The Great Game, the Vril-ya and Theosophy

[Helen Reyes]

Linguistically they trace back to present day north west India/Pakistan possibly from the Jat people as the two groups share a hereditary disease related to glaucoma.

Latcho Drom - the story of Gypsy migration as filmed by a Gypsy told in music and dance:

Wow! Great information! I'll have to watch those videos later, not enough space on the hard disk right now.

Stumbled across http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annie_Besant , she was a sort of feminist/suffragette a la Emma Goldman (Marxist not anarchist though, with ties to Fabian Society) who met Blavatsky, travelled to India and eventually became president of Theosophy there, but caused a schism with the American chapter by disclosing that the "Mahatma Letters" the Americans had been sending were counterfeits. She used her authority to protect Leadbetter from child rape charges in India, and later she sconspired with him to kidnap Krishnamurti and his brothers, nominally because Leadbetter thought Krishnamurti had a very pure aura and was the Maitreya, actually probably so Leadbetter could molest the boys. The British authorities in India found against the boys' father when he sued for custody and they were raised in the Theosophy compound in Adyar, India.

Arrested for campaigning for Indian independence, freed after protests by the Muslim league and others, differed with Gandhi over socialism (?).