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 [...]
Theosophical World Congress Rome 2010
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 [...]
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 [...]
