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To: Father Terrence who wrote (1026)	7/15/1999 9:51:00 PM
From: Level Head	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1615

I enjoy fictional reading myself, but it would be difficult in this case to achieve the appropriate suspension of disbelief.<g> Heinlein's "Gulf" is a similar tale, but far more readable, I'd wager. And on topic, regarding soothsayers: "Cassandra didn't get half the kicking around she deserved" - Lazarus Long. Level Head

To: Father Terrence who wrote (1026)	7/16/1999 12:22:00 AM
From: Richnorth	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1615

If I remember correctly, that boy was Lobsang Rampa? In one of Madame Blavatsky's books (sorry, I don't remember which now) published in the 1900s, there was mention of something similar to Lobsang's descriptions including those of a whole slew of things and inventions yet to be known to modern man. There was also mention of the "Great White Brotherhood", a conclave of Masters (people of great mystical development and attainment) in an enclave close to some remote monasteries in the Himalayas. One of the Grandmasters bears the name of Ku-Hoot-Mi who was said to have materialised his presence several times from afar at various important conferences of Theosophists and of Rosicrucians. All this sounds incredible (or sci-fi - like) today and, no doubt, will be pooh-poohed as so much hogwash and bullshit. But lotsa' theosophists and other mystics, at the turn of the century, were firm believers.