Modern Theosophy

Dara Tatray at the Theosophical World Congress

juli 18, 2010
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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. [...]

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P. Krishna at the Theosophical World Congress

juli 18, 2010
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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 [...]

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Linda Oliveira at the Theosophical World Congress about Brotherhood

juli 18, 2010
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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 [...]

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World Congress: Unofficial powwow about the future of the Theosophical Society

juni 30, 2010

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 [...]

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William Quan Judge today

juni 16, 2010

The Aquarian Theosophist goes on writing about their efforts to get the TS Adyar to recognize Judge. I’m pleasantly surprised at the calm tone of their last post. They report that the German TS website mentions Judge as one of 5 theosophists who get a biography on there. I have to agree that it’s a [...]

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SEO: making your theosophy site get google traffic

juni 13, 2010

I know some high up theosophical bobo’s read this blog, so I thought I’d share a must read article on THE main Search Engine Optimization (SEO) blog out there: http://searchengineland.com/seo-checklist-of-best-and-worst-practices-part1-43752 These are only the coding things. Send it to your webmaster and ask them to report on any issues not taken care of. These are [...]

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The challenges and opportunities facing the Theosophical Movement

juni 9, 2010

We had a members meeting in the Dutch TS (Aydar) at the end of May. It was spirited, but business like. That is: we discussed important issues, without scapegoating. I thought I’d share the main issues. I am glad to see that the tabu on discussing these things is leading to important insights coming out [...]

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A typical (Adyar) theosophist…

juni 2, 2010

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), [...]

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The 10th World Congress of the Theosophical Society, Rome, 2010

mei 18, 2010
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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 [...]

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Theosophy as a spiritual path – consequences for the work

april 12, 2010

I’ve heard people say that the Theosophical Society should become more like the Esoteric School: a place where spiritual growth comes first, and every (other) object of the TS second. Reading The Masters Speak: An American Businessman Encounters Ashish and Gurdjieff by Sy Ginsburg this weekend I started to get the why and the how [...]

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