“blindly copying the West”: Ibid., p. 89.
Bhante’s ideas about healing: Barbara Stewart, “Bellong Mahathera Is Dead; Cambodian Monk was 110,” New York Times, July 18, 1999; Michael York, Historical Dictionary of New Age Movements (Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 2004), p. 60.
While in the city: Program for The Great Wall, presented by the China Welfare Fund Committee, and in the author’s possession.
“[T]hose who have seen”: Quoted in the program for Aaron Avshalomov: New Expression to Chinese Music and Theater, in author’s possession.
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“no woman shall”: “Palatial Home Is Finished,” Los Angeles Times, November 15, 1914.
She had six thousand dollars: Report by Roger S. C. Wolcott, FBI File 65-4944, obtained through FOIA request.
“The only thing left to do”: Devi, Una mujer de tres siglos, p. 133.
“I try to live in the eternal now”: Interview with David Lifar.
“Aldous Huxley”: David King Dunway, Huxley in Hollywood (New York: Anchor Books, 1991), p. 14.
“when they are not”: William Tindall, “The Trouble with Aldous Huxley,” The American Scholar 11, no. 4 (Autumn 1942).
“The ideal man”: Strakaty, Yoga: The Technique of Health and Happiness, p. 60.
All that she recorded: Devi, Forever Young, Forever Healthy, pp. 52–53.
“How can you expect”: Aldous Huxley, Eyeless in Gaza (New York: Harper Perennial, 1995), pp. 422–24.
“a mind reader”: Robert Love, The Great Oom: The Improbable Birth of Yoga in America (New York: Viking, 2010), p. 12.
“advanced physical culture”: Ibid., p. 13.
Bernard first used his skills: Ibid., p. 20.
“a band of dashing gypsy”: Ibid., p. 30.
“ ‘Hindoo Priest’ Lures Girls”: Chicago Daily Tribune, May 4, 1910.
“Wild Orgies”: “Wild Orgies in the Temple of ‘Om,’ ” San Francisco Chronicle, May 5, 1910.
“Coroner Holds ‘Hindu Yogi’ ”: New York Tribune, June 19, 1910.
“the Hindu with the”: “Massaging Too Much for Her: Woman Causes Hindu Hypnotist’s Downfall,” Los Angeles Times, May 14, 1910.
“A Hindu Apple”: “A Hindu Apple for the Modern Eve,” Los Angeles Times, October 22, 1911.
Unlike most other tabloid: Love, The Great Oom, p. 113.
“Lawyers and teachers”: Ibid., p. 114.
In 1920 he set up: Catherine Albanese, “Sacred (and Secular) Self-Fashioning: Esalen and the American Transformation of Yoga,” in Jeffrey John Kripal and Glenn W. Shuck, eds., On the Edge of the Future: Esalen and the Transformation of American Culture (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2005), p. 65.
“Mahatma”: Edith Wharton, Twilight Sleep (New York: Scribner, 1997), p. 23.
Indeed, when Devi gave: Devi, Forever Young, Forever Healthy, p. 23.
It’s not clear if: Avshalomov and Avshalomov, Avshalomov’s Winding Way, p. 275.
He was not, however: Ibid., p. 291.
for which she received $4,500: Report by Roger S. Wolcott, Los Angeles, July 3, 1950, FBI File 65-4944, obtained through FOIA request.
“[P]robably when I am”: Avshalomov and Avshalomov, Avshalomov’s Winding Way, p. 277.
“I felt that underlying”: Ibid., p. 295.
“No matter what I do”: Ibid., p. 296.
“Before this war”: Report from Shanghai, China, April 20, 1948, National Archives.
“philosophical concepts of yoga”: Report by Mr. D. L. Nicholson to J. Edgar Hoover, October 19, 1950, obtained through FOIA request.
Colonel M. B. DePass: Report by Woodrow P. Lipscomb, September 15, 1950, FBI File 65-1671, obtained through FOIA request.
