Henry Geiger

He “had been variously a chorus boy on Broadway, a journalist, a conscientious objector in World War II, a commercial printer, and a lecturer at The United Lodge of Theosophists in Los Angeles.”[1] Geiger began work as an actor when he was sixteen and spent three years working with the Theater Guild before becoming a journalist.

[3] During World War II, Geiger was a conscientious objector and was a member of the Civilian Public Service program.

He worked at the CO Camp 76 at Glendora, where he helped found the pacifist newspaper Pacifica Views.

[5] Geiger published the first issue of his journal Manas in January 1948, while he living in Los Angeles.

[6] Abraham Maslow called him “the only small ‘p’ philosopher America has produced in this century.”[1] Geiger was also an advocate of Edward Bellamy's type of socialism.