In April of 2009, I realized that both the Eye of Revelation and Lost Horizon had a strange and unexpected connection. Both mentioned British Army officers who were members of Her Majesty's Diplomatic Corps and were involved with a Tibetan monastery that taught life extension. Kelder called this p...
It was late ....
The eleven o’clock news was on but I was only half listening as I worked at my computer. A newscaster mentioned James Hilton’s classic novel, Lost Horizon, but I don’t know in what context. Then I caught something being said about a group of Tibetan lamas that had developed met...
As many of you know, I believe that Sir Wilfrid was the "Colonel Bradford" mentioned in the Eye of Revelation as the person who brought the Five Rites to the West.
Learning more about the origins of the Five Tibetan Rites may be critical to learning more about the Five Rites themselves. If we knew more about the history of the Rites, we may then be able to learn even more about Tibetan health traditions and apply them to our lives with beneficial results.
In Part 1 we learned that the Five Tibetan Rites almost certainly have come down to us through a system of Kum Nye dating back 2,500 years. We learned that this tradition was probably preserved in a Bon monastery hidden in the high Himalayas. 1 The clues we followed were scant and were unusually r...