Modern Theosophy

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... Read More

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... Read More

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... Read More

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... Read More

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... Read More

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... Read More

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... Read More