Re: Paul Twitchell HIStory WIKI, ARCHIVE & GOOGLE GROUP
Kinpa
> For anyone interested in the Life of Paul Twitchell and the early
> History of Eckankar, you may find the Paul Twitchell HIStory [PTHS]
> Wiki Project of some benefit.
>
> Some may even like to contribute additional information or historical
> files yourself.
>
> The PTHS Wiki Timeline and Archive Project is a private and
> independent historical research project about the life of Sri Paul
> Twitchell (1909 - 1971).
>
> It is a basically *biographical study* of Sri Paul Twitchell
> (1909-1971) the Mahanta, the living ECK Master (1965-1971) and Founder
> of ECKANKAR: Religion of the Light and Sound of God - aka the Ancient
> Science of Soul Travel
>
> The PTHS Wiki's primary focus is *compiling* credible historical and
> biographical material on the life of Paul Twitchell.
>
> This includes:-
> - collating all of the existing research efforts to date
> - locating new previously unknown verifiable source documents and
> personal accounts/reports
> - creating an accurate *evidence based* Biographical Timeline for
> Paulji
> - And of most importance a publicly open and accessible PTHS File
> Archive of historical documents and publications.
>
> One that is freely accessible to anyone with an interest in learning
> more about Paul.
>
> Discussions on the PTHS Wiki Google Group focus is on updating and
> improving the PTHS Wiki website.
> It is NOT provided as yet another online venue to argue about Paul or
> the validity Eckankar itself.
>
> The PTHS Wiki Project is very much WORK IN PROGRESS, and therefore
> should NOT be seen as something that is complete, nor comprehensive at
> this time.
>
> It may grow, or it may die on the vine. The motivation and goal is
> simple - "Build it and they will come."
>
> The handful of sincere people, who have already invested much time and
> efforts to get the PTHS Wiki project this far, cannot complete this
> project alone. There is far too much complex work and research
> involved to get even close to producing something of true value to
> others.
>
> The space has been created, the basic structure has been designed and
> built, and the guiding philosophy of purpose and methodology has been
> pondered upon and is articulated on the Wiki website.
>
> There 3 key URL LINKS to access ALL currently available information:
>
> PTHS Wiki Websitehttp://sites.google.com/site/pthswiki/
>
> PTHS Wiki Historical File Archivehttps://docs.google.com/leaf?id=0B0KObtCQpPKbODYzYWI4MTYtMzA1NC00NDYz...
>
> PTHS Wiki Discussion Boardhttp://groups.google.com/group/pthswiki
>
> Thank you,
> Sean
excellent~! thanks for posting...
Etznab
About a year, or two, ago I started compiling trivia about the
"New Age" religious movement and adding it to my timeline
for Eckankar trivia. Recently I began transferring a lot of that
information over to my world history timeline.
What I've found is that it wasn't one person, but it was more
on the order of a "movement", with countless individuals who
contributed something.
For example. take a look at the later 1800s & early 1900's.
There was a 500-year Neptune-Pluto conjunction around
1891 - and then a return of Halley's Comet around 1909. It
was the beginning of the industrial revolution and a number
of scientific breakthroughs, coupled with archaeological did-
coveries shedding light on Biblical texts and World History.
http://www.mirrorh.com/timelinead19.html
I've only completed moving the "spiritual teachings" trivia
up to about the year 1940. It's spotty at present, though
I hope to fill in more detail in time (this stuff takes a lot of
work and time to do.).
In any case, I prefer looking at the "New Age" trivia when
it's in context to world events.
Did everybody know that Radha Soami Satsang Beas
was founded in 1891? The same year as the Neptune-
Pluto conjunction? And a lot of the people who contrib-
uted to a "spiritual movement" in the 20th Century were
born around this time?
I find that interesting.
When reading about noted individuals who pioneered the
"new age" movement, when I looked at their teachings &
dogmas, I found many of them were doing similar things.
