In Byrne’s San Francisco Diary, he mentions Madam Helena Blavatsky. He explained how a People of Religions event was held and that its founder was Madam Helena. Madam Helena was a psychic is some ways. She was able to contact or read spirits. Apparently she met someone from her psychic visions and was sent to Tibet to develop her psychic abilities. Eventually she became a huge public figure and arguing against the mainstream idea that spirits contacted were from the dead. While also defending the spiritual phenomena that there was a spiritual world.

Byrne talked about biking in various different parts of San Francisco. He mentions how the people in the Bay Area have this persona of wanting to change the world using technology. Even with this progress of technology, there is a great deal of creative to be shared in the community. Artists making statements with their art is always being shared with the community. Everyone is an insider or an outsider in the art world. Outsider being that they have so unique artistic view which can also mean they have their own style that has not been taught.