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Russian mystic Helena Roerich produced volumes of spiritual texts by claiming telepathic contact with a cosmic master

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Why write your own books when you can just claim an invisible entity is dictating them to you? Russian mystic Helena Roerich published the 'Agni Yoga' series by insisting she was in constant telepathic communication with Master Morya, a highly evolved cosmic being. It’s the ultimate defense against literary critics: 'I didn't write this terrible prose, the immortal space wizard did.'

Russian mystic Helena Roerich produced volumes of spiritual texts by claiming telepathic contact with a cosmic master
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