This is why I got the impression of a "movement". And if
I didn't know better, I might venture to say a lot of things
look as if "orchestrated" by a common entity or group of
people in league with one another building something for
a particular purpose.
Another thing I like about looking at this type of trivia in
context to world events is it helps give an idea about the
kind of world these people were born into and living in. It
helps to show what political forces, etc., were active at
the time and what other people / groups were doing.
One can look at the life of Paul Twitchell for a particular
age. When he was a young boy, when he went to high
school and college, ect., and get a feel for events that
were happening in the world around that time. I found it
helped me to better relate to what little information I
knew about Paul (and others) beforehand.
Looking at the time when Paul Twitchell probably went
to high school and college - around the early 1930's -
consider the context. Like the Stock Market Crash in
1929 and the Nazi Party coming into power in 1933.
It gives a lot more context, if you ask me. Julian J. in
1933 was going to India. It was a time when rocket
technology (perhaps we are consuming some of that
rocket fuel, perchlorate, in our food and water today?)
was advancing & Col. James Churchward was writing
about Mu.
On the timeline I try to give a sample of books and
other things that came out for different years. Take a
look at this from 1936:
1936 - The Flaming Door: Mission of the Celtic Fold Soul -
The Flaming Door: Mission of the Celtic Fold Soul, by
Eleanor C. Merry, 1936. Quotes:
"And that which came to meet the soul (as light and
sound come to meet our outer eyes and ears) was
called HU, the spiritual world." (p. 137)
"The God HU was the all-ruling Divinity of Western
Celtic mythology. He represented the power and the
glory of the spiritual world." (p. 153)
"The Mysteries of HU revealed the other pole of human
life: the ascent out of the body into the 'glorified' state
of expansion of the consciousness in the spiritual world."
(p. 153)
"And HU could bring music to the consciousness of
waking man and teach it to him, because he himself
could hear in sleep the harmonies of the spheres, and
his passage from waking to sleeping to waking was
unbroken by any obliteration of consciousness. This
was always the summit of initiation experience."
(p. 165)
http://www.sourcetext.com/hupage/Secular/secular.html
When Paul Twitchell was about one year old ...
"Inayat Khan (1882-1927) brought Sufism from India
to the West in 1910, and taught in Europe and the
United States until 1926."
[Based on: Postscript for Parabola article (The Soul's
Journey, Inayat Khan), Vol. XXI, No. 2 (The Soul),
1996, p. 59]
And when Paul Twitchell was just a school boy ...
(in 1923) ...
The Supreme Being has been called by various
names in different languages, but the mystics have
known him as HU. . . the only name of the Nameless.
.. . The word Hu is the spirit of all sounds and of all
words, and is hidden within them all, as the spirit in
the body. It does not belong to any language, but no
language can help belonging to it. This alone is the
true name of God, a name that no people and no
religion can claim as their own.
[Based on: The Mysticism of Sound, by Hazrat
Inayat Khan, pages 64-65 (original copyright date
1923)]
When Paul Twitchell got married to his first wife in
the early 1940s, World War II had started & Julian
Johnson published Path of the Masters just a few
years before, in 1939.
I hope I have the time to continue adding more and
more trivia and finish up the rest of the years. But
for now I'm pretty much captivated looking at what
so far I've gathered for 1800-1940. It's just way so
much information and I find it takes a lot of time to
assimilate.
This is the page I use to review a particular time
period, or what I've managed to compile so far. It's
not the best, but is somewhat unique in the "type"
of trivia compiled there.
http://www.mirrorh.com/adcalendar.html
Umm ... lots of people have contributed to history
research and I'm glad that each person has some-
thing different, or unique to offer. It makes for a
broader array of information and perspective that
helps to supplement the literal records and docu-
ments.
So I like this subject. Thanks PTHS Wiki for all of
the time and work on your end. !
Etznab
P.S. I'm glad we're all (still) here!
Rich
> In any case, I prefer looking at the "New Age" trivia when
> it's in context to world events.
World events http://newstimeline.googlelabs.com/
Etznab
Good link!
Etznab