30-Day writing - Blavatsky When I was a child there was a book at home called "Metaphysics". It wasn't the one written by Aristoteles, but one inspired by an assortment of ideas picked out from the New Age movement. I used to read this book and I found it pretty cool. It presented a different perspective about the world and religion, and it included some numerology too, so I had a great time working out the birth dates of everybody around. Then when I had access to internet, for my utter dismay, I found out that the author had committed suicide and that pretty much all of her ideology had been based on a misinterpretation of Helena Blavatsky's ideas. For the record, Helena founded the Theosophy movement that mixed esoterism, religion, occultism, spiritism and a bunch of other things. She was, without a doubt, an influencer of her time and of the times that followed her, even the Nazis based their ideology on some of her ideas. Nevertheless, despite the book was totally mistaken, it gave me access to new ideas and opened my mind to a new knowledge that came to comprehend later in life. So the moral of the story is, on the one hand, don't believe in everything blindly, and on the other hand, that you can learn something valuable even from a bad source.