Modern Theosophy

Teckels Park Discussion 2011

februari 14, 2011

I don’t want off topic comments flooding my blog, so those who want to express their concern about the Teckel’s Park issue are welcome to comment on this post. I have deleted them everywhere else. [Update March 25th] There is now official information on the topic available from the English section. See: Teckels Park update 2011. [...]

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More Edi Bilimoria about the Theosophical Work

november 18, 2010

Edi Bilimoria sent me two slideshows. Here’s the best stuff from the second slide show he made for the Theosophical World Congress in Rome 2010. European School of Theosophy in Venice 2010. THE BALANCE BETWEEN THEORY AND PRACTICE/EXPERIENCE CAN BROTHERHOOD BE LEGISLATED? WHAT IS THE PLACE OF RULES? Do Dogs Wag Their Tails or Tails [...]

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Edi Bilimoria about the work of the Theosophical Society / Theosophical Movement

november 18, 2010

I can’t believe I’m putting up another post devoted to the World Conference, but Edi Bilimoria sent me the slides from his lecture there this summer and I got around to looking at them just now. [edit]They’re actually from the Venice European School of Theosophy [/edit] And they’re good. I’d forgotten how good. Sharing with [...]

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Is the Theosophical Movement proving it’s urgency still?

november 3, 2010

My brother said something wise this weekend when we ran into each other on a train station. He said that artists have to continually prove their urgency. He’s in training to be an actor, so he’s obviously thought about the topic. I’m used to disagreeing with this brother – I will always try and point [...]

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The Theosophical Society as a support system for those in spiritual transformation?

oktober 27, 2010

Radha talks a lot about spiritual transformation. Our lecturer tonight (theosophical professor Hans Gerding) had hands and feet for that concept. He thinks that one of the unique selling points of the TS is that it has the expertise to help people with kundalini awakening, and other spiritual experiences and crises. I don’t think he [...]

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Why I will probably stay in the Theosophical Society: lodge work

oktober 25, 2010

I know I sometimes scare people a bit with my cynicism about the Theosophical Society. There is one aspect of the work though that compensates for worries about the future and questions about the organization… it’s the lodge work. I fell in love with lodge work 17 years ago as soon as I felt it, [...]

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Radha Burnier, the 7th president of the Theosophical Society

oktober 22, 2010

On a new theosophical blog, Esoteric Philosophy, Carlos Cardoso Aveline (a former member of the Adyar TS) notes: According to some, the fact that Radha Burnier is the seventh international president means that she closes a whole septenary cycle from the point of view of the outer and bureaucratic shell of the Adyar movement. There [...]

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What’s the theosophical work?

september 7, 2010

We live in strange times. I grew up saving newspaper clippings of interesting facts, stories and opinions I’d found. My parents did the same. Why? Because the only way to be sure of details that were important, was to keep track of them somehow. These days, of course, IF we save newspaper clippings, we do [...]

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How to get more members in the Theosophical Society (Adyar)

juli 30, 2010

In response to a post by MKR to Theos-talk who has been saying he would have liked the topic of membership decline discussed openly at the world congress. (July 22nd 2010) I think everybody knows that the TS has faced a downward membership trend since the 1930s. What can the study of statistics do to [...]

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More photographs of the 10th World Congress of the Theosophical Society (Adyar)

juli 28, 2010
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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 photo-editing and here is the result. Since this is officially [...]

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