Theos-Talk Archives (December 2001 Message tt00268)

Olcott refers to "Astral flight, or psychic journey"as late as 
afther the Hodgson report. See;

http://blavatskyarchives.com/olcotthodgson.htm

http://sites.netscape.net/dhcblainfo/cole1893.htm

http://blavatskyarchives.com/hodgson2.htm

For a discussion for the use of drugs in the early TS in G.H.Felt's 
experiments, see Joscelyn Godwin, The Theosophical Enlightenment p. 
287, and Deveney, P.B.Randolph p. 533-34. See also p. 261 of 
Theosophical History Vol. VI, nr.7, July 1997 where Dr. J.Santucci 
mentions ; "Keeping in mind the activities of Blavatsky's and her 
followers in the Lamasry in the New York days, are we actually 
confronted with asociety that was more a "theourgia"and less 
a "theosophia" ?

Brigitte