SYMHC Classics: Madame Blavatsky

Stuff You Missed in History Class

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History, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 21 December 2024

⏱️ 50 minutes

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This 2020 episode covers the iconic figure of mysticism, Madame Blavatsky. She was the founder of the theosophical movement, and lived a life of adventure that's hard to believe.

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0:00.0	Happy Saturday.
0:03.8	In our episode on Joaquin Torres-Garcia this week,
0:07.0	we talked about Madame Blavatsky
0:08.9	and how she just seems to keep showing up
0:11.1	in our episodes in unexpected moments.
0:13.6	So today, our episode on her is our Saturday classic.
0:18.2	This originally came out on October 5th, 2020, so enjoy.
0:25.3	Welcome to Stuff You Missed in History Class, a production of IHeart Radio.
0:35.9	Hello and welcome to the podcast. I'm Holly Fry.
0:38.9	And I'm Tracy V. Wilson.
0:40.7	Tracy, it's the best month of the year.
0:42.8	I know it's your absolute favorite.
0:44.6	It is.
0:45.4	I mean, in my heart, it's October every day, but now we're actually in October.
0:49.8	Which means Halloween-y content.
0:53.6	And for this October, we're doing kind of an on-ramp topic.
0:58.3	Because it's a subject that I know you and I have both been kind of mentally prowling around for a bit.
1:05.1	It is Madame Blavatsky, who is said to have gone simply by her initials of HPB.
1:11.1	I have a hard time saying that, so I'm going to stick to her regular name.
1:15.2	Yeah.
1:16.2	Well, it's also like the name she was known by in all of her work around the English-speaking world.
1:23.4	We're not going to try to, like, recreate her Russian name in Russian because that's like not how she was known here.
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