Theos-Talk Archives (August 2003 Message tt00160)

I was glad to see the detailed msg of Mr. Oliveira, thanks to the marvel of 
Internet. I am copying this msg to him as well.

At least now, we have information which is recorded in the Minutes of the 
GC and the Annual Report of TS. As they go only to the GC members, rank and 
file members are in the dark and have to go by hear say, which many times 
end up being incomplete and erroneous and distorted and in this day of 
Internet, information - both correct and incorrect - spread with lightning 
speed which can do a lot of good or harm.

I recall having read an account of the way info from and to GC was 
transmitted in the early days of TS when the number of branches were small. 
Each branch had a designated member who acted as the conduit and hence all 
the members of branches were kept upto date on the proceedings of the GC. 
All this changed when TS grew.

For the several decades I have been around TS, I have not seen any 
information on the decisions of the GC disseminated to the rank and file 
membership. May be it would be a good idea to find an method which is 
effective and efficient and timely to disseminate major decisions of the GC.

It looks like with the help of Internet, dissemination of info should be 
very inexpensive, timely and effective and efficient. This may be a policy 
issue that the GC may want to look into which cannot but help the TS and 
Theosophy in today's world.

My 2 cents worth.

mkr
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Mr. Oliveira wrote:
>All the above decisions were reported in the Minutes of the General
>Council of the Theosophical Society, as well as in the Annual Report
>of the TS which also goes to all Council Members, who include more
>than forty members world wide.


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