“sufficiently intelligent”: Report by Roger S. C. Wolcott, July 31, 1950, FBI File 65-4944, obtained through FOIA request.
“In view of the original allegations”: Memo from the FBI director to SAC, Los Angeles, March 16, 1950, FBI File 65-58839-8, obtained through FOIA request.
Being under investigation: Report by Roger S. C. Wolcott, July 31, 1950, FBI File 65-4944, obtained through FOIA request.
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“sumptuous starvation”: “Billions of Dollars for Prettiness: Big Industry Thrives on Woman’s Struggle to Stay Young,” Life, December 24, 1956.
After a stint in Arizona: Report by Roger S. C. Wolcott, July 31, 1950, FBI file 65-4944, obtained through FOIA request.
“The two women would”: Kohle Yohannan, Valentina: American Couture and the Cult of Celebrity (New York: Rizzoli, 2009), p. 160.
“standing on her head”: Christopher Challis, Are They Really So Awful? A Cameraman’s Chronicles (London: Janus Publishing Co., 1995), p. 89.
“During one yoga lesson”: Marion Mill Preminger, All I Want Is Everything (New York: Funk and Wagnalls Co., 1957), p. 178.
“had taken on”: Robert Balzer, Beyond Conflict (Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill Co., 1963), p. 170.
The film made use: Sam Kashner and Jennifer MacNair, The Bad and the Beautiful: Hollywood in the Fifties (New York: W. W. Norton, 2002), p. 337.
“that were awful imitations”: Gloria Swanson, Swanson on Swanson (New York: Pocket Books, 1980), p. 506.
In 1976: Kashner and MacNair, The Bad and the Beautiful, p. 347.
how to sleep better: Devi, Forever Young, Forever Healthy,” p. 25.
“I shall not”: Ibid., p. 31.
“about someone’s ‘uncle’ ”: Ibid., p. 64.
“Your hips perhaps?”: Ibid., p. 118.
By today’s standards: Ibid., p. 119.
“by the route of male achievement”: Marynia Farnham and Ferdinand Lundberg book quoted in Betty Friedan, The Feminine Mystique (New York: W. W. Norton, 2001), pp. 119–20.
“It is a well known fact”: Devi, Forever Young, Forever Healthy, p. 107.
“very important”: Ibid., p. 111.
“more beautifully”: Ibid., p. 116.
At the last minute: Letter from Gloria Swanson to Indra Devi, June 6, 1953, Gloria Swanson Papers, Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, University of Texas at Austin.
“Gloria Swanson’s latest”: Walter Winchell, “Of New York,” Washington Post, November 25, 1953.
“Among the ‘sideline’ ”: Aline Mosby, “Hollywood Yoga Teacher Puts Stars through Paces,” Spokane Chronicle, January 2, 1954.
“What are you doing?”: Jack Zaiman, “The Needle’s Eye: They Call Me Yoga,” Hartford Courant, October 27, 1953.
Swanson cabled Devi: Telegraph from Swanson to Devi, February 15, 1954, Gloria Swanson Papers, Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, University of Texas at Austin.
At the end of a four-page letter to Swanson: Letter from Indra Devi to Gloria Swanson, August 14 (year not given), Gloria Swanson Papers, Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, University of Texas at Austin.
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In her autobiography: Devi, Una mujer de tres siglos, p. 136; Letter from Sigfrid Knauer to the House of Representatives, April 4, 1956, United States Congressional Serial Set, House Reports, vol. 6 (Washington, DC: Library of Congress, 1957).
“Man is what he is”: Rudolf Steiner and Ida Wegman, Extending Practical Medicine: Fundamental Principles Based on the Science of the Spirit (London: Rudolf Steiner Press, 2000), pp. 11–12.
So, for example: “Anthroposophic Medicines: Their Origin, Production and Application,” pamphlet published by the Medical Section of the School of Spiritual Science, Dornach, Switzerland.
