Some of you have asked whether I will continue this blog. The answer is – I don’t expect to have much to say about the future of the Theosophical Society, or the Theosophical Movement, in future. However, this blog will remain open to people who want to express their vision about the present or future [...]
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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 [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]
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), [...]
I don’t often laugh when opening The Theosophist. In fact, I had not looked at the issues of various theosophical magazines lying around my house for months. But the spirit of boredom made me open them one by one. Most didn’t help me overcome my boredom. So I did not read much. But the table [...]
