Eloi-Sun, Kenneth Walker, Thane Walker, simply Thane, and then finally Thane of Hawaii. The reason Thane is on this site is because he was what I refer to as "my Teacher". I studied under him exclusively for seven years. This took place during the '70's when the world was on fire for new ideas and the New Age Movement began to take form. To the "old timers", metaphysicians of probably a stronger constitution than we at the time, would argue that the New Age movement began in the Nineteenth Century, perhaps as Mary Baker Eddy brought forth her realizations along with Phineas Parkhurst Quimby and all of the others.
But for those of us in the Twentieth Century, the New Age Movement erupted in line with a succession of social changes ranging from the Civil Rights Movement, Women's Liberation Movement, Peace Movement, New Age Movement, Ecological (Environmental) Movement and then the Gay Movement. Thrown in there was God Is Dead, the Beatniks and then the Hippies. For those astrologers out there, Neptune went into Sagittarius in 1970 and lasted until 1984 when it went into Capricorn. Neptune going into Sagittarius symbolized the influence of Higher Mind as Teacher being interjected into the everyday affairs of society basically. There was a lot of talk about the Age of Aquarius but the effects of its influence is not yet visible in its entirety but we do know that the world has changed tremendously in that short span of years.When I was Art Director of Teen Screen Magazine I met an actress named Barbara Gates. She came up to our offices on Hollywood Boulevard and we seemed to click right from the start. She had met the publisher at some entertainment event and was given the "grand tour" of what was then the last vestages of the old movie mags empire during a time when Rolling Stone was becoming the end-all of rock and roll publications.
It was awhile later that Barbara invited me to her birthday party. She gave me the address, which was on Blue Jay Way, and explained to me that it was the house George Harrison stayed in he wrote the song of the same name. Now I liked Barbara a lot but frankly, the closest thing to a spiritual experience I had going for me was my admiration of the Beatles. So of course I went to the birthday party.
I arrived and was met at the door by a man and two Syberian Huskies with blue eyes that looked right through you. I was to find out later that it was Ludwig Gerber, the owner of the house and host, was a well known entertainment lawyer and good friend to Thane and over the years helped out with his legal affairs. He took me and my friend to the back of the house where the party was in progress. It was a small dinner party, very private and very exclusive. I say this now because I was young and stupid and a little rude to the bartender who turned out to be a guest at the party. Well he overlooked my stupidity, no doubt because of my age, and fixed me my drink anyway. I looked around the room, trying to act nonchalant. Right away I saw comedian Paul Lynde who was cracking jokes and everyone was laughing. When Barbara was opening her presents, someone had given her one of those joke diamond rings with a rock on it the size of large marble, to which Paul Lynde exclaimed: "My God, I thought it was a flash cube!" It had been said that Paul Lynde could read names out of the phone book and make an audience laugh and it was true. His tenor, his timing, his inflections were enough to bring a smile to the hardest of critics and to others, belly laughs. Next to him was the English actress Hermione Baddeley (films starting in 1930 up through the 80's: Mary Poppins, The Unsinkable Molly Brown, and much more).
Frank Ralston, one time vice-president of the ABC television network, with a cigar in one hand and his scotch in the other laughed louder than anyone. Frank had lost one of his legs during World War II and wore a prosthetic which gave a charactertized swagger to an already definate personality. Frank recalls the story of a gathering he attended when one of his friends, after Frank had become considerably sloshed, nailed his foot to the floor. All of this went on during the ruckus of the evening and Frank never missed a beat and his laughter continued without ever knowing what was happening. When it came time to leave Frank stood up and moved forward only to end up falling flat on his face. Now this could have been a tortureous story for many people but Frank took it in stride, knowing of course he would have stood in line to do the same thing to one of his buddies. A beautiful elegant woman with charismatic demeanor sat quietly at a table with others seemingly aware of everything going on in the room. Her name was Norma Keller and she turned out to be Thane Walker's personal student from way back. She had been a Christian Scientist and latter a follower of Joel Goldsmith. Thane spotted her in the hotel lobby one day many years earlier when she was attending a Joel Goldsmith lecture and basically enlisted her into his Teaching. You could always pick her out easily in a room full of people if you were simply told that she was the one with the floor length Hawaiian gown with short silver white hair who did not walk but glided wherever she went. That was Norma Keller. Next to Thane sat a young man, attractive and well groomed whom I would find out later was Tom Charlesworth, his personal secretary. Tom's mother was the famous singer/actress Marion Bell. Once married to Alan J. Lerner (of Lerner and Lowe fame) Marion Bell starred in the original production of Brigadoon and also in the Marx Brothers movie A Night At The Opera. Among other credits to her name she also was a personal student of Thane Walker and continued with the Teaching until her death. Barbara