Theos-Talk Archives (July 2004 Message tt00204)

Hi Krishtar,

I don't know about Wilber rejecting occultism. He mentions both Besant
and Leadbeater in the book I'm reading right now. The reason I mention
him is that he talks about spiritual evolution and that is ultimately
the subject of The Secret Doctrine (or volume II). I do agree - and
that is where your puzzlement comes in - that in many of the details
the two diverge a lot. But most of HPB's details can't be checked
anyhow. What do we really know about Atlantis? I mean other than what
HPB wrote... Wilber writes only about what can be checked and verified
by science, but includes the evidence of mystics (and that is more
than most scientists want to take seriously). So re your question on
scientists who study these things: Wilber does. His perspective is
just very different. 

The TS published those things (my guess) because the second object of
the TS-Adyar is the study of science, religion and philosophy. Wilber
does all three. He also takes spiritual experiences seriously - quite
revolutionary, from a scientific point of view. So it is completely
natural that his books were published by the TPH/Quest [whichever it
was]. However important Blavatsky is, there is still more to theosophy
than commenting on and rephrasing her work. 

Katinka
--- In theos-talk@yahoogroups.com, "krishtar" <krishtar_a@b...> wrote:
> Katinka,
> Hi
> Wilber rejects occultism! but his first 2 books were in the
theosophical society, which I donīt sincerely understand either.
> In what book specifically do you mean he writes about these subjects
I mentioned?
> 
> Krishtar