too, the buyer would feel that the salesman was not coming there to make a sale, but coming to be of service.

But it was Christian Science that he was drawn to. First in 1915, while on a business trip in England, when his father was healed by the prayer of a Christian Science practitioner.

A second time when he became critically ill with tuberculosis and was given three months to live. He decided that he would seek help from a Christian Science practitioner, which he did, and in three months he made a complete recovery.

A third time while in Detroit he developed a bad cold sought out a Christian Science practitioner. At first the man said it was Saturday and that he didn't take patients on Saturday. That day he always spent in meditation and prayer. To this Joel replied 'Of course you wouldn't turn me out looking the way I do.' And so he stayed. And spent two hours.

As he later said:“Long before the two hours were up, I was healed of that cold, and when I went out on the street I found I couldn't smoke any more. When eating my dinner I found I couldn't drink any more. The following week I found I couldn't play cards any more, and I also found that I couldn't go to the horse races any more. And the businessman had died.”

"Within thirty-six hours after my first spiritual experience, a woman buyer who was a customer of mine said that if I would pray for her she would be healed. So I closed my eyes, and I am happy to say that I have always been honest with God. I said, 'Father, You know that I don't know how to pray, and I certainly know nothing about healing. So if there is anything I should do, tell me.' "And very, very clearly, as much so as if I were hearing a voice, I realized that man is not a healer. That satisfied me. That was the extent of my praying, but the woman had her healing, a healing of alcoholism.”

"The next day a traveling salesman came in and said, 'Joel, I don't know what your religion is, but I do know that if you pray for me, I could get well.' And so I closed my eyes and said, 'Father, here's another customer!' But while my eyes were closed and nothing was happening, the salesman touched me and said, 'Wonderful, the pain is gone.”

A transformation had taken place. In his consciousness, not anywhere else, not outside. All of a sudden his whole thought was on God and healing, the same individual, a realization of true identity, an experience that must have taken place in the minds of many others before and since.

Thus marked the beginning of Joel's career as an independent practitioner of spiritual healing noted for his remarkable work in transforming people's lives. After the publication of his seminal book, The Infinite Way,in 1947, he traveled throughout the world as a teacher and a healer. Although his message was neither organized nor advertised, students of The Infinite Way increased in numbers. Today, a worldwide student body exists which continues to practice and preserve his work. http://www.joelgoldsmith.com/

"The world is not in need of a new religion, nor is the world in need of a new philosophy: What the world needs is healing and regeneration. The world needs people who, through devotion to God, are so filled with the Spirit that they can be instruments through which healing take place, because healing is important to everybody." - JOEL S. GOLDSMITH

the 'Presence'

Henry Thomas Hamblin (1873 - 1958) was an English mystic, New Thought author, and founder of magazine The Science of Thought Review, which achieved wide readership.
Born at Walworth, London in 1873, into a poor family, he was determined to emerge from the rut which everyone was destined to fall into without being able to afford proper school and training. After a difficult start working in various jobs and being in debt he decided to become an Optician. Despite lack of money and poor prospects, his determination won him through and he qualified. He went on to become an extremely successful businessman and founded Theodore Hamblin (now Dolland and Aitchison) frequented by royalty, the rich and the famous. Yet, far from making him happy, his success gave him a growing sense of depression. As if something lay inside him that had not yet found a voice.
All through his life Hamblin had experienced visionary experiences where he came in contact with a Divine Presence: "... It is not possible to describe such an experience," he wrote. "All care, anxiety and fear vanished, and I felt that I was cradled in Divine Love.... The deep peace of the Eternal flowed through me like a river; yet at the same time it was as though I was being carried along on a stream of Divine Bliss..."

But the sudden and unexpected death of his ten-year-old-son was to effect him more than his nocturnal experiences. He realized that none of his worldly success had made him happy. This time he knew he had to give that unexpressed part of him a voice.

He had never found any of the answers he wanted in the Church and he realized that, rather than seek the answers outside of himself, he had to look within.

Once again, he made contact with the 'Presence'. And realized it held the key to the peace he was searching for. All the time his search was leading him nearer to discovering the way his thoughts affected his performance and outlook.
It was around the early 1920's that he began to write. The words flowed from him. He found writing clarified his thoughts. One of his first books written in this new phase of his career was Within You Is The Power. Other books soon followed. Hamblin believed that there is a source of abundance which, when contacted, could change a person's entire life. As long as people blamed their circumstances they were stuck in the 'victim role', but if they moved in harmony with their inner source their life could be full of abundance and harmony.

