Theos-Talk Archives (November 2006 Message tt00610)

Carlos,

This is an interesting subject, especially with the advent of  
electronic communication and the internet, where anyone can "be" 
anyone they like. There are even poets who write poetry under 
pseudonyms and become accepted in that guise (or multiple guises) by 
literary critics. We have instant "copying" ability, so that text, 
and images, can be circulated on a large scale, sometimes losing 
their original identification.

When we occultists consider the fact that electricity in its essence 
is none other than the creative fire of the Absolute, and apply that 
knowledge to consideration of this "information revolution," we can 
come up with some new perspective.

Perhaps the emphasis on copyright and ownership of ideas is an idea 
that belongs to a purely materialistic cycle. Perhaps actually all 
information belongs to everyone. After all, we all share the manasic 
plane, where the mental stream of humanity is readily available to 
anyone who knows how to access it. 

We could remember the Native Americans of this continent, who told 
the usurping Europeans that they were making a mistake, that nobody 
owns the land, that they are simply custodians of it and all that 
lives on it. 

It would be folly to suggest that the legal structure which protects 
property above all else be changed suddenly. That would produce 
chaos. But maybe we are witnessing a sea change that corresponds to 
the coming of the Age of Brother/Sisterhood. Maybe our consciousness 
of the essence of this change will help to lift humanity out of the 
morass of selfishness we currently wallow in, and help us to see some 
Light.

Adelasie



On 10 Nov 2006 at 9:24, carlosaveline wrote:

> 
> