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Who Is T.
Lopsang Rampa? I don’t know if you know
who Christopher Hill is. Did you ever hear of him? He has a group that makes
and refines and sells Spirolina. He makes about three-million dollars a year
on the sale of Spirolina. Anyway, he was an Englishman who was in the spice
trade with a partner, for a long time, who happened to be the guy who wrote by
the name of T. Lopsang Rampa. They were going to start a school together.
Hill wrote a book expounding their philosophy before they actually started
the school together, so Rampa said, “Well, hell, if that is what you want to
do, I will write a whole bunch of books, too since we, obviously, are not
going to be able to start a school together now.” T. Lopsang Rampa was a really feisty Irishman, who
lives in At any rate, there are a
lot of things which are very popular which are supposed to be taken with a
grain of salt, but Americans will fall
for the funniest things. He wrote some things about the “Cave of the
Ancients.” I don’t know if you have ever heard of that book. The true parts
of it have to do with the powers the Tibetan Masters have—people on the right
side. Those things are so “far out” that Americans just could not buy it at
all. And those were the true parts. The other parts were about a cave that
had all the different inventions—all the wisdom of the ages from past
civilizations gathered into it—and that was based on a gathering of
information by the Brotherhoods. But there is no such cave and no such
collection of things in the way that he speaks of; not on the physical plane.
And, that part Americans bought without any difficulty. One of the problems with
metaphysical writings has to do with just a lot of mythology, some of which
might have some basis in Truth and a great deal of which is just plain
garbage. To discern what is right and what is wrong takes a lifetime of
studying and trying to get to the root of all these things. Meanwhile, his
publishers really are happy with the appeal that his works have with the
people and so they enjoy wide circulation. (03-1982) T. Lopsang
Rampa RK: Which book did you read of Rampa’s? Q: The one that was authored by him. RK: Well, he has about eight or nine of them out. Q: I am not aware of that, then. RK: He has written about seven of them and his cat has one, at
least, that his cat wrote. I really do not know what to answer you. I mean,
he writes very popularly in a form which people find very interesting to deal
with, and he talks about a lot of metaphysical information which can be
verified in many different areas; those things are real. There are a lot of
things which he deals with which are myths that have been handed down for a
long time in our traditions which were, not necessarily, anything to do with
actual fact. But, you can verify the myths, too, because they have been
around for a couple of thousand years, particularly the Hinduistic concepts. (09-1982) |
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