Theos-Talk Archives (December 2002 Message tt00542)

Dear Paul:

It is not uncommon one to be attacked when one is independent minded and 
because the attackers themselves either consciously or unconsciously have 
their set of firmly held beliefs and feel threatened when anyone questions 
them.

In my personal experience, exposure to theosophy seems to have the effect 
of making one an independent thinker. So we end up having to stand alone 
but not isolated and you are in excellent company.

mkr

At 01:12 PM 12/16/02 +0000, kpauljohnson <kpauljohnson@yahoo.com> wrote:
>Several times I've been accused of being part of anti-Theosophical 
>conspiracies, all (IIRC) at times I was a committed and longtime 
>Theosophist. (FYI ex-Theosophist, but not anti-Theosophist, would 
>characterize me for the last several years.) First time was in London at 
>a Theosophical History Conference, where Jean Overton Fuller accused me of 
>being part of a conspiracy to take over Theosophy by the Shah School of 
>Sufism. (Idries, that is, because I cited some of his books.) Later, 
>after my first self-published book came out, it was "dugpas" I was alleged 
>to be in cahoots with, by several people including a high official in one 
>of the TSes. More recently, online, it was "the Jesuits" I was supposed 
>to be in cahoots with. Problem with all these accusations is that I have 
>never known any Jesuits, and have had only limited contact years ago with 
>a few American admirers of Tibetan Buddhism and Idries Shah. All this was 
>made up of whole cloth and says more about conspiratorial mindsets in the 
>world of Theosophists than it does about me.


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