After divorcing Count Czernin, she lived at the house in Ravello, Italy – Villa Cimbrone – that she inherited from her father.
An additional attraction at the Villa Cimbrone was the cliffside 6-floor house, La Rondinaia (the swallow's nest), that she built in its grounds in 1930.
[4] Of natural scientists she particularly admired Fred Hoyle and Sir Arthur Eddington (to whom she dedicated The World Breath (1935)).
In the fields of psychology and religious studies she frequently references Carl Jung, Krishnamurti and Christmas Humphries – all of whom she knew personally.
[5] "When so many writers of today feed vulture-like on the offal of the soul, it is well to turn to a book like this which through the finite imaginatively evokes the infinite" – Daily Telegraph "The author explains (and what erudition has gone towards that explanation!)
how the universe, mankind, sciences, religions, the atom and nebulae, all operate in waves and respond to the Law of Periodicity" – Manchester Evening News In 1948, Beckett was planning to write a book about the psychology of airmen but this project seems not to have been completed.
This book, in which the author attempts to develop a new conception of religion, is believed to have influenced the composer John Cage.