Theos-Talk Archives (February 1998 Message tt00300)

Thanks for your feedback. The maillists are just the tip of the iceberg.
Great opportunities are in store and who can know what is in store in the
future. Would it not be nice if all those interested in Theosophy and peace
in the world bombarding Clinton with e-mail asking him to concentrate on
his defense of his legal problems and not kill innocent men, women and
children in Iraq by letting loose the military might of US?

We need new ideas of how to use Internet for Theosophy.

mkr


At 05:03 PM 2/21/1998 -0700, you wrote:
>>From Lorraine Christensen
>
>I liked what you wrote.  I see the Internet's potential to be a unifier
>of various TS groups.  We are part of the Worldwide TS Network!
>Discussion groups like theos-talk  are making it happen!  It serves as
>a practical way for us to live out the first object of the Society.
>
>Lorraine Christensen
>henningc@quenet.com
>
>----------
>> From: "M K Ramadoss" <ramadoss@eden.com>
>> Subject: Internet as a Unifier
>> Date: Saturday, February 21, 1998 8:40 AM
>>
>> I have always felt that Internet is going to have a very far reaching
>> effect on the everyone. Its effect is already being felt by those who
>are
>> interested in Theosophy. Whether this is recognized by the
>organizations
>> and their leaders is still unclear.
>>
>> A case in point. When I lived in a large city in India, there was a
>ULT
>> Lodge and three TS Adyar lodges. The largest TS Lodge and the ULT
>were
>> within two miles of each other. Both were quite active. In spite of
>this,
>> the active members of either were not familiar with each others. Much
>less
>> in all the 13 years I lived, I did not see a single instance they had
>any
>> joint effort or joint program. I had attended meetings of both the
>Lodges -
>> TS Adyar and ULT, as a novice not familiar with territorial issues of
>the
>> organizations.
>>
>> Lo and behold, after two decades I got interested in Internet e-mail
>lists.
>> And what do we find? Those interested in Theosophy, belonging to any
>of the
>> organizations as or none interacting and exchanging ideas, discussing
>> various issues and each one is having Theosophy in their hearts. Of
>course,
>> the leadership, especially the TS Adyar is following the old model.
>Have we
>> seen any of the elected officials here or on any other non censored
>> maillists or newsgroups? Let us be charitable, in that most of them
>belong
>> to the old generation and grew up in pre-computer culture and it is
>> difficult to make cultural adjustment and deal with the new medium.
>>
>> On a personal level, each one of us is dealing with others without
>the
>> walls of organizations that tend to separate. Today if I were to
>visit the
>> city in India, it is very easy for me to visit the lodges of both TS
>Adyar
>> and ULT and the membership there would welcome me as a fellow
>T/theosophist
>> rather than as a T/theosophist belonging to the one or the other
>> organization. This breakthrough is something that is stunning and
>that has
>> been accomplished by Internet in a short time.
>>
>> From this example, I see immense potential of Internet to spread
>Theosophy
>> as well as unify all of us who are interested in Theosophy.
>>
>> My 0.02
>>
>> MKR
>>
>>
>