Gates of course was an actress and had been on the popular TV show "Medical Center" with Chad Everett and James Daly occasionally playing the role of a brain surgeon, which was no easy feat back in that era as she was complete with long platinum blonde hair. Every once in a while I used to see Barbara late a night in a public service commerical showing U.S.O. clips from World War II up to Viet Nam War era shots where she is standing on stage with Bob Hope. I remember her trip overseas and it was a life changing experience for her and for those of us who knew her. She got many of us to wear P.O.W. / M.I.A. bracelets. Toward the end of the evening Thane came up to me and my friend and said: "We have a school down in the Santa Monica area. There are a lot of young people your age there. You should come down some time and visit us." Embarrassed because I didn't know what to say, but inside I was angry because none of my friends were "people my own age". Everyone I knew was older and mature, I guess to make up for what I lacked in that area. A peculiar hodgepodge gathering of interesting people in keeping with my admiration of celebrity. I mean, after all, I was going to be a rock and roll star. Since the archetype for that was the Beatles it is only logical that one might filter their sense of spirituality through something that occupies a great deal of devotion in one's life. That being the case, it ultimately was no surprise that I would meet the man I would call "my Teacher" in a house on Blue Jay Way. However, the significance of this did not really dawn on me until several years after I became a student of Thane. On that momentous day, whenever that was, I realized that since Mind can speak to us in many ways, so too, does one's Teacher speak to them through whatever means are available. I am not saying that Thane had any awareness of this at all, however Mind operates with total sovereignty and as Jesus said of the expression of exhaltation by his followers in recognizing Mind Unfolding: "I tell you, if these (disciples) keep silence the stones will cry out." (Luke 19:40) Energy will express itself where it will. This is physics and this is metaphysics. And just as Lillian De Waters said: "There are no accidents", then it goes without saying that there is meaning in everything. I was on a path of discovering that meaning and this was certainly one of those moments. I recalled those lyrics and listened to them as I never had before as if Thane himself had spoken to me, not as Thane, but as "The Teacher" in that space and time and George Harrison's words served as well, if not better, than anything else out there that I would pay attention to. "There's a fog upon L.A. and my friends have lost their way. They'd be over soon they said, but they've lost themselves instead. Please don't be long, please don't you be very long, please don't be long, for I may be asleep."
I studied exclusively for seven years under this man. Thane had been a student of the famed Fourth Way teacher, G. I. Gurdjieff as well as Emma Curtis Hopkins, Walter Lanyon, Lillian De Waters, Father Divine, Manly P. Hall, and others. The result of this indepth study for me included a lifetime of knowledge as well as everything from Ontology to Fourth Way Training, self-hypnosis, extensive psychological therapies, culminating in the transmission, participation & understanding of the mystical power of Baraka. The process of study under a Fourth Way Master differs from student to student. But the common thread which stands out has to do with looking to the Teacher as one who has gone before. This leadership role goes beyond that of merely presenting a system of thought. It reaches into the invisible and dips into the divine so that each student is presented the opportunity for that which their unfoldment requires. When it was time for me to move on my studies increased greatly. I began a process of studying much of what Thane himself had studied. It wasn't initially my own choice but simply a matter of things coming my way: books, brochures, booklets, other students and teachers. I began to discover more about Thane and his Teaching and the process of unfoldment which he experienced and could see and understand how he put together the magnificent collection of ideas and how he was able to put them together in a manner which was perfect for its place and time.
But as Thane taught, this type of Teaching is essentially an "oral teaching" which requires a living teacher able to present themselves to their students in a place and time which is alive in the spirit of the moment and moving in the rhythm of Truth and Being. This placed a new burden upon me to better understand the material and the process and allow Mind to have its way with me in order that I put together my own presentation in a manner that reflects the times we are living in and the awareness of a future which is yet to be. In this way the "NOWNESS" of the living word becomes a connection which plants seeds of knowing which continue to grow within the student even as the mind works to prepare itself for the wondrous changes yet to manifest.
Thane (Kenneth) Walker, sometimes known as Thane of Hawaii said "My flaming spirit must be given to the flame, all else is consumed. Knowing this I still find that my on-going is not the casting off of a garment, but that it is a skin that I am tearing with my own hands. The impersonal is upon me. Ready am I to come in with eagerness waiting for the spirit to catch my wings and lift me along. - "The awakening which thou has known does not come through the intellect, but rather, in the fullest measure, from the lips of the wise." - The Upanishads
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