Of the same root: heaven, earth & I; the case for a holist, mystic pantheism & its single ethic-- reverence for life. With 34 Lucretian prose poems to elucidate the text by John E. Whitford Boyle
Washington D. C: Wheat Forders, 1990. Paperback. xi, 236p., first edition 5.5 x 8.5 inch buff wraps printed in red and black; somewhat edgeworn, cover slightly soiled and creased. Accompanying the book are partial write-ups of a cataloguer's assessment of the significance of Boyle' presence with Prabhavananda, and letters from this cataloguer in facsimile to Boyle's secretary declaring the CIA aspect of the book to be of interest; replies also supplied in facsimile. Boyle forbade provision of further copies to the inquirer, and his secretary, on the telephone, sounding quite elderly, announced that the inquirer (myself) was the strangest customer they had ever had. Primers for the age of inner space.
Boyle says he was CIA 1948 thru 1968 and checkable evidence suggests this to be true. He spent part of those years investigating or at least being debriefable on his acquaintance with Vedantists.
In the Fifties [starting 1951] he was a minor member of the Trabuco Group in Southern California: Prabhavananda, Huxley, Isherwood, Van Druten and Heard; Boyle seems to take partial credit for Huxley's metaphysical anthology (circa 1950) and says he helped Isherwood edit Vedanta For Modern Man. Of the Same Root, unfortunately, reads like a college textbook written by an ambitious young asistant professor. . On the cover he declares the sumnum bonum to be 'reverence for life' yet was and remained a supporter of the Shah of Iran, facilitating the removal of nationalist Mosadegh and who, afterwards, ruled most bloodily. In the full text of 'Same Root' he refers to CIA simply as "a responsible post with the US Government", but is forthright on the back cover. He adds that "In the forties he spent time in India at the Gandhi ashram." He makes no mention of the CIA's lack of a mandate to operate within the USA.
Cat.No: 76986
Price: $75.00