Theos-Talk Archives (July 2004 Message tt00219)

Hi Katinka
Thanks for your comments.
Really Ken has very good interesting books and that makes us think a lot.
I havenīt not yet read a book of his up to the end, just fragments here and there na some reviews from which I have drawn my (too fast) conclusions.
Coincidentally or not I was starting to read Kenīs " A theory on everything" when you mentioned him.
Someone who produced very good books was also Thomas Merton where he draws a very deep analysis on human behaviours towards faith and beliefs on God.
Inspite of his being a trapist monk, he was essecially buddhist.
The thing is that it seems - also like you said in another post - that western has some sort of a more lazy mind, IMO of course and eastern philosophy encounters more understanding barriers.
I have downloaded a great amount of Powerpoint presentations from the site www.upasika.com and all the races/round under animated diagrams formats, beautifully rendered, but unfortunately they lack the audio which would probably be from alive lectures of very smart theosophists at Adyar.As for didactic purposes itīs OK,.
I encourage all the members who read in Spanish ( very similar to our portuguese) or feel more comfortable reading in spanish than in Enlish, to download the free books of this site! 
Theyīre dozens, also from Antroposophy and other related subjects.
Regards
Krishtar
----- Original Message ----- 
From: Katinka Hesselink 
To: theos-talk@yahoogroups.com 
Sent: Friday, July 16, 2004 3:09 PM
Subject: Re: Theos-World rounds and races


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



   
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