Lewis Thompson (1909 – 1949). Hippy, Poet, India wallah, who spent 18 years in India and died in Varanasi
A Totnes friend, Rob Brown, kindly gave to me a truly remarkable compact book, Mirror to the Light: Reflections on Consciousness and Experience by Lewis Thompson, an Englishman from Fulham, London, who died aged 40 in the scorching summer heat of Varanasi, India in 1949. …