Soon after this Hamblin was to set up a magazine based on the principles of Applied Right Thinking, The Science of Thought Review. In the 1920's The Science of Thought Review was the only one of its kind in existence, its readership soon caught on and became worldwide. Among his friends and contemporaries that were to contribute to the magazine were Joel Goldsmith, Henry Victor Morgan [1], Graham Ikin, Clare Cameron [2] and Derek Neville [3], all of them prolific and successful writers and mystics.

Henry Thomas Hamblin worked right up to the end of his life in 1958.
[1] http://pvrguymale.blogspot.com/2011/07/master-christian.html
[2] CLARE CAMERON (1896- ). Mystic, writer, poet and a gypsy soul.
[3] Derek Neville (1911 - 1976) Early in 1932, as a young man, Derek set out from London to walk to Land's End. All he had on him was a little card, on which were written the words, "Derek Neville, in Search of God". His life on the road, nomadic existence and experiences among the homeless and down-and-out's was to have a profound effect upon him as recorded in “Journey of the Heart”. He also contributed many articles to the Science of Thought Review magazine founded by his friend Henry Thomas Hamblin.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Thomas_Hamblin
http://www.thehamblintrust.org.uk/index.htm

If we should find ourselves faced by a state of lack and limitation, we can certainly speak to God about it. We know that such a state of affairs is not according to the will of God, consequently we can ask for deliverance and a state of harmonious adjustment. But we should also pray that whatever there may be in us which is the cause or partly the cause of our lack, that this may be removed or changed.
My Search for Truth by Harry Hamblin

"Love is the key to every situation in life."

There is an ever-present principle of perfection which, when co-operated with, brings our own personal life into a state of order. There is beneath the surface of things an inner harmony into which we can enter, and with which we can become at-one.

This is the Inner Secret of all true religions - to show people how to find this interior order and harmony, and to become adjusted to them, and at one with them.

Many today are finding their life discordant: nothing goes smoothly: everywhere they go they find trouble, and everything they do is done with strain and friction. The cause of all this disharmony is that they are out of adjustment with the principle of order; they are not working in agreement with the laws which govern their being: they are not thinking and living in accord with the interior harmony which is beneath the surface of things.

They all desire that their outward life should be adjusted and harmonized, but before this can become possible they must themselves become inwardly adjusted to the laws and principles of life. Infinite Wisdom is always ready and willing to lead us into the way of order and peace. Infinite Love for ever calls us to enter the Inner Harmony which is the Reality. Also, all the experiences of life have the same object in view; to bring us into a state of Divine Adjustment.

The object of this book is to help people to find their way by an understanding of life and the laws and principles which govern it.

Divine Adjustment by Henry Thomas Hamblin - 1930

"The Master Christian"

Henry Victor Morgan was born in 1865. Henry Morgan was widely known as a metaphysical preacher of the early 20th century. Henry Morgan and his wife published "The Master Christian" from the early 1920s until his wife's death in 1931. After that it was published only intermittently. He was minister to the Church of the Healing Christ in Tacoma, Washington, until 1952. In 1912 Henry Victor Morgan took the pulpit. He changed the church allegiance from Universalist to Divine Science and the name of the church to Church of the Healing Christ. He died in 1952.

Park Universalist Church 1893-1925
at the present site 1904-1925
Church of the Healing Christ 1926-1979
Church of Religious Science Center for Spiritual Living 1980-Present

Rev. Victor Henry Morgan of Tacoma, Washington, a Universalist pastor in good standing, preaches from his pulpit the New Thought philosophy, and practises mental healing; but prefers to stay in the organization to which he belongs.
“A History of the New Thought Movement” by Horatio W. Dresser [1919].

"There comes to my heart more and more
This infinite spirit of trust,
That in spite of all earth-seeming wrongs,
The universe ever is just.
"No matter how heavy the load, nor how bitter
the trials we have known,
Though broken and crushed in the dust,
We are reaping just what we have sown.''
Henry Victor Morgan

The convention of 1912 was held in Los Angeles. Mr. Douglass, in sending out the call for this convention, stated that all New Thought societies were cordially invited to send delegates, pointing out that the invitation applied to all bodies holding similar views, "though they may not adopt the same name. . . . This is the first time that the East and the West come together in a mutual understanding and fellowship, for a larger and more aggressive propagandism; and marked results are looked for."
The meetings of the convention began June 25 and continued until June 30. The subjects for the chief sessions were, The Divine Man, The Resurrecting Power, Unity, Joy and Beauty, Peace; and the speakers included Myra G. Frenyear[1], William Farwell, Harriet Hale Rix, Alfred Tomson, Harry Gaze, Clinton A. Billig, Henry Frank, Mrs. M. E. T. Chapin, C. Josephine Barton, Anna. W. Mills, James Porter Mills, A. P. Barton, and Henry Victor Morgan.
A History of the New Thought Movement by Horatio W. Dresser [1919]

