Learning Experience

by Mary Bailey

"A Learning Experience" is an account of the joy and challenge of group discipleship in the modern age with its unique spiritual demands and requirements and its keynote of service in the Aquarian Age. Perhaps nothing else hones the skills and understanding of the aspiring disciple as the lessons learned in group service. Previously unpublished extracts from the Tibetan Master Djwhal Khul's first year of work with Alice Bailey are given, as well as a thoughtful summation by Mary Bailey of her thirty-three years of group work with the Arcane School and the Lucis Trust. For many of those years she served as President on behalf of the work begun by Alice and Foster Bailey and "A Learning Experience" is Mary Bailey's account of the growth of that work into discipleship service of international scope.

256 pages, Paperback

First published October 1, 1990

Reviews

[Steven Chernikeeff · Rating 3 out of 5]

A mixed bag - it gets better when we get to Mary's actual 'learning experience'. The first 70 pages are quotes from Alice Bailey and DK, and the last 100 pages are copies of her lectures. The actual book is in the middle at only 70 pages.

This is a bit disappointing, and even those 70 pages are pretty vanilla. I was hoping for some revelations about her time at Lucis Trust - very little is there. Worth scanning for DK students, but I bought it in 1991 and read it in 2023 as I was travelling and wanted a book for the plane. I didn't miss much in the interregnum. Pity Foster didn't write a memoir too. Pity Mary was not more expansive, and it seems an afterthought to publish this book and pad it out with irrelevant parts at the beginning and end.