Theos-Talk Archives (March 2005 Message tt00696)

In a message dated 3/29/05 9:10:55 PM Central Standard Time, 
eldon@theosophy.com writes:

<< Others are in seeker mode, not heavily involved in learning something new,
but rather puzzling over what's true and what's not about every possible
thing. For someone in that phase, any learning and study of a particular set
of theosophical or metaphysical doctrines is a waste of time, since they
don't see the point in learning something when they're not sure how real its
foundations are >>

There is another mode, where truth or not-truth are irrelevant, as the 
working assumption is that total truth is not going to be discernible and probably 
not very useful in the short run anyway.

In that, case ideas are studied, not because they will lead to some ultimate 
unifiying system of reality, but rather because they can be adapted to one's 
life at the moment, recognizing that as life changes, certain ideas will become 
less useful and discarded while others, overlooked at another time, may prove 
just what is needed at the time.

To such a person, Leadbeaterian Theosophy,to use the example at hand, may be 
very useful at one point in his life because that was what he needed but can 
be looked on in later years as utter nonsense, but at least it was entertaining 
nonsense that had some practical value, unlike worrying about rounds and 
chains and a whole bunch of psuedo-sanskrit balderdash which may be anything but 
balderdash to someone doing a different life thing. To that second person, 
rounds and chains really do matter.

And if anyone can make any sense out of what I just wrote, please tell me 
because I can't.

Chuck the Heretic