Theos-Talk Archives (March 2004 Message tt00555)

--- In theos-talk@yahoogroups.com, Jerry Hejka-Ekins <jjhe@c...> 
wrote:

> At one time I knew a lot of people who lived at the Krotona 
community 
> (Ojai). Most all of them are dead now, and I'm pretty much "out of 
the 
> loop" these days. Perhaps things have changed. Last time I took a 
walk 
> on the Krotona grounds, most of the houses were vacant, and I felt 
like 
> I was visiting a ghost town. 


I visited Krotona in the Fall, 2002. There are many new things 
hapenning there. Shirley Nicholson, former senior editor of the 
Theosophical Publishing House, Wheaton, and an author in her own 
right, is now in charge of the centre and has started a number of new 
initiatives. The Krotona School of Theosophy continues to run 
stimulating courses by a number of well-known scholars, which 
included recently Ravi Ravindra and Huston Smith. This Spring, Joy 
Mills, one of the very well-known students of the oririnal 
literature, will give a series of courses on The Mahatma Letters. See 
program at:

http://www.theosophical.org/centers/krotona/kprograms/index.html#progr
am

The critics of the Adyar TS seem to have a frozen image of it as it 
was in the 1920s. The reality is that the TS has moved on. There is 
no talk of "occult status", initiations, World Teacher, etc, which is 
setting the agenda in the Society today. A great change came upon it 
after N. Sri Ram became its President in 1953. The Theosophical 
Society with International Headquarters at Adyar continues to 
encourage its members and the public to study and live Theosophy, 
while refusing to dictate to them which books are theosophical and 
which are not. The choice is theirs.

Pedro