Helena Roerich claimed to receive telepathic messages from a spiritual master named Morya, which guided her and her famous painter husband on a massive, grueling expedition through the Himalayas in the 1920s.

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Helena Roerich claimed to receive telepathic messages from a spiritual master named Morya, which guided her and her famous painter husband on a massive, grueling expedition through the Himalayas in the 1920s. They spent five years trekking across treacherous mountain passes in India, Tibet, and Mongolia, nominally searching for rare plants and art, but secretly trying to establish a utopian spiritual kingdom called Shambhala. Despite facing freezing temperatures, hostile bandits, and extreme high-altitude sickness, she continued to diligently write down her channeled cosmic wisdom in her diaries. Most people struggle to keep a travel journal on a luxury cruise, but she managed to transcribe entire volumes of esoteric philosophy while dodging bullets and frostbite