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== Steve Hecht's Commentary ==
After flying back to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boston,_Massachusetts Boston] I vividly [[remember]] sitting in my car, [[listening]] to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Petty_and_the_Heartbreakers Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers]’ [[song]], “[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Learning_to_Fly_(Tom_Petty_song) Learning to Fly]”:
:…I’m learning to fly
:But I ain’t got wings
:Coming down
:Is the hardest thing…
:I’m learning to fly, around the clouds
:What goes up must come down…
At that [[moment]] I realized that I had been mightily [[touched]] with the [[romance]], the [[grandeur]], and the bittersweet aftertaste of what I could only think of as an [[experiential]] encounter with what [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H.P._Blavatsky H.P. Blavatsky] had often warned her [[students]] about: [https://www.google.com/search?printsec=frontcover&dq=george+steiner+real+presences&hl=en&q=george%20steiner%20real%20presences&sa=N&tab=pw#hl=en&safe=off&sclient=psy-ab&q=spiritual+glamour&pbx=1&oq=spiritual+glamour&aq=f&aqi=g-v1&aql=&gs_sm=3&gs_upl=182044l185751l0l186199l19l15l1l3l3l0l115l1036l13.2l19l0&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_cp.r_qf.,cf.osb&fp=9bf999b8b987bb6c&biw=643&bih=677 spiritual glamour].
For an interesting theosophical commentary on spiritual glamour, see [http://theosophytrust.org/tlodocs/articlesWQJ.php?d=GLAMOUR.htm&p=95 this link]
