The Influence of Alcohol

Theosophical Classics

By: Annie Besant

Narrated by: Sandra Brautigam

Annie Besant was a writer, lecturer, prominent theosophist, and women's rights activist of her time. She was a frequent contributor to various theosophical publications of her day.

More than 40 years prior to Bill Wilson creating the organization known as Alcoholics Anonymous, in 1892 noted spiritual author Annie Besant gave a lecture on the subject of alcoholism (published later that same year) and referred to drinking alcohol as "the alcoholic disease"! She, of course, approached the subject from a theosophical and thus spiritual standpoint. She briefly described her own history with alcohol as well as the physical and spiritual effects it has on the individual.

Public Domain (P)2015 Lamp of Trismegistus

Informative, surprising, concrete, couregeus

Women's rights activity, the occult, and cutting-edge-back-then science views as background to very real human existence as a whole - I did not expect that. Well, maybe a little - check out the author's biography.

I looked for an essay on the topic and I've got it: concrete, to the point, just wow. Do I (and you) agree on the message, and the foundations of it is another topic.

Please consider in defence of the author that in the day of steam machines psychologists invented the term "ego decompression" and where now we talk about "living in the simulation" due to progress in IT the author in around 1900 gravitated around modern-back-then science to explain psychological and religious topics.

Awful!!

Don’t buy this book. It is horrible.
I made it through one chapter. The narrator is just as bad as the content.