In the 1960s Marcia Moore studied yoga under internationally known Swami Vishunu-Devananda at a year-round retreat in Val Morin near Montreal.

Years before she had already begun exploring her interest in yoga. “Tomorrow for our “Saturday circus” a man is coming to give us a demonstration of hatha yoga. He is a remarkable person, looks thirty five though is fifty, and is also an esotericist of no mean degree. Though he has a job in the government he teaches yoga also in Calcutta and finds that most of his students are Americans. So I am taking that up too and though can not yet even stand on my head have great aspirations of someday being able to tie myself in knots. It is wonderful for both health and figure and all very scientifically worked out,” Marcia Moore, 1956.

Bestselling author and journalist Jess Stearn of New York Daily News, who wrote Edgar Cayce the Sleeping Prophet, wrote about his experience at Marcia’s own “yoga camp,” held out of her home in Concord, Massachusetts. “Looking at her watch with a small cry of horror, she announced “I must get home to the children.” She hardly looked old enough to be married.” Jess Stearn on Marcia Moore from his 1965 book Yoga, Youth, and Reincarnation.

During a period spent living in India, Marcia attempted to master several languages:

“Am making an intensive study of Hindi also with Bengali and Kashmiri on the side. The tutor comes three evenings a week. Much love…”

“I shall certainly keep up with the Hindi and Urdu…”

"Sanscrit, you may know, is sometimes annotated just like music with each syllable to be sounded on a certain note so that probably accounts for the singsong effect."

Marcia Moore, circa 1950s

Theosophical Society co-founder Madame Blavatsky claimed that throughout childhood she experienced visions of a Hindu man, Master Morya, whom she would later describe as a “Master of Wisdom.”

Esoteric author Alice A. Bailey also had a spirit guide, Djwhal Khul, a.k.a. “The Tibetan,” whom she believed she was a disciple of. Marcia Moore was a personal friend of Alice Bailey. Marcia kept a small framed photo of “The Tibetan” in her study, and also claimed to have communication with “The Tibetan.” “Consequently, I know him as “the old alchemist” and more intimately and reverently as “The Master Dorje,” Marcia once described.

In addition, Marcia Moore had her own spirit guide…

The belief in the everlasting and transitory soul into successive forms of existence.

“When we outgrow a suit of clothes or a house, we must search for another one more adequate for our needs. In the same way, the soul uses and discards one body after another as it seeks ever more adequate means for expressing its own divine nature,” Marcia Moore, 1960s.

In eastern philosophies, reincarnation also carries the belief in karmic law, which states that one’s behavior in current life has a ripple effect on future existences and presents challenges to overcome. Perhaps a previous existence as a pest responsible for bubonic plague, for example, caused a reincarnation as a lab rat, Marcia Moore contemplated.

In 1960, Marcia Moore planned to open an astrology studio with a highly regarded astrologer friend in the Boston area.

Years before, while in India, she had begun studying astrology. “Sent to me two charts to read “blind” which I hate to do as I don’t yet have the knowledge or intuition for the job and even the best astrologer can do little without some idea of the stage of development of the personality with which he is dealing,” Marcia described in 1957.

A few years later in Massachusetts, Marcia Moore studied diligently for several years with highly regarded lecturer, counselor and astrologer Isabel M. Hickey “Issie” author of Astrology, A Cosmic Science.

“I encountered the “Great Invocation” which for more than thirty-five years has been my personal mantram,” Marcia Moore, 1978.

The invocation is a universal beckoning to God to bestow on humanity the light of His mind and heart, to seal out evil, and restore the divine plan for the world.

“Many years ago when I first delved into the neoplatonic concept of archetypes (now incarnated in Jungian psychology) I was quite confused as to just how these original models affect our consciousness,” Marcia Moore, 1978.

One might have an image, prototype, or “archetype” for a saint, hero, mother, grandfather, etc. A term used by psychiatrist Carl Jung in 1919, to aid in exploring the psyche.

Defined by Marcia as the proper art of dying. “Evidence shows that individuals in Atlantis and other legendary civilizations were in possession of the sacred secret of leaving an outworn body at will. A few modern-day yogis may still possess that capability but for the most part it has been lost,” Marcia Moore, 1978.

Statement of Purpose:

“Ananta Ashram is an association of individuals who are devoting their time to mediation, teaching, and research on hypersentience, telepathy and the estheric body….

Ananta Ashram is also a clearing house for information pertaining to the remembrance of previous existences, intervals between lifetimes, and other material gathered while in a heightened state of consciousness. Its associates are especially eager to collect and correlate personal experiences relating to extraterrestrial intelligences, subtle realms of being, lost civilizations (such as Atlantis and Lemuria) ancient history and projections into the future.”