The daily Bulletin of Adyar Convention for the sixth day, December 31, 2010 is now on the Adyar website.



There is a summary of a lecture by Radha Burnier, International President, on the topic of ‘Who am I?”. There are also summaries of talks by:…



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I just found out that the book - Helping the Dying by Nelda Samarel is available for download from the following link. My only wonder is why not much publicity has been given using Internet resources such as this website and www.theosophy.net, because most may not have even heard about TOS website.



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The Bulletin for the 5th Day of the Adyar Convention is now on Adyar website.



For some reason, there was a delay in it being uploaded to the site.



The bulletin contain summaries of talks by:



Lakshmi Saripalli

Marcos Resende

Svitlana Gavrylenko

Abraham Oron



The talk by Saripalli is on Changing Environment which was delivered as the Theosophy Science lecture.



There is news about activities around the world and this keeps us informed of…

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The Adyar Convention Bulletin 4 is now online at the Adyar website.



It contains summary of lectures by:



Olande Ananda

N R Narayana Murthy

Colin Price

C A Shinde



Also an account of the TOS activities is there.



A summary of the activities of TS mostly in South American countries can be found in the Bulletin.



There are two significant facts that I noticed. The first one was that in Chile, electronic publications are well received. Should… Continue

The eight page bulletin for third day of the convention is on the Adyar website.



The attendance at the convention is 1,200 plus, which is a welcome news.



There are summaries of talks by:



Dianne Kynaston

M P Singhal

Avantika Mehta



In addition, there are summaries of activities in many of the European Countries. What is striking for anyone who has been in India, is how minuscule the membership in many of these countries.



Many of the lodges in… Continue

Eight page Daily Bulletin for the second day of the Convention is on the

Adyar website and is informative and would be welcomed by everyone.



It contains summaries of talks by:



Linda Oliveira

John Vorstermans

S Sundaram

R C Tampi

Chong Sanne



There is also a list of General Secretaries and representatives attending

the convention. The attendance this year is much better than last year

(especially from the West) and we will…

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For the first time in TS history, members around the world are able to keep up with the daily happenings at the International Convention through the daily bulletin that is posted at the Adyar Website.



Here is the link.



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The 135th International Convention at Adyar will commence tomorrow. A

visit to the Adyar website gave me a surprise. Daily Bulletins in pdf 



format for each day is indicated. So you can visit each day and see the

bulletin and know the highlights of the day. This is a small step in 

providing info on the happenings on a daily basis. I hope, next year,

Adyar resorts to live streaming of the programs, which will bring 



membership in closer contact…

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Traditionally, in print media, an index is compiled and put at the end of the publication. Modern digitization technology has enabled every word in the pdf file to be indexed. This enables one to search for a word or words in the entire file, which is very powerful and handy for the reader.

 

All the Theosophist and Lucifer files in this site are searchable pdf files. The credit goes to Marc who took care of the processing after scanned file was available.

 

Use…

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Theosophical disconnect



Frequently one finds a disconnect between what theosophists talk about and act. This is all the more so when you deal with ‘organizational’ theosophists.



The scanning and uploading of early issues of Theosophist on this site is an  invaluable resource…

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The volumes scanned and made available due to the labors of dedicated theosophists contain very valuable information which many will find it interesting and useful. But for Internet, it would have been almost inaccessible for ordinary readers. Now the task is for the masses to get to know about it. Most of us use search engines to find information and hence I expect most readers will come to the site from searches. In the meanwhile, let each one of us spread the word.

As usual, the International Convention will start on December 26, 2010 in

Adyar. Here is the tentative program I found on Adyar Website. What is

significant is that the General Council Meeting schedule is also included.



Program Link



If anyone with a computer is attending the Convention, it would be very

informative if a daily - one…

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Katinka, in her blog, brought attention to the two theosophical books published in 2010; one by Joy Mills on ML and the other SD Commentaries.



It is a pity that neither is cheap and especially the Commentaries are very pricey and out of reach of most middle class theosophists especially in the third world.



The decision makers could have simply made an electronic edition available on Internet. All books, these days are first created in electronic media and then only it is…

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Why TS/TSA should make electronic versions of publications available for free?



The current situation regarding electronic version of SD Commentaries (SDC) has brought focus on the need for the publications to be made available as pdf files.



In the case of SDC, due to the pricey hard copy publication, someone has taken the trouble to scan it to a pdf file and make it available on Internet. Since the copyright holder objected to it, it was removed from the website. But in the… Continue

All tax exempt organizations are required to file Form 990 each year with IRS and it is a public document. With the advent of Internet, the returns are available online. On of the members on this site suggested we post the most recent return available. Here is the return -->>. TCO08990.pdf.