Contemporaries

In contrast, the group titled PB’s Contemporaries refers to individuals who interviewed PB, whom he encountered in his various travels, or about whom he had something to say.   At the time that PB was writing and traveling, there were many people who were also investigating similar ideas including Tahra Bey in Egypt who researched consciousness in his experiments being buried alive and Carl Jung who explored the psyche and meaning in existence itself.  PB had the opportunity to have personal contact with some of these people, with others he only had contact through correspondence, or by studying their written work.  Along with images of such contemporaries we have provided selections from PB’s writings about each individual.