“Illness is a part”: Sigfrid Knauer, “The Wisdom in Human Illness,” article date unknown; obtained from the files of the Rudolf Steiner Library, Ghent, NY.
“He would have a shelf”: Interview with John Brousseau.
“He was a very sharp wit”: Ibid.
In her memoir: Devi, Una mujer de tres siglos, p. 136; Letter from Sigfrid Knauer to the House of Representatives, April 4, 1956.
“one of history’s”: Jeff Burbank, Las Vegas Babylon: True Tales of Gli
tter, Glamour, and Greed (London: Robson Books, 2006), p. 100.
As a wedding gift: William Manchester, The Arms of Krupp: 1587–1968 (New York: Bantam Books, 1981), p. 783.
Devi insisted: Roberto Díaz Herrera, Mataji Indra Devi: La dama del yoga en Occidente (Panama City, Panama: Editorial Portobelo, Colección Pequeño Formato, Superación Personal, 1994).
Avshalomov was blindsided: Avshalomov and Avshalomov, Avshalomov’s Winding Way, p. 334.
“I begged him to leave her”: Ibid.
“Knauer, together”: Robert Craft, Stravinsky: Chronicle of a Friendship (Nashville: Vanderbilt University Press, 1994), p. 189.
“homeopathic prescriptions”: Vera Stravinsky and Robert Craft, Stravinsky in Pictures and Documents (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1978), p. 299.
“When you got an injection”: Interview with Brenda Barnetson.
“His other patients”: Henry Barnes, Into the Heart’s Land (Great Barrington, MA: SteinerBooks, 2005), p. 274.
It quickly came to replace: Anne Harrington, The Cure Within: A History of Mind-Body Medicine (New York: W. W. Norton, 2009), pp. 143–51.
Men, toiling in increasingly: Ibid., p. 159.
“The other-directed”: David Riesman with Nathan Glazer and Reuel Denney, The Lonely Crowd (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2001), p. 25.
By 1957: Andrea Tone, The Age of Anxiety: A History of America’s Turbulent Affair with Tranquilizers (New York: Basic Books, 2009), p. xvi.
“Attention physicians”: Ibid., p. 56.
“Before a new student”: Devi, Yoga for Americans (New York: Signet, 1968), p. 109.
“a propensity for weight gain”: William J. Broad, The Science of Yoga (New York: Simon and Schuster, 2012), pp. 96–97.
Even the most vigorous: Ibid., pp. 61–73.
“those involving”: Ibid., p. 73.
Then, in Bombay: Humphrey Burton, Yehudi Menuhin (Boston: Northeastern University Press, 2000), pp. 327, 331.
“Freedom had come”: B. K. S. Iyengar, Astadala Yogamala, vol. 1 (New Delhi, India: Allied Publishers Private Ltd., 2007), p. 29.
“I felt that”: Ibid.
“In recent years there has”: Burton, Yehudi Menuhin, p. 336.
“makes his eyes”: “Yehudi’s Yoga,” Life, February 9, 1953, p. 94.
In 1954: Burton, Yehudi Menuhin, p. 346.
“A New Twist”: “A New Twist for Society,” Life, August 20, 1956, pp. 53–54.
“I saw Americans”: Kofia Busia, ed., Iyengar: The Yoga Master (Boston: Shambala Publications, 2007), p. 5.
“Many were”: Devi, Yoga for Americans, p. x.
“Yoga is of great value”: Ibid., p. xii.
“This welcome book”: Ibid., p. vii.
One reader of: Devi, Yoga for Americans, p. 192.
“The Yoga exercises”: Ibid., p. 193.
“Red Heads Turn”: “Red Heads Turn for Yankee Yogi,” UPI, Miami News, June 19, 1960.
“The prospect of being”: Indra Devi, Renew Your Life through Yoga (New York: Warner Paperback Library, 1972), p. 71.
