Ita’s Comments (group member since Jun 18, 2012)

Ita’s comments from the Q&A with Tahir Shah group.

Sorry, Kevan. I did see a golden head, and even touched it, when Tahir brought it to a lecture he gave on Timbuctoo, in a very atmospheric old house in Wimbledon a few years ago. It was on a dark evening just before Christmas.
I'm afraid I don't have your perseverance, when it comes to looking for buried golden heads.

Something else that came out in 'Eye Spy' was Amadeus Caine's lust for revenge at the end of the book. Societies that were traditionally Christian are supposed to be above this, but the desire for revenge seems to run very deep in us. It is very noticable among people from the USA, but it's also strong in Northern Ireland.
Personally I find a sentence you put into the mouth of Richard Adams in 'Timbuctoo' very helpful. It was about leaving justice to God.

We're basking in beautiful, rare sunshine. Parts of Central Europe are suffering the worst flooding since the sixteenth century. 'Extreme weather events' are becoming common. The level of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is 0.04%, the highest it has been for millions of years. In most of your books you show concern for the balance between man and the rest of nature. In 'Eye Spy" you suggest the human race is balanced on a knife edge, yet the people we depend on to keep us informed are more interested in the resignation of football managers, and there is no evidence that those we depend on for leadership consider the future of humanity to be a high priority.
How much time is left for someone with the genius of Amadeus Caine to avert disaster?

Hello Tahir,

To the people in the Occident cannibalism is anathema, yet in Christian churches every day the words of Jesus are repeated: 'Take and eat. This is my body'. This was strange language, to say the least, in which to clothe his directions to his apostles. I wonder what you think?

Ita

You stated on Facebook that the twin themes of this book were Love and Endurance. This book is a treasure created through Love and Endurance.

While I was reading 'Timbuctoo' I assumed that a Royal African Committee and a Sir Geoffrey Caldecott existed at an historical level. I am no historian and I can't be absolutely certain, but it now looks highly unlikely to me that any sort of Sir Geoffrey, never mind one who who was also a prominent member of an Alta Templis, was living at this time. This doesn't make Sir Geoffrey any less real. He is very much alive, but at a different level.