Victoria LePage
Encyclopedia
Life
She was raised in a fundamentalist Protestant church being very religious as a child. At 21 an illumination of consciousness descended on her for two days, which changed the course of her life.This resulted in out-of-the-body flights
Out-of-body experience
An out-of-body experience is an experience that typically involves a sensation of floating outside of one's body and, in some cases, perceiving one's physical body from a place outside one's body ....
across the world to a place referred to as “Night-School”. There she was taught sacred dance
Sacred dance
Sacred dance encompasses all movement that expresses or enhances spiritual experiences. It may be a part of a worship service, a group experience or a private spiritual practice.Some examples of sacred dance are:* Native American Ghost Dance...
s, and later on a body of knowledge that included things about the earth of a cosmological and geological nature not yet known to the physical sciences. In 1940 during an out of body experience, she was shown a place that lay in Central Asia and was called Shambhala
Shambhala
In Tibetan Buddhist tradition, Shambhala or Shangri-la is a mythical kingdom hidden somewhere in Inner Asia...
. She now believes this opening up of Shambhala to young uninitiated souls led to the birth of the New Age movement of the sixties and to avant-garde scientists who began to revolutionize the physical sciences. During this early period she became aware of her future spiritual Teacher. He was Indonesian and in fact came to the West twenty years later to establish an esoteric movement that taught a new kind of spiritual practice (Subud
Subud
Subud is an international spiritual movement that began in Indonesia in the 1920s as a movement founded by Muhammad Subuh Sumohadiwidjojo. The basis of Subud is a spiritual exercise commonly referred to as the latihan kejiwaan, which was said by Muhammad Subuh to represent guidance from...
).
In 1961 she was able to join the Teacher who had been assigned to her and remained for many years in the Australian school he founded. The practices taught, centered on an awakening of spiritual energy in the heart. The physical, emotional and mental bodies are all affected, sometimes dramatically.
From 1964 onward she visited Indonesia for fairly long periods at a time, living in various villages in Java and becoming acquainted with some of its many occult sects and the religious beliefs.
"From 1964 onward I visited Indonesia several times for fairly long periods at a time, living in various villages in Java and becoming acquainted with some of its many occult sects and the religious beliefs, its people have evolved from a creative synthesis of animism, Hindu-Buddhism, Islam, Taoism, Christianity and Theosophy."http://www.victoria-lepage.org/biography.htm
For the past twenty years she has moved among a number of other spiritual paths and begun late in life what has developed into a literary career.
Book
- Shambhala: The Fascinating Truth behind the Myth of Shangri-La http://www.victoria-lepage.org/shambhala.htm
- Mysteries of the Bridechamber: The Initiation of Jesus and the Temple of Solomon http://www.victoria-lepage.org/bridechamber.htm
Articles
Theosophical Society- QstUSA y1997 v85 i6 June p18 - A Trafficway of Angels: The Myth of Shambhala [excerpts] -- Victoria Le Page
- QstUSA y1998 v86 i2 February p46 - Javanese Mysticism and the Badui People -- Victoria Le Page
- QstUSA y1999 v87 i6 Nov_Dec p212 - The God Debate: Monotheism vs Panentheism in Postmodern Society -- Victoria Le Page
OnLine
- Victoria LePage Sufis and The Nine Unknowns http://www.victoria-lepage.org/future_work.htm
- Victoria LePage Lessons of Old Age http://www.victoria-lepage.org/lessonsofoldage.htm
- Victoria LePage Nostradamus Prophet of Hope http://www.victoria-lepage.org/Nostradamus.html
- Victoria LePage The Roerich Expeditions: Magical Gifts http://www.victoria-lepage.org/roerich_magical_gifts.htm
- Victoria LePage Is Democracy Under Threat? http://www.victoria-lepage.org/democracy_under_threat.htm
- Victoria LePage Prophecy in the Third Millennium http://www.victoria-lepage.org/prophecy_3rd_millennium.htm
- Victoria LePage G.I. Gurdjieff and the Hidden History of the Sufis http://www.victoria-lepage.org/G.I.%20Gurdjieff%20Hidden%20Sufi.html
In Print
- "Prophecy in the Third Millennium", NEW DAWN Magazine No. 105, 2007-12-01.