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In this episode we sketch the life and impact of a woman who has been called the mother of modern spirituality and who was also one of the greatest explorers of the 1900s, though she\u2019s rarely credited for it. She was a much maligned philosopher, activist, founder of a world religion that she never wanted to be a religion, just a means of investigating the wisdom of the gods - theosophy. She was one of the first westerners to convert to Buddhism, the first Russian to gain American citizenship, and the first western woman to make it into the sacred fortified himalayan nation of Tibet where she lived and studied for years. Probably.\n\nShe was certainly fiercely independent, a chain smoking, not quite vegetarian, possibly transgender queer, celibate philosopher medium, spectacular synthesizer of eastern and western philosophy, yes I\u2019m talking about the deeply divisive and intentionally elusive Helena P Blavatsky, HPB to her friends.\nAbout Missing Witches\n\nAmy Torok and Risa Dickens produce the Missing Witches Podcast. We do\nevery aspect from research to recording, it is a DIY labour of love and\ncraft. Missing Witches is entirely member-supported, and getting to know\nthe members of our Coven has been the most fun, electrifying,\nunexpectedly radical part of the project.\xa0\n\n\xa0\n\nThese days the Missing Witches Coven gathers in our private, online\ncoven circle to offer each other collaborative courses in ritual,\nweaving, divination, and more; we organize writing groups and witchy\nbook clubs; and we gather on the Full and New Moon from all over the\nworld.\xa0\n\n\xa0\n\nOur coven includes solitary practitioners, community leaders, techno\npagans, crones, baby witches, neuroqueers, and folks who hug trees and\nhave just been looking for their people.\xa0\n\n\xa0\n\nOur coven is trans-inclusive, anti-racist, feminist, pro-science,\nanti-ableist, and full of love.\n\n\xa0\n\nIf that sounds like your people, come find out more. Please know that\nwe've been missing YOU.\xa0\n\n\xa0\n\nhttps://www.missingwitches.com/join-the-coven/