Theos-Talk Archives (March 2004 Message tt00590)

Hello Pedro,

I glad that you find Krotona activities stimulating. But to clarify, my 
musing was not about the activities. Rather, it was about all of the 
vacant and run down houses where old friends, now gone, use to 
live--Herbert Staggs, Catherine Mayes, Douglas and Anita Wilde, Flavia 
Snyder.......
--jhe


prmoliveira wrote:

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