Lobsang Rampa

And his father was a plumber.

Well, at some point, Cyril decided that he was possessed by the spirit of a Tibetan llama, And he started going by the name Tuesday Lobsang Rampa.

Love it.

It's almost as good as Jesus Christ Lightning Amen.

And we're going to start reading them on the show because they're all fucking awful.

But it's the special book that I wanted to bring up, and I'm holding it right now.

He was, you know, Cyril was channeling Tuesday Lobsang Rampa.

By the way, the man died in 1981, so this is not, should not be a going concern now, but some of his books are still in print.

He says, "...there had, of course, been other weird, cranky bestsellers.

In 1950, Emanuel Velikovsky's World in Collision revived the catastrophe theory of cosmology, the one about the moons hitting the Earth, and had claimed that in the past the comet sprung from Jupiter had nearly hit the Earth, creating havoc, sinking Atlantis, and among other things, proving several miracles in the Bible." Lost civilizations have been a staple of the occult since at least as far back as Madame Blavatsky, and in 1956 an eccentric Englishman named Cyril Henry Hoskins had a hit under the odd pseudonym of Tuesday Lobsang Rampa with The Third Eye, the autobiography of a Tibetan llama in which he tells of having his pineal gland open through trepanning, an idea that would catch on with quite a few people in the 60s.

There was no shortage of unusual books, but no one had put the pieces together.

correlated the contents of the mind, as H.P. Lovecraft warns his readers never to do, into an overall vision of things, nor link them with the latest advances in science, like quantum physics and genetics.