Think Draw - Picture - Friendly Ghost

Title: Friendly Ghost
created on 03 Mar 14

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1. chelydra wrote: This one is a genuine murder mystery, or to be more precise, whether she might have been murdered, or her murder covered up by police in league with a coven of evil witches.
2. chelydra wrote: Marcia Moore, a beautiful, kind, and eccentric yoga teacher, in whose company I spent most Saturday afternoons when I was fourteen. I later read that she had a habit of collecting misfits at her ashram, which solved the mystery of why she was so nice and
3. chelydra wrote: ...so patient with me. Her then-husband, Louis Acker, introduced me to astrology and the art of making clouds vanish with psychic energy.
4. chelydra wrote: Her skull was found in a tree, and her brother Robin (of "Green Berets" fame) has been crusading for an investigation. The official story is that she was so high on horse tranquilizers that she got lost in the woods and froze.
5. chelydra wrote: I last saw her in 1968 when she gave a talk in which she advised B.U. students that we should be more in touch with our big toe than with what's happening on the other side of the world. I was devastated to realize her spirituality didn't seem to extend t
6. chelydra wrote: ...to napalmed kids, and made no further effort to contact her until it was too late. (We'd corresponded a while previously but it ended in some kind of mysterious (to me) misunderstanding â€” a long letter complaining about what's wrong with people
7. chelydra wrote: ...(in which she apparently included me). But I'm eternally grateful for her friendship, taking me into her home for long talks and delightful adventures with her gurus and followers.
8. chelydra wrote: About a year after I moved away from Concord, Massachusetts, a writer named Jess Sterne wrote a book about her called Yoga, Youth and Reincarnation. She and Louis also later published some books; his are among the best in his field.
9. DilCoura wrote: Excelente!!!!
10. Normal wrote: Oh my! I read Sterne's book many years ago. Will have another look, bearing in mind your connections. Lovely ghost. (How do skulls get into trees, for Pete's sake?)
11. chelydra wrote: (Witches put them there, allegedly. Or it might be an embellishment to the conspiracy theory, if Robin Moore's ideas about his sister's departure are no more reliable than his view of the Indochina war.
12. chelydra wrote: ...which just deepens the mystery.)
13. chelydra wrote: My portrait doesn't catch her quirkiness and humor, nor her "sense of wonder" (Rachel Carson's term for the childlike quality she regarded as the source of all good work in science, etc.)
14. chelydra wrote: But maybe ghosts are beyond all that, since their wonderings have presumably been answered.
15. clorophilla wrote: a beautiful portrait and an eerie story
16. Login wrote: No, she's real ... far too bright eyed to be a ghost. Why do you presume ghost's wonderings have been answered ... mine haven't.