Hookland 10/2/21 3:56:20

@PaoloSammut @SJFTremoribus @cultauthor @HumanityHoax I suspect Letts was bleeding a techno-Buddhist sense into Time Lord culture more generally and we certainly see manifestations of the popular tales of Tibetan Buddhism in his Doctor Who.

Hookland 10/2/21 3:52:56

@PaoloSammut @SJFTremoribus @cultauthor @HumanityHoax Even in the early 1970s, you have reports of how the mind/observation impacts at quantum levels in the NS and so I think that is also part of the ‰Û÷heady‰Ûª mix.

Hookland 10/2/21 3:49:41

@PaoloSammut @SJFTremoribus @cultauthor @HumanityHoax However, he had also read – or so I am lead to believe – quite a few Theosophical-influenced works. I think he is coming from a late-1960s milieu of not only his own keen spiritual interests, but bad hippy interpretations, Lobsang T. and reading the latest theories in the NS.

Hookland 10/2/21 3:47:07

@PaoloSammut @SJFTremoribus @cultauthor @HumanityHoax Yes and no. Barry Letts was profoundly interested in Buddhism and I think you can see the influence of his reading on the subject in several serials such as the spirit wrestling in The Three Doctors.

Hookland 10/2/21 3:38:15

@richardcobbett @Ghostwoods This is exactly why we must realise control of interpretation ends with the send button and either make our intent clear or accept our work will often be colonised by the parasitic psychic worm hive-mind thing.