Theos-Talk Archives (March 2006 Message tt00838)

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ON ADYAR'S IRRELEVANCY -- AND

OUR OWN EXTREME IMPORTANCE.

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Friends,


OK. Adyar is irrelevant.

What about Pasadena TS, ULT, Edmonton Theosophical Society, and Tacoma TS?  
All irrelevants, too ?

Is everything irrelevant -- except us and our marvellous computers?

And who are ourselves, in our supreme intelligences, to declare that  such 
an organization is relevant, and that other, whose ideas we do approve, is 
not?

For instance, the Vatican is irrelevant, because we  do not approve of the 
ideas of the Pope.  Or would it be more realistic to say that the Vatican is 
relevant, because its mistakes are relevant?  As so are nuclear weapons and 
politicians?

Now, let's think of reciprocity in the theosophical movement.

What about Adyar members declaring Pasadena TS irrelevant?

What about each little group and even each individual ("groups are 
unnecessary") declaring  others "irrelevant"?

So the ULT declares Pasadena TS irrelevant,  Pasadena TS declares other 
groups irrelevant, and thus we all live the principal of UNIVERSAL 
BROTHERHOOD... by dclaring each other "irrelevant"?

If this is it, I agree: we are all irrelevants -- our personalities, at 
least.

Yet at the same time  we can see that each leaf of grass (W. Whitman) has 
its own purpose in the Universe.

Each soul, including, perhaps, those  human monads associated with Adyar, 
Pasadena and the  E.T.S., Tacome TS, etc., are relevant, unique and 
significant  in a way.

Except our lower selves, who want to consider themselves extremely 
important, of course.

In time,  my wife and I have three dogs in our rural area house.

The dogs, whose "chief"  is white and respectable Mrs. Pitchula, are 
extremely relevant.

Yet each street dog abandoned in Brazilian cities is relevant too.


Best regards,  yours  and relevant, Carlos.





> From: Drpsionic@aol.com
> Reply-To: theos-talk@yahoogroups.com
> To: theos-talk@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: Re: Theos-World Adyar's irrelevancy
> Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2006 10:35:38 EST
>
>
> In a message dated 3/16/2006 7:35:32 AM Central Standard Time,
> timestar@timestar.org writes:
>
> The  internet by itself has done much to make Adyar irrelevant.  I'm
> more  interested in the terms of the Young Theosophists that I am in
> trying to  rescue the elder generation.  The older generation will
> disappear and  return to seek truth in new cultural terms.
>
>
>
>
> Well, as a rapidly aging theosophist, I agree.  When folks my age  joined 
> in
> the mid to late 70s we were the young'ns and we brought our particular
> strangeness with us.  Now we are the old folks and the world is much  
> different.
> When I joined the TS in 1978, there were only a few channels on  broadcast
> television, VCRs were just invented, cell phones did not exist,  computers 
> were
> either huge, slow and clunky or overgrown pocket calculators with  a few 
> graphics
> thrown in.
>
> There was no internet as we know it, nothing digital.  Communication  was
> slow and required paper and postage or the telephone.
>
> A portable video camera kit weighed 80 pounds and shot in black and  white.
>
> The world is much changed and the way people view their world has changed
> with it.  Like everyone before us was and everyone after us will be, we are
> products of our time and we see things through the lens of that time.  In  
> the
> rapidly becoming old days, groups and organizations were necessary because  
> the
> means of communication made them necessary.  That may no longer be the  
> case.
>
> Chuck the Heretic
>
>
> [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
>
>
>
>
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