Theos-Talk Archives (March 2004 Message tt00595)

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

> 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


Thanks for the clarification, Jerry. Your last visit to Krotona 
probably was before 2002, as at that time many of the houses which 
had been vacant were occupied and many of them were renovated. A 
beautiful meditation garden was built at the top of the hill and was 
dedicated by Shirley Nicholson.

Your posting threw me into a reverie. I first visited Krotona as a 
scholarship student from Brazil in 1983. In those days the 
student/faculty units didn't exist, and I and an Uruguayan student 
were accommodated in Taormina, the adjoining community, next to the 
house of Jim Perkins. It was two and half months of intense 
theosophical study and I still remember the many hours I spent with 
vol. X of HPB Collected Writings, particularly the article "Is 
Theosophy a Religion?"

To have had the opportunity to meet and share the company of people 
like Virginia Hanson, Felix Layton, Hector Bejarano, Jim Perkins, 
Oliver Green, and many others now gone to their rest, was the 
experience of a lifetime. 

I was told that in the early 1990s more than ten residents passed 
away within one year. It became known as the biggest collective 
excursion to devachan ever in Krotona!

Pedro