Transcription of a TV Interview with
fromTuesdayLobsangRampa Website
This interview was aired on the program '
Citizens of the World
' Tele-Metropole C.F.T.MMontreal in the early 70s. The interviewer and filmer was
Alain Stanke
, Rampa's friend,neighbour and French publisher.The interview was originally in English, translated into French in Stanke's book "
Lobsang Rampa, Imposteur Ou Initie
?" and retranslated back into English by
Nicholas D.
"I am Lobsang Rampa. Maybe you've heard of me before. But my very good friend
AlainStanke
asked me to say a few words on tape. I wouldn't have done it for anyone else. But Alain Stanke is a young man with many capabilities so I reply to his invitation to say these fewwords:I hope that you've read or that you'll read my books because I think that if a greater number of us followed this golden rule 'Do unto others' then the world would be a better place to live in.Look at the problems in Ireland where Christians are killing other Christians. I wonder why? It'sa mystery. They still speak the same language, they have the same religion, but there is thisbloody war. But here in Quebec there are also difficulties because of the difficulties withlanguage. Personally I've suffered a lot from discrimination because I don't speak French. It'sabsolutely true, I assure you. The best thing would be for people to give up the French andEnglish languages (except as a cultural asset) then they could practice telepathy! That's how itwas before the tower of Babel when everyone spoke his own dialect after having losttelepathic power. Think how fine it would be to be able to communicate with anyone bytelepathy.Did you know that in Montreal there are some very good people? I've mentioned my very goodfriend
Alain Stanke
, a great companion. But there are others,
Mr H. Mendelson
of
Simon'sCameras
, the most honest man you could find. Such a nice man I'm proud to call a friend.In
Habitat
where I live like a hermit, I don't see anyone. I don't want to see anyone! The manwho makes it possible is
Mr Bernard Gobeil
, the administrator of
Habitat
. He's managed torent all of Habitat while before it was almost empty. So I greet Mr Gobeil who put his energiesand made a great job as an administrator. Another friend is
Mr Jean Louis Bigras
from
Rimouski
. He likes Montreal so much that he's decided to come and live here. So now I amsurrounded by people with whom I can speak, but not in French. Maybe I should use telepathywith them!There is a critic who said he could not read more than a chapter of '
Feeding the Flame
'. Buthow can he be able to criticize a book he hasn't read? I have the impression that critics of books are people who haven't the skills or knowledge required to write a book, so they onlyhave one way to live in the world of literature, which is to live at the expense of others. By theway, I can't understand those women's libbers as they've got more liberties than men.I receive 40 to 50 letters a day, most of them without postage. Some of them are written withred or green ink or with handwriting which is so tiny that it is hard for me to read them. I had tobuy a huge magnifying glass. When I've answered the letters I immediately destroy them in ashredder; otherwise nosy people search my trash. Don't laugh, they are legion! Several werecaught going through the garbage of
Habitat
.I'll reveal a secret. I've already worked in France and I've learned French. It is a pleasure for me to listen sometimes to people who I see in the corridors or elevators of Habitat. They speakto me in French and I hear so many things about me!I've got two other friends,
Miss Cleopatra Rampa
and
Miss Tadalinka Rampa
two Siamese
cats. They are true friends. Taddy likes to eat. But Cleo is the most intelligent cat living. Shereceives all my thoughts by telepathy. They have a special litter tray and never damage our furniture. They are models of perfection, these cats!People ask me why I came to Canada. The British press made us leave England. We've beenwrongly accused. All kinds of lies have been made up about me. Let me ask you this, wouldyou like to be ill, lying on your back, and seeing a mirror appear at the end of a stick? Wouldyou like to be spied on like this? I had to undergo this little game in Ireland, and the Britishpress invaded Ireland in the same way the British soldiers are currently invading Ireland.We came to Canada because we thought that this country would bring us peace. We were notwrong. It's been bearable...Well now Mr Stanke, you want to know more things about me. Let me tell you, the author of abook doesn't matter, what he writes is important, if it's worth reading.How do I write my books? When I prepare to write a book, I adopt the policy of complete totalinactivity. I build my book in my mind, page after page and don't use my typewriter or dictateuntil my book is complete, very solidly built in my head. When I've got all the material andwhen I've checked and corrected everything, then I can type it by seeing it above me in fullyprinted pages. Everything I do then is to visualize these pages, and retranscribe them with atypewriter made in Japan or I directly record them on a tape recorder.But there's something else which amuses those who live with me. I can stop in the middle of asentence and continue one or two days later, from where I had stopped. They believe it's amatter of memory.Don't ever try to write before you know exactly what you're going to write and when you knowwhat you're going to write don't ever let an agent or an editor persuade you that you shouldn'tdo it. If you have the courage of your convictions, if you've got something to say which is worthwriting and if you know how to do it, then your book has its entire
raison d'etre
. It will sell.Otherwise don't waste your time, knit or do something else!I can write a book in 2 or 3 weeks but 6 months are necessary to build in my mind!"I receive many letters. People want to know how to make babies, how to get rid of babies,particularly those women's libbers. If only people could adopt the golden rule there wouldn't beso many difficulties caused by the language difficulties like there are in Quebec, Belgium andseveral other countries. This old world would be a much better place to live in! If only peoplewanted to give, they could also receive. One has to give his goodwill, his trust in others, hisfaith in man's goodness. And if each one of us paid his share, the
age of Kali
would be over!"
