... in the Cratylus, love or desire enters us as an “influx”— a cosmic gift—that, flowing into us from without opens ... our lives and all our relationships to become “a magnetic influence for good,” he turns to an unexpected source: My mind read more...
... at nearby Purdue University, and while recovering from the Spanish flu in 1918, he spent hours studying his father’s ... extended beyond his businesses, and the money, power, and influence that they brought were ultimately only a means to a read more...
... read it. (Laughter) And about that time, 1918, the first flu epidemic (Spanish Influenza) came through the country. At ... and he just couldn’t handle it. I came down with the influenza. My mother came down with it, and the several others in read more...
... at age 17 (in 1918) of being given up for dead due to the Spanish Flu; he survived the night and dedicated his life to the ... triggered by the loss of his ‘first love’ in the WWI- era Spanish Flu Epidemic, with John subsequently contacting her through read more...
... When he was a teenager. He was victim of the 1918 swine flu epidemic, which, uh, actually took my mother's, uh, father ... when she was a 2-year-old. So the swine flu, you know, came through—they now think it started in Kansas read more...
... and the Institute he founded were the products of many influences, several of which were esoteric in origin; but given ... his 1967 “This I Believe” essay • three memos on Masonic influences on John • two memos on John’s belief in reincarnation read more...