C.W. Leadbeater looks a helluva lot like Santa, or is that just me?
Also, Helen Blavatsky was in a nightmare I had when I was a teenager.
I know they like to put these things down as, oh it's just your subconscious putting faces that you've seen irl into your dreams, but no.
Not this one. I had no interest in browsing the internet and using it as a research tool back then as I do today.
My learning was centered around actual encyclopedias that you could page through, which at the point in time I hadn't done since primary school. The only use of the internet I had back then, especially around the time period I had this nightmare, was to go on chatrooms and catch up with hubby.
Plus, we had dial up. Kids today don't understand the absolute pain and frustration dialup caused. For someone like me who hasn't got a grain of patience, the internet was a painful thing and I didn't use it much. So, again, no, this woman was not put into my subconscious via an information highway.
I did come across her face a few years afterward online and found it so entirely WTF that I abandoned the internet for well over a year. Because holy crackers WTF, really.
I didn't even bother trying to find out who she was. I just saw her face, freaked out and told my mum, whom of course shrugged me off and did nothing to comfort or reassure me that I'm not totally mental.
Today I'm researching alchemy and ether (as the first is being taught to my MC and the second I'll need to understand first before I can incorporate it into my book). Alchemy leads me to the Soul Elements. The Soul Elements leads me to the etheric, and the etheric leads me to Charles Webster Leadbeater, who has written a ton of books on clairvoyance, the metauniverse and thought-forms and auras, and of course things like matter.
Coincidentally, he also partnered up with no other than Russian author Helen Blavatsky, the woman from my nightmare.
Then again, according to a science paper I read, there are no coincidences. What happens to the physical body happens to the etheric body. The saying as above so below comes into play here from alchemy (and the Bible, yo ho ho). What happens here also happens there.
To condense it down to simpler terms, there is a reason I had that nightmare and this is the reason, to direct where to go.
Yes, I am crazy. I don't care.