“Today on the heights I stand Above the sea of thought,
And look o’er the changing drift At the baubles for which men fought;
That slip through their clinging hands And ever remain uncaught,
Unchained through the drift of years They float o’er the surface clear;
And forever warm hands reach out As the illusions of draw near:
Till the weary hands reach out As the illusions of life draw near:
Toady on the heights I stand Where God’s winds sing lullaby,
And no more reach for the gleam Of the baubles for which men die –
For I reach to the heart of God And master of fate am I.”

~ HENRY VICTOR MORGAN

[1]

·         SAN DIEGO-House of Blessing, 2109 1nd. St., Myra G. Frenyear, Master Mind Magazine, April 1912 to September 1912  By Annie Rix Militz

House of Blessing (Higher Thought) — 2109 Second, Myra G. Frenyear, minister. Full text of "San Diego City and County Directory - 1911"  "San Diego City and County Directory - 1912"

·         Frenyear, Myra G Suite 2, 17 Durham St., Boston, Mass. Mass.) Universal peace congress (13th : 1904 : Boston. Official report of the thirteenth Universal peace congress, held at Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.A., October third to eighth, 1904. Reported by William J. Rose, Boston. Ed. by the secretary of the congress . (page 39 of 41)

Frenyear, Miss Myra G., Associated Charities, Boston.  

Full text of "General exercises : of the International Congress of Charities, Correction and Philanthropy, Chicago, June, 1893 ; together with a list of officers and members, programme and rules" 

 

Ghost-writing

Howard Phillips "H. P." Lovecraft (1890 –1937) was an American author of horror, fantasy and science fiction, especially the subgenre known as weird fiction.

Lovecraft's guiding literary principle was what he termed "cosmicism" or "cosmic horror", the idea that life is incomprehensible to human minds and that the universe is fundamentally alien. Lovecraft is best known for his Cthulhu Mythos, as well as the Necronomicon, a fictional grimoire of magical rites and forbidden lore. His works often challenged the values of the Enlightenment, Romanticism, Humanism and Christianity.

The central theme in most of Lovecraft's works is that of forbidden knowledge.
In his late teens, Lovecraft got involved in national amateur journalism, a popular movement of the time whose members wrote essays, criticism, poetry and fiction which were then published in amateur journals.

Lovecraft quickly rose to prominence, eventually becoming president of one of the two rival organizations. His early grounding in the classics plus a thorough command of English made his contributions highly sought after.

Soon, his friends were encouraging to take up editorial and revision work. His self-image of a New England gentleman bred an extreme distaste for 'commercialism,' so at first he worked for free. As he moved into his twenties, a growing awareness of his dismal financial situation forced him to charge as well as advertise.

L. Sprague de Camp [1], in his biography, Lovecraft [2], states that the author originally charged a ridiculously low 1/8¢ per word. De Camp reproduces Lovecraft's rate card from 1933 showing he had raised his rates considerably. Unfortunately, not everyone paid their bills, and he would not stoop to the un-gentlemanly act of dunning those clients, so that he often made even less per word.

The majority of his work was correcting punctuation and grammar or metrical mistakes. One of his first regular clients was Rev. David Van Bush [3], who remained a steady client until the mid-1920s, hiring Lovecraft to ghost-write books such as Pike's Peak or Bust, Practical Psychology and Sex Life, Grit and Gumption, and Character Analysis (How to Read People at Sight.) Lovecraft chafed at the inane material and at Bush's success, but as Bush provided his most steady income stream for many years, Lovecraft had to maintain the relationship.

Over the years he worked briefly as a collection agent, ticket taker at a movie theater, and at grading school papers. He always came back to ghost-writing.

Lovecraft continued to write his own stories, but the frequency slowed almost in inverse proportion to the growth of his fame. Ghost-writing continued to provide as much as two-thirds of his annual income even as his financial situation continued to deteriorate. By the time of his death in 1937, he was eating little more than canned chili, several cups of coffee and little ice cream per day.

Does a cold-reading psychic in New York have a ghost-writer in Toronto, Ontario? Do both of them hear from “Francine”?

[1] Lyon Sprague de Camp (1907 –2000) was an American author of science fiction and fantasy books, non-fiction and biography. In a writing career spanning 60 years, he wrote over 100 books, including novels and notable works of non-fiction, including biographies of other important fantasy authors. He "was widely regarded as an imaginative and innovative writer and was an important figure in the heyday of science fiction, from the late 1930's through the late 1940's."

