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 [...]
Theosophical World Congress Rome 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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
