AE: The Forgotten MysticwithJames Tunney
…Also, there's this big question about: how does the mystic influence society? In this sense this is where the mystic can have more magic. It's because they plant seeds. They act. There's a word myutic which is used about AE Russell to refer to this Socratic way, they used to ask questions of things and in that gentle way be like a midwife to ideas, which is I think where the word came from. So he was a midwife in many senses, [what] I describe as Merlinesque in some senses, with his round table. He was the one, as we said, who gave Pamela Travers a start. He had a very close relationship with her and he would have inspired Mary Poppins in many senses.…
