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The challenges and opportunities facing the Theosophical Movement
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 – it’s the only way we can reframe the theosophical work in a way that’s relevant for humanity today. What follows is my current view on where we are and need to go.
So,…
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NDE, Buddha on karma, Zen Buddhism books
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A typical (Adyar) theosophist…
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),
- Fill our magazines with new material
- and focus and give…
Added by Katinka Hesselink on June 3, 2010 at 11:30am — 8 Comments
The 10th World Congress of the Theosophical Society
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 Adyar TS website this week in this post.
Seriously – the theme is ‘Universal…
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Aim spiritual path, self control, vegetarianism and reincarnation
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Katinka Hesselink Net
- Correction of Vol. 13 of the Blavatsky Collected Writings (the whole text was a link in each article! I can't believe nobody warned me about that.)
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Names, gemstones, Radha Burnier, Subba Row and lodges
me to blog less last month than usual. I will still try to blog weekly, but I'm very likely to miss a few weeks here and there.
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The story of a revitalized theosophical lodge
As any group therapist can tell you, group work is complicated. The history of the churches too can be read as a continuing story of growing and shrinking congregations. One of the reasons new congregations often grow is not just that they offer an approach that works for the time, but also that they're simply, being new, more open to new people. Their group structure isn't fixed yet and so it's easier for them to accommodate and welcome new people.…
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Bhagavad Gita, Koran, Hindu Mythology and Free Will
New blog (again) Spiritual India Trip
I've been fairly busy again this month. I went public with my plans to
go to India next year and started a blog where I'll be gathering my
research and thoughts. Of course I'll also use it to as a sort of diary
once I am in India. And yes, I'll keep you up to date about the newest
posts on this blog on this… Continue
Added by Katinka Hesselink on March 2, 2010 at 6:40am — 2 Comments
Freedom, statistics, blavatsky news and more - Lucifer7, February 2010
New online
On Blogger (aka, not by me)
This is not exactly a new blog. It's just that I only became aware of it recently (thank you Michael Gomes). It's called 'Blavatsky News', but the subjects are far wider. It contains a lot of book reviews and (surprise) the authors seem to know what they are talking about.
- Blavatsky News. They announce, among other things, that…
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'Theosophy for a new generation of inquirers / enquirers' ;)
Why? Well, first off - the variety of spellings used. Colin Price (from the UK) had as his title 'Theosophy… Continue
Added by Katinka Hesselink on January 17, 2010 at 1:22pm — 41 Comments
Spiritual Quotes, Buddhist texts, ACIM, You're not crazy and Quizzes...
Added by Katinka Hesselink on January 6, 2010 at 5:39am — No Comments
Mindfulness exercises, religion trivia, buddhism gifts, etc.
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- Spiritual evolution, cycles, 2012 and wisdom (7 comments)
- When yoga…
Added by Katinka Hesselink on December 1, 2009 at 7:16am — No Comments
Krishnamurti and Theosophy
I've written about this before, so I'll start by quoting myself a few times. Let's start with my first attempt at discussing this:
I still do appreciate Krishnamurti's teachings as valid on the path for many, but aspects of it just don't work… Continue
Added by Katinka Hesselink on November 13, 2009 at 3:09am — 5 Comments
Let's have some fun with trivia quizes :)
Added by Katinka Hesselink on November 11, 2009 at 3:30pm — 13 Comments
Religious symbolism, organised religion vs atheism, global warming ...
Contents of my spiritual newsletter November 2009
New online
Short Quotes
Space
Is Buddhism a Religion?
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Spiritual fantasy; spirituality lifestyle or quest? harry potter; a buddhist...?
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- The God Helmet
- 2010 Spiritual calendars and planners updated
- Planners, date books and agendas: Spiritual and religious…
Added by Katinka Hesselink on October 1, 2009 at 4:11am — No Comments
The challenges that face the Theosophical society Adyar
Real issues we’re facing:
* how to build community online in a way that is productive and helps people grow spiritually
* how to build community offline: help our lodges grow and be places of real study and a meeting place for people of diverse cultural and religious… Continue
Added by Katinka Hesselink on September 11, 2009 at 3:10pm — 3 Comments
Meditation on the Secret Doctrine, dreams, conditioning and Tibet
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On Katinka Hesselink Net- Who Am I?, Pablo Sender
- Anniversaries – really not my thing… (2 comments)…
Added by Katinka Hesselink on September 7, 2009 at 4:51am — No Comments
Tangled hierarchies, Buddhism best religion? courage, diversity, calendars and theosophical history
Lucifer7, August 2009
Contents
New OnlineShort Quotes
Mind, H.P. Blavatsky
Averting a Third War, Jiddu Krishnamurti
The Theosophical Attitude to Life
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BTW - for those of you reading my blog by feedreader and wondering why
you haven't been receiving any updates... the feed is now at:
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Quantum evolution, vegetarianism, Sunyata and emptiness, altruism, clairvoyance
Contents of my spiritual newsletter
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Short Quotes
Sunyata
Altruism,Winifred Tiplin
Working in the sun, anonymous
New Online
Checking my links I found a few online texts that had, apparently, not been moved but deleted. This is mostly due to the Canadian website no longer having a large collection of online documents. I still had many links to their stuff…
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