“They weren’t interested”: Devi, Una mujer de tres siglos, p. 154.
“Numerous Western researchers”: Anita Gregory, “Crackdown on Parapsychology,” New Scientist, February 13, 1975.
Some of Romen’s subjects: Stanley Krippner, Human Possibilities: A First-Person Account of Mind Exploration—Including Psychic Healing, Kirlian Photography, and Suggestology—in the USSR and Eastern Europe (Garden City, NY: Anchor Press/Doubleday, 1980), pp. 244–47.
No, Devi assured him”: Apostolli, Indra Devi, p. 253; Devi, Una mujer de tres siglos, p. 157.
“Tolstoy is a spiritual giant!”: Devi, Una mujer de tres siglos, p. 157.
This seems to have: Ibid.
Foreign Minister Gromkyo: “Red Heads Turn for Yankee Yogi.”
“Yoga Exercise Fad”: Theodore Shabad, “Yoga Exercise Fad in Soviet Union Is Vigorously Attacked,” New York Times, January 26, 1973.
“was of the opinion”: FBI memo from SAC, Los Angeles, to the FBI director, June 18, 1962, obtained through FOIA request.
“Mrs. HOLLENBECK said”: Ibid.
“No further investigation”: FBI memo from SAC, Los Angeles, to the FBI director, August 31, 1962, obtained through FOIA request.
It seemed to Devi: Devi, Una mujer de tres siglos, pp. 143–44.
53“Soon, word got out” Rancho La Puerta website, accessed April 15, 2013.
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In her writings and interviews: Indra Devi, Sai Baba and Sai Yoga (Delhi, India: Macmillan Company of India, 1975), p. 8.
“[Y]oga break starts”: Kay Goldman, Dressing Modern Maternity: The Frankfurt Sisters of Dallas and the Page Boy Label, e-book (Lubbock: Texas Tech University Press, 2013), n.p.
“The elevators are motionless”: Eugenia Sheppard, “To Be in Fashion, Hang by Your Heels,” New York Herald Tribune, syndicated in the Corpus Christi Caller-Times, Sunday, November 3, 1963.
“Problem of Our Age”: Devi, Renew Your Life through Yoga, pp. 11–17.
When she realized: Narayana Kasturi, Sathyam-Shivam-Sundaram, Part II (Prashanti Nilayam, India: Sri Sathya Sai Baba Publication and Education Foundation, 1984), p. 257; Goldman, Dressing Modern Maternity, n.p.
“attempt to stir”: “Madame Indra Devi: Crusade for Light in Darkness Has Cloak and Dagger Start,” New Cosmic Star, March 1967.
“On May 12”: Letter from the Gloria Swanson Papers, Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, University of Texas at Austin.
Dallas artist Dmitri Vail: Glenna Whitley, “The Art of the Con,” D Magazine, April 1992.
On the recording: Indra Devi, Indra Devi Presents Concentration & Meditation, MACE Records, 1965.
“carrying the fire”: Devi, Una mujer de tres siglos, p. 158.
“taken all over”: Unknown newspaper clipping found in the Gloria Swanson Papers, Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, University of Texas at Austin.
“Was there, we wondered”: Howard Murphet, Sai Baba: Man of Miracles (York Beach, ME: Red Wheel/Weiser, 1971), p. 24.
“He seemed to lift”: Ibid., p. 32.
“He is the brightest star”: Devi, Sai Baba and Sai Yoga, p. 5.
She told Natalia Apostolli: Apostolli, Indra Devi, p. 268.
“Saigon swings”: Hugh A. Mulligan, “Vietnam: A Confused, Many-Sided War,” Associated Press, March 20, 1966.
“He seldom answered”: Murphet, Sai Baba, p. 54.
“This is too much!”: Ibid., p. 56.
He lived in a dilapidated: Smriti Srinivas, In the Presence of Sai Baba: Body, City, and Memory in a Global Religious Movement (Leiden, Netherlands: Koninklijke Brill, 2008), p. 35.