Transcript of an interview Rampa gave in 1958
This is part of a transcript of an
interview Rampa gave in 1958.
’
The Third Eye
’ is absolutely true and all that I write in that book is fact. I, a Tibetan Lama nowoccupy what was originally the body of a western man, and I occupy it to the permanent andtotal exclusion of the former occupant. He gave me his willing consent, being glad to escapefrom life on this earth in view of my urgent need. The actual changeover took place on 13 June1949, but the way had to be prepared some time before that. I know that I have a special taskto do, and I became aware that it would be necessary to come to England for various reasonsconnected with it. In the latter part of 1947 I was able by telepathy to send impressions to a
suitable person. In February 1948 he changed his name by legal Deed Polland took the name of
Kuan Suo
as directed by me.To make the changeover easier, he altered his addresses a number of timesand lost contact with all friends and relatives. On June 13, 1949 he had a slightaccident which resulted in concussion and which ’knocked him out of himself.’This enabled me to take over.I tried very hard to obtain employment in England but for various reasons therewas no assistance from the
Employment Exchange
. For years I visitedEmployment Exchanges ...but none of them did anything for me.For some time we lived on capital which had been saved and upon anythingwhich I was able to earn from doing free-lance writing or advertising.I have a special task to do because during my life in
Tibet
I had been to theChang Tang highlands where I had seen a device which enables people to seethe human aura. I am clairvoyant and can see the aura as I have demonstratedto many people at many times, but I was aware that if doctors and surgeonscould see the human aura then they could determine the illness afflicting ahuman body before it was at all serious. It was not possible for me to come toEngland in the body which I had then. I tried, but to no avail.The
aura
is merely a
corona of discharge of the body
, of the life force. It is similar to thecorona discharge from high tension cables which can be seen by almost anyone on a mistynight, and if money would be spent on research, medical science would have one of the mostpotent tools for the cure of disease. I have to have money in order to carry out my ownresearch, but I have never taken money for curing people’s illnesses or for taking their troublesoff their shoulders, as has been misrepresented in a certain paper. And how did ’
The Third Eye
’ come to be written? I certainly did not want to write it but I wasdesperate to get a job so that I could get on with my allotted task. I tried for job after jobwithout avail, eventually a friend offered to put me in touch with a gentleman would might beable to use my services.
Mr Brooks
said I should write a book. I insisted that I did not want towrite a book and so we parted. Mr Brooks wrote to me again and once more suggested that Ishould write a book. In the interval between seeing him and receiving his letter I had been for other interviews and had been rejected.So, with much reluctance I accepted Mr Brooks’ offer to write a book and here again I repeatthat everything in that book is true. Everything said in my second book ’
Medical Lama
’ is alsotrue. One should not place too much credence in ’experts’ or ’Tibetan scholars’ when it is seenhow one ’expert’ contradicts the other when they cannot agree on what is right and what iswrong, and after all, how many of those ’Tibetan scholars’ have entered a lamasery at the ageof seven and worked all the way through life as a Tibetan, and then taken over the body of awesterner? I have!"
TESTIMONY OF SANYA KUAN S.R.N
"..As far as I can see, it appears that the announcement regarding the author of ’The ThirdEye’ has done nothing but enhance Lobsang Rampa’s prestige, and resulted in bringing hisbest seller more than ever before the public eye. One lady, an authority on eastern methodsand religions, made the remark that if the facts were true, then
Lobsang Rampa
was an evengreater person than ever. Now she is certain that the facts ARE true.Many people will wonder about the one who occupied that western body before it was takenover by a Tibetan, and I , as the wife, would like to tell something of the events leading up tothe change of personality. At the first indication of something different, I was more than a little startled. We were leading aquiet life in Surrey, my husband being on the staff of a correspondence college in an advisorycapacity. Out of the blue came his remark toward the end of 1947. "I am going to change my
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