By: Roberto Bardini. Thursday March 20, 2008
(BAMBU PRESS,
Jorge Luis Borges attributed to Rudyard Kipling one sentence: "If you have heard the call of the East, no longer you will hear something else."
The French thinker Rene Guenon, Mason converted to Islam, he awarded another: "East is East and West is West, and never be found." Tibet successive dalai lamas, Buddhism and some millenarian teachings, regardless of their actual importance philosophical and religious, have always been conducive to territory talented charlatans, specialists bamboozle a weak wills obsessed with transcendental meditation, reincarnation and the "teachings hermetic of superiors unknown. " One of the most famous was the impostoras "seer" Helena Blavatsky, born in Ukraine and daughter of a German colonel. After working in a circus as an assistant from a medium, created in 1875 in the United States the Theosophical Society, inspired by an alleged trip learning Tibet. In 1884 the expelled from India to discover that relied on his skills as a magician to produce "realizations" from scratch. After an investigation that lasted one year, the Society for Research Psíquica, London, he described it as "one of the largest impostoras history." Madame Blavatsky, who viewed Aboriginal Australians as belonging to an "inferior race" and the Semites as "spiritually degenerate," was subsequently many followers among Nazism. His books Isis without Veil (1875) and Secret Doctrine (1888) will continue selling until today. Another of the "great masters" was the hypnotist, dealer oriental carpets and former tsarist spy George Ivanovitch Gurdjieff, a sexópata born in Armenia Russian and promoter of the "fourth way", who assured his disciples in Tibet had begun "medicine, dances and rituals psychic techniques." According to the British writer and university lecturer Romuald Landau, a specialist in comparative religions, this character was a Russian secret agent in the service of the thirteenth Dalai Lama, Thupten Gyatso, a despotic ruler who fled to China in 1904 and in 1910 took refuge in India. In 1956 was published in Britain a success editorial, The Third Eye, Lobsang Rampa, who was presented as a member of an ancient lineage of Tibetan monks and connoisseur from the age of seven secrets related to spirituality. In 1958, The Daily Mail, London, revealed that the mysterious author was called into reality Cyril Henry Hoskin. He was the son of a plumber Devonshire, southwest of the United Kingdom, and had never left the country. The fraudster fled to Canada, where he obtained citizenship and was presented as Doctor Ramp until his death in 1981, then posted other 20 titles. To date, The Third Eye leads sold millions of copies in almost every language. Those who passed the information to the Daily Mail was the geographer, skier, Austrian mountaineer and explorer Heinrich Harrer, author of the 1953 book Seven Years in Tibet, translated into 48 languages and carried a movie in 1997, with the performance of Brad Pitt. Harrer, who also wrote My Life in the Court of the Dalai Lama, who sold 50 million copies, was tutor and friend to Tendzin Gyatso, the current spiritual leader of Tibetans, who was then 11 years old. What the film does not show is that when Chinese troops invaded Tibet in 1949, Harrer was in the first line of defence until they had to flee. Shortly after the premiere of Seven Years in Tibet, which was filmed in the Andes Mountains in Argentina, the German weekly magazine Stern revealed that Harrer belonged to the Schutzstaffel (SS), National squads protection since 1933, when he was 21 years old. With file information secret military intelligence from the United States, the magazine reported that the mountaineer was welcomed at the court of the fourteenth Dalai Lama thanks to the excellent relations that had existed since the decade of the'30s between Tibetan monks and a few dignitaries Nazi followers of Madame Blavatsky and interested in Orientalism. From then until his death in 2006, the explorer disappeared from public life. Four years earlier, when he was 90 years old, had received the visit of the Dalai Lama. "Heinrich Harrer was my personal friend," wrote the monk. "I learned a lot from him, particularly about Europe. We feel that we have lost a loyal friend of the West
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