I took some nice pictures, but Tom Dede from Hungary is a professional photographer and took over 1000 photographs. He gave me permission to use them, but needed some time to select the best ones. Then of course I made my selection and did some photoediting and here is the result. Since this is officially [...]
It’s no secret the Theosophical Society has been losing members since the 1930′s. What’s less well known is that this has meant a large inheritance for the lodges and sections: in the form of money and property. Recently though several such estates have made headlines on theosophical forums: Teckels park in England is being sold [...]
Hi MKR [In response to something he wrote on Theos-talk, July 19th 2010], You wrote: > In the recent world Congress, I thought the leaders from the Sections will > have an informal or formal session addressing the membership growth issue. I > am disappointed that there was none and are we to take it [...]
Just to make it clear that the TS Adyar does not discriminate against that third founder of the Theosophical Society, I want to draw attention to the review of ‘Echoes of the Orient’, the writings of William Quan Judge, in The Theosophist of July 2010. The review by A. Kannan consists mostly of quotes. For [...]
These are some of the pictures I took and people took for me at the world conference organized by the Italian Section of the Theosophical Society Adyar, in Rome 2010. There were 524 registered visitors.
There was some complaining before hand, and during the congress, on the workshops. I thought for instance that it was impossible to do a workshop with a hundred people. It turns out though: it IS possible. And the person who showed me that (though she didn’t have to take on that challenge, because only 20 [...]
I came to the World Congress mainly for the people – as I do for any theosophical meeting. And the people were great. I met inspiring and hard working people from all over the world, and have learned about theosophical issues and activities all over the world. I do think in general the atmosphere of [...]
When the word ‘selfish’ is used, it usually means there is a moral judgement of someone else involved. As the Americans say ‘walk the talk’… I think the amount of talk is inversely proportional to the mileage of the walk. -Edi Bilimoria The easiest question to ask is the hardest to answer. Because the real [...]
I have never been to a theosophical meeting with so much technology: everybody is taking pictures with their own digital cameras. Live streaming and tv’s at the back of the hall so everybody can see the speakers properly. But the one feature of this congress that I think people most enjoy is the pool. It [...]
While we’re listening to lectures on brotherhood, some people had some poignant remarks. For instance, various suggestions were made to replace ‘Dear Brothers and Sisters’ with Dear friends, monads, and countrymen, lend me your ears Dear permanent atoms … Someone else thought that ‘dear sister Jane’ had a Catholic sound. Then the insight that ‘The [...]
