wondering if anyone has read anything by lobsang rampa?and if so your reactoin to it? mostly in regards to the cave of the ancients (or the ancient truths he mentioned of previous civilizations), astral travel, clairvoyance, telepathy..or any other bizarre or 'supernatural' elements?
LR was an Englishman who merely read Theosophical tracts of Blavatsky and turned them into stories. LR was not a Tibetan nor a Buddhist nor a Lama.
Yes, TLR was exposed as being an ordinary man, but his legacy is that he opened the minds of westerners to transcendentalism well before the Beatles discovered and revealed Maharishi Mahesh Yogi. T Lobsang Rampa was the reason why I began my search for the meaning of life, reality, and mind, and his books are well worth reading for any novice on the path to enlightenment. I still have two old and tattered paperbacks ~ The Wisdom of the Ancients and The Third eye on my bookshelf, and I re-read both earlier this year.
a friend of mine once met him. He originated from Tunbridge Wells if memory serves. I read 3rd eye about 30 years ago - wierd stuff, esp. the little chip he claims they put in there. Reminds me of MK Ultra....
Having just re-read 3rd eye, the procedure was supposed to be a slither of bamboo was inserted into the frontal lobe of the brain and left there for 3 days, during which time it turned black, and his 3rd eye was opened from then on. No mention of any chip.
ok, when i was 19, in 1975 i had a major out-of-body-experience...saw the white light...it came into my soul brain...more powerful than i can explain here now..had to find out what happened to me, went to a used bookstore, found a copy of "you forever" by LR and found my answers. He was writing about astral travel, the white light, silver cord, etc, long before any of the other life-after-death books started coming out. His insight was accurate and timeless. My sister also had a copy of "the third eye". I remember seeing it on the family bookshelves 45 years ago! And i too still have my worn and tattered copies of You Forever and Wisdom of the Ancients. They were the backbone of my spiritual path. I don't care where he was from, he knows metaphysical reality.
No, a slither is a long, thin stick. And in the Rampa context, it was withdrawn (ie removed) after 3 days. Fantasy story? yes. Factually based? In many instances, yes. I can't see the problem with someone writing a book that assists opening the closed western mind with all of it's prejudices against eastern esotoric religion and teaching. At the least it has broadened our scope of understanding in the same vein as did any of H.G. Wells' works.
There is not one lie in any of his works. The "lie" came from the popular tabloid press that is always looking for mud to sling to sell their trash. When they found out that one T Lobsang Rampa was a nom-de-plume rather than a real person, they did what tabloid press is famous for ~ scandal and discredit. Those who don't read his books are the less for it in the same way that those who hold prejudicial perceptions of reality are. But don't expect to find any deep truths from mainstram orthodoxy ~ they perpetuate the lie. And neither expect orhodoxy to embrace truths exposed by the likes of Rampa or David Icke,because the truth will set you free, and ortyhodox establishment doesn't want that. Slaves are far more easliy and profitably milked when they remain unaware (unenlightened). Stay that way if you wish.
so he really was born into a high class family in tibet and was sent off to study at 7 under dondup and he really was favored by the dali llama, and he really was a really high incarnation declaired and abbot at age 12 i believe? and he really did see the giants that roamed the earth thousands of years ago and he really did see a cave full of technology far greater then what we have today that came from lost civilizations?
exactly..when you do a search for rampa..half the sites I've found say he is 'British man named Cyril Hoskins (born in Plympton, Devon, England, died 1981)'
Maybe you should google 'nom de plume". Either way, are you saying that the Rampa Tibetan stories in no way reflect Tibetan tradition, lore, or psychic abilities, based upon a mere claim to authorship via nom de plume?
I'm saying the man is not what he claims. A pen name is used to protect true identity, not to fool, or try to fool the public. I doubt very much that Rampa's books do reflect accurately the Tibetan tradition. The whole thing is a dishonest presentation - a con. Rampa is a con man, and his readers are the marks.
I'm cool if a person makes up a different name to write under, thats common...but when the person makes up a background story for that pen name and calls it biographical...to me thats just a straight up lie example:1: my name is cletus stevens, I grew up in alabama bootlegging whiskey with me pappie 2: My name is josh decker I grew up in south dakota where I was on the track team. number 2 is fact, it really happened...number 1 is made up pen name and history, can they both be true? if not then one has to be a lie and if I claim that that lie is truth that makes me a liar
