“So, for example, Mahatma Gandhi in his letters and diaries was very plain that Madame Blavatsky as a person, and Theosophy as a principle, had an enormous, formative effect on the Indian independence movement. India today is the largest democracy in the world.
“Gandhi traced his earliest influences back to Madame Blavatsky — and this gets lost within mainstream history because most mainstream historians are trained in a kind of conformist mindset, as we all are, to regard certain things as serious, certain things as nonsense — and it dawned on me that the esoteric and occult subculture was going to lose its own history unless it wrote its own history.