Attracted to the ancient power and integral wisdom of life in the Indian tradition, Lewis Thompson left England at the age of twenty-three for India "to examine and prove its massive, subtle but powerful and inescapable atmosphere". "The whole in this atmosphere," he wrote, "suggests a superhuman discipline and dignity, a passion, a sensuality, for what is prior to Being and Non-being-astringent like the taste of iron."
Volume One of Thompson's journals takes us into the wildly extreme and vibrating everyday world of the Indian sub-continent of the 1930's and 40's, through the poetic prism of a great spiritual aspirant and intellect bent on realising the Presence of the Transcendent (Sahaja).
Lewis Thompson Journals Of An Inegral Poet Volume 1 1932 to 1944 GD
