Tindall Practicing Rapproachment

Climbing slowly out of the weeds of my own obsessive concerns, thanks in part to an overdose of 80s pop.

As I mentioned a few posts back, A. F. Tindall of the London Occult Society was more than a bit ambivalent about Emma's role in institutionalizing Spiritualism in England, and not above consorting with the Theosophists when it suited his purposes.

But this piece -- reading to me like a letter to the editor, rather than the article as which it is structured -- which appeared in July of 1981 in The Two Worlds shows Tindall seeking rapproachment, and -- perhaps more interesting than that -- giving our Emma her due as the strange Spiritualist attractor of the midlands.

"If we are to go forth to the world, we must work with the world's weapons..." -- who was not smitten with tropes of war?

When you call my name/it's like a little prayer/I'm down on my knees/I want to take you there....

More medicine required.