In 1939, he married Catherine Crook, with whom he collaborated on numerous works of fiction and nonfiction, beginning in the 1960s.

L. Sprague de Camp and Catherine Crook de Camp

L. Sprague de Camp (center) with Robert A. Heinlein and Isaac Asimov.

[2] Lovecraft: a Biography is a 1975 biography of the writer H. P. Lovecraft by science-fiction writer L. Sprague de Camp, first published by Doubleday.





[3] http://pvrguymale.blogspot.com/2010/05/how-to-know-when-you-have-truth.html
http://pvrguymale.blogspot.com/2010/05/how-to-think-about-yourself.html
http://pvrguymale.blogspot.com/2010/05/there-is-no-doubt-that-our-thinking.html

Right Thinking.

Right thinking has different meanings to different people. To the beginner it consists in thinking positive thoughts in place of negative ones, together with a call to high heaven for help. The negative thought and its corresponding positive opposite are the negative and positive poles of the same thing. We can live at either end according to our thoughts. Here follows a negative train of thought, together with a Positive counteracting opposite, that will I hope, serve as a key to future right thinking and overcoming.
NEGATIVE Thought or Suggestion:
Life is evil and cruel. What terrible thing or evil is it that may affect me at any moment? Failure, bankruptcy, loss of employment, workhouse, disease, accidents, operation, hospital, bereavement?
POSITIVE Thought or Affirmation:
Life is good and is always striving to bring to me the highest good. No evil can come nigh me: nothing can hurt or destroy. The Divine blessing rests on all my affairs, the blessing that maketh rich and addeth no sorrow. The life of God fills me with health, strength and joy of living.
The Power Of Thought by Henry Thomas Hamblin

"We cannot live for ourselves alone; indeed, we begin really to live only when we live for others - for the Whole. It is your privilege and mine to be co-workers with God in leading souls to a realisation of their Divine Kinship and Oneness with the Source of all"
H.T. Hamblin

Charles Webster Leadbeater

C(harles) W(ebster) Leadbeater (1854 –1934) was an influential member of the Theosophical Society, author on occult subjects and co-initiator with J. I. Wedgwood of the Liberal Catholic Church. Originally a clergyman of the Church of England, his interest in spiritualism caused him to end his affiliation with the Church of England in favour of the Theosophical Society, where he became an associate of Annie Besant.
He became a high ranking officer of the Society, but resigned during 1906, after accusations that he had been engaging in mutual masturbation with teenage boys in his care. With Besant's assistance he was readmitted a few years later, and although similar rumours occurred throughout his career, Leadbeater's talents as a prolific author on occultism kept him an important presence in Theosophy until his death in 1934.

Annie Besant

Annie Besant (1847 – 1933) was a prominent Theosophist, women's rights activist, writer and orator and supporter of Irish and Indian self rule.

In 1889, she was asked to write a review for the Pall Mall Gazette on The Secret Doctrine, a book by H.P. Blavatsky. After reading it, she sought an interview with its author, meeting Blavatsky in Paris. In this way she was converted to Theosophy.


In 1890 Besant met Helena Blavatsky and over the next few years her interest in Theosophy grew while her interest in secular matters waned. She became a member of the Society and a highly successful lecturer in Theosophy.

Besant met fellow Theosophist C(harles) W(ebster) Leadbeater in London in April 1894. They became close co-workers in the Theosophical Movement and would remain so for the rest of their lives. Leadbeater claimed clairvoyance and reputedly helped Besant become clairvoyant herself in the following year.

Annie Besant with Henry Olcott (left) [1] and Charles Leadbeater (right) in Adyar in December 1905

Besant came to believe in the imminent appearance of an "emissary", who was identified by Theosophists as the so-called World Teacher.

In 1909, soon after Besant's assumption of the presidency, Leadbeater "discovered" fourteen-year-old Jiddu Krishnamurti. [ http://pvrguymale.blogspot.com/2009/02/krishnamurti.html ]
The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and feel the depth, the delight, the ecstasy of it, you will discover that for you the world is transformed. ~ Jiddu Krishnamurti

Besant soon became the boys' legal guardian with the consent of their father, who was very poor and could not take care of them. However, his father later changed his mind and began a legal battle to regain the guardianship, against the will of the boys. Early in their relationship, Krishnamurti and Besant had developed a very close bond and he considered her a surrogate mother – a role she happily accepted.

Krishnamurti in England in 1911 with his brother Nitya and the Theosophists Annie Besant and George Arundale[2].

His love for Besant never waned, as also was the case with Besant's feelings towards him; concerned for his well being after he declared his independence from the , the Theosophical Society she had purchased 6 acres of land near the Theosophical Society estate which later became the headquarters of the Krishnamurti Foundation India.

[1] Colonel Henry Steel Olcott (1832 –1907) was an American military officer, journalist, lawyer and the co-founder and first President of the Theosophical Society.


[2] Dr. George Sidney Arundale (1878 —1945) was a theosophist, freemason, president of the Theosophical Society Adyar and bishop of the Liberal Catholic Church.

Alice Bailey

Alice Ann Bailey (1880 –1949), known as Alice A. Bailey or AAB to her followers, was an influential writer and theosophist in what she termed "Ageless Wisdom". This included occult teachings, "esoteric" psychology and healing, astrological and other philosophic and religious themes. Alice Bailey was born as Alice LaTrobe Bateman, in Manchester, England. She moved to the United States in 1907, where she spent most of her life as a writer and teacher. In 1915 Bailey discovered the Theosophical Society and the work of Helena Petrovna Blavatsky. Theosophical Society states that Bailey became involved in 1917.

Bailey wrote that, in 1919, she was contacted by a Master known as The Tibetan (later associated with the initials D.K., and eventually the name Djwhal Khul). Bailey stated that after initial resistance, she was eventually persuaded to write down the communications from this source. She wrote for 30 years, from 1919 to 1949. Her works describe a wide-ranging system of esoteric thought covering such topics as how spirituality relates to the solar system, meditation, healing, spiritual psychology, the destiny of nations, and prescriptions for society in general.

Her writings were influenced by the works of Madame Blavatsky. Blavatsky channeled DK , so Bailey channeled DK. Though Bailey's writings differ from the orthodox Theosophy of Madame Blavatsky, they also have much in common with it. She wrote about religious themes, including Christianity, though her writings are fundamentally different from many aspects of Christianity and of other orthodox religions. Her vision of a unified society includes a global "spirit of religion" different from traditional religious forms and including the concept of the Age of Aquarius.

Blavatsky

Helena Petrovna Blavatsky (born as Helena von Hahn; (1831-1891)) was a founder of Theosophy and the Theosophical Society.
Blavatsky grew up amid a culture rich in spirituality and traditional Russian mythologies, which introduced her to the realm of the supernatural. Helena's great-grand nephew Boris de Zirkoff ( 1902–1981)[1] was an active member of the Theosophical Society and editor of the Blavatsky Collected Writings.
Blavatsky was a world traveler who eventually settled in India where,

Rational Emotive Behavior

Dr. Albert Ellis (1913 – 2007) was an American psychologist who in 1955 developed Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy (REBT), inspired by many of the teachings of Asian, Greek, Roman and modern philosophers. REBT is one form of cognitive behavior therapy (CBT) and was first expounded by Ellis in the mid-1950s; development continued until his death in 2007.
Ellis explained REBT:

"It is to the sick and not to the well, that this is written;

to open their eyes, so that they can see how they have been deceived."

If opinion is knowledge, then there is no knowledge, for every person has an opinion. Now if opinion is knowledge, then why is reason introduced? This very fact proves that knowledge is the destruction of an opinion or disease, for what we know, we have no opinion about.
Now disease is what follows an opinion. It is made up of mind directed by error, and truth is the destruction of an opinion.

These ideas and hundreds of others have been given to explain the effect of the mind. All of them admit disease as one thing and the mind another. This theory that mind is one thing and disease another has left the people in darkness and caused more misery than all other evils put together. It has always been admitted that a theory that cannot be put in practice is not very good.

The mind is a spiritual matter which, being agitated, disturbs the spirit. This disturbance contains no knowledge of itself, but produces a chemical change of the fluids of the system. These disturbances may be produced in various ways, for instance: by the death of a friend, or by religious excitement, witchcraft, etc. All of the above contain what is called knowledge, which is communicated to the spirit and sets it to work to form disease after the form the spirit gives the mind.

The mind being the matter under the control of the spirit, it is capable of producing any phenomenon.
October 1859

Rochester Rappings

The Fox sisters were three sisters from New York who played an important role in the creation of Spiritualism. The three sisters were Leah Fox (1814–1890), Margaret Fox (also called Maggie) (1833–1893) and Kate Fox (1837–1892). The two younger sisters used "rappings" to convince their much older sister and others that they were communicating with spirits. Their older sister then took charge of them and managed their careers for some time. They all enjoyed success as mediums for many years.