Theos-Talk Archives (June 2003 Message tt00228)

Hi Sufilight,

You may be interested to hear that in the below you echo the Bowen 
Notes whose historical background is at present being contested.

http://www.katinkahesselink.net/metaphys/th-bowen.htm

Katinka
--- In theos-talk@yahoogroups.com, "Morten Nymann Olesen" <global-
theosophy@a...> wrote:

> Indoctrination may be called 'the instilling of attitudes without
> the saving grace of digesting them'. Indoctrination is not what
> some people claim, that is to say the more rapid accomplishment
> of something which ordinarily takes a culture many years to
> achive.
> What makes a 'digested' system more acceptable than an
> imposed one ?
> Two things. First a greater time-scale and conditions of 
> freedom give an opportunity for rejection. Second, where there
> is a time-scale measured in years - and where there is oppor-
> tunity for dissent and discussion, there is room for modification.
> Inducing people to believe things - and the, usually, turning
> around and saying that this belief, because it is belief, is sacred 
or
> even inevitable - is the hallmark of indoctrination.
> Putting forward, and giving people information which
> enables them to test these (including testing then against other
> ideas) spells freedom and education, both of which are distorted
> or abolished by indoctrinatior.
> Two things prevent the foregoing being widely known at the present
> time: -
> 
> 1. The discovery, certainly in the 'West' and modern world, is 
> recent. I will take time to percolate.
> 2. When the facts are presented, they are an embarrassment to
> those who, examining their own attitudes, realise that,
> in certain areas, they are themselves victims of
> indoctrination.