Theos-Talk Archives (December 2004 Message tt00115)

One thing Theosophists need badly today is HPB's and HSO's spirit of 
debunking the complete idiocy of a lot of New Age ideas. They were 
very successful in investigating and exposing the "spirit rappings" 
and other table-tipping and such stuff, which led them to the reality 
of Theosophy. Today we have "channellers" coming out our "ying-yang" 
and new "revelations" spring up faster than we can even read them. 
Weiser Books and Quest and a few others are pretty good at keeping to 
reality, but there are more "Pleidian channellers" spinging up than 
you can count. Erica has been excellent at debunking, or graciously 
rejecting, a lot of this stuff, but we need to keep "on our toes" 
individually as well. I mentioned Harold Percival's "Thinking and 
Destiny" because of one idea in it, not to endorse the book---which I 
don't. The same applies to "The Urantia Book" and "Oahspe" and 
hundreds of others. The truth is not "out there" (TV), it is in us. 
We need to seek the divine in ourselves as HPB taught. I'm as 
fascinated with the universe as anyone, but what we see so far is a 
plethora of fiery anamolies that we have yet to make sense of 
scientifically. HPB's "Secret Doctrine" has come the closest to 
making sense of it, and that's no doubt why Einstein was interested 
in the book. Theosophists! Open your eyes and stop contemplating 
your navels and trying to find your "astral bodies"! As HPB 
said: "The time for thinkers has come."

Andrew