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 [...]
Theosophical Society Adyar
The introductions to this morning’s symposium lectures was a white delegate from Central Africa. The delegates from Africa are, from what I’ve seen so far, a good mix of black, white and Indian. I met the delegates from Ghana personally and they followed the world cup (won by Spain yesterday) as fervently as people in [...]
Honestly – I had hoped Dara would go into how biology and psychology have shown that compassion is as much built into us as competition is. She didn’t. Her talk was based on a definition of science which covered mostly physics and parapsychology. It was very interesting, however it was impossible to take notes on. [...]
This morning (July 11th) we had the lecture by Professor P. Krishna. His talk was inspiring. He talked about a lot that most of us have heard before: the interconnectedness of everything, ecology and how those isses are caused by people not realizing deeply enough that it’s all us. This post is a combination of [...]
I was foolish enough not to take my laptop to the International Theosophical World Congress, so instead of posting this on my blog (of which I don’t know the password), I’ll post it here. I thought Linda Oliveira’s talk was, in the main, insightful. The title was – ominously – ‘why do we belong to [...]
I think it would be a good idea to set a date / time on our powwow about the future of the TS. There are, so the grapevine tells me, about 400 people coming to the World Congress. That’s huge. I’m also told that the congress in Sidney had workshops that had 80+ people in [...]
As an exercise in PR, I’d like to profile a typical theosophist. Having such a profile might help us in attracting a few of those theosophists outside the TS that Blavatsky mentioned. That is: we should see this person in our minds when we: Create local and national programs (and avoid boring ones like this), [...]
Not only am I going to the World Congress, but I was planning to live-blog it. But now that I’ve seen the proposed program, I’m no longer so sure. In fact, I’m wondering why I’m going in the first place. For entertainment purposes I have put up the program as it was published at the [...]
Purely from a legal standpoint sections are independent from Adyar: Each section of the Theosophical Society Adyar has it’s own local legal format, and the only thing Adyar can do when sections don’t adapt their rules and regulations enough to the international ones is to oust the whole section from the TS. This has happened [...]
I could leave this one at: I have not studied their work enough to say anything substantial about them. Which is true. I’ve read most of Blavatsky and lots of Jiddu Krishnamurti, but very little Besant or Leadbeater. Annie Besant I think it’s clear that Annie Besant was a unique and wonderful person. She stood [...]