“My devotees are calling”: Murphet, Sai Baba, p. 60.
Sathya Sai Baba: Srinivas, In the Presence of Sai Baba, p. 55.
“We’d sit there and talk”: Arnold Schulman, Baba (New York: Pocket Books, 1973), p. 94.
“wish-fulfilling trees”: Murphet, Sai Baba, p. 71.
“At picnics he”: Ibid.
Beggars, some with maimed: Schulman, Baba, p. 34.
There was a small: Apostolli, Indra Devi, p. 272; Devi, Sai Baba and Sai Yoga, p. 11.
Each time it ran out: Devi, Sai Baba and Sai Yoga, p. 12.
Draped in a saffron-colored robe: Ibid.
As she walked toward: Ibid.
Sai Baba had an armchair: Ibid., p. 14; Apostolli, Indra Devi, pp. 273–74.
“both the central communion”: Bill Aitken, Sai Baba: A Life (New Delhi, India: Penguin Books India, 2004), p. 26.
“Away from Sai’s”: Ibid., p. 27.
she found herself growing despondent: Devi, Sai Baba and Sai Yoga, p. 17.
“cascade of brilliant light”: Ibid.
Then, when the man: Ibid., pp. 21–22.
“Practice Yoga, or the mastery of the mind”: Devi, Sai Baba and Sai Yoga, p. 23.
There seemed to be pearls: Ibid., pp. 24–25.
“Didn’t Christ feed”:
Ibid.
“He caressed them”: Kasturi, Sathyam-Shivam-Sundaram, Part II, pp. 234–35.
“The greed and selfishness”: Ibid., p. 237.
“fairy tale”: Devi, Sai Baba and Sai Yoga, p. 33.
“Be happy”: Ibid., p. 36.
CHAPTER 15
In the early 1970s: Samuel Sandweiss, Sai Baba: The Holy Man…and the Psychiatrist (San Diego: Birth Day Publishing, 1975), p. 52.
“a psychology of pure consciousness”: Jeffrey J. Kripal, Esalen: America and the Religion of No Religion (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2008), p. 157.
approached “yogic or ‘spiritual’ practices”: Sandweiss, Sai Baba, p. 23.
“I had the strange feeling”: Ibid.
“I had the impression”: Ibid., p. 25.
She told Sandweiss that Sai Baba had raised a man: Ibid.
“You see people like Swami Satchidananda”: Sara Davidson, “The Rush for Instant Salvation,” Harper’s Magazine, July 1971.
“I felt that observing Baba”: Sandweiss, Sai Baba, p. 27.
He regularly oversaw her classes: Devi, Sai Baba and Sai Yoga, p. 38.
“All the miracles”: Ibid.
In 1967: “Hinduism in New York: A Growing Religion,” New York Times, November 2, 1967.
“Chief Guru”: Barney Lefferts, “Chief Guru of the Western World,” New York Times, December 17, 1967.
“citizens of Ozzie and Harriet’s America”: Philip Goldberg, American Veda: How Indian Spirituality Changed the West (New York: Harmony Books, 2010), p. 156.
He was popular: Ibid.
“shit and desire”: Deborah Baker, A Blue Hand: The Beats in India (New York: Penguin Press, 2008), p. 154.
“It brings a state”: Quoted in James R. Sikes, “Swami’s Flock Chants in Park to Find Ecstasy,” New York Times, October 10, 1966.
“And a second center”: Goldberg, American Veda, pp. 178–79.
“are our best potential”: Quoted in Hayagriva dasa, The Hare Krishna Explosion (San Rafael, CA: Palace Press, 1985), p. 141.
“a loose network of holy men”: Jane Howard, “Samadhi and Plaid Stamps on the Swami Circuit,” Life, February 9, 1968.
He told Devi there were too many gurus in America: Devi, Sai Baba and Sai Yoga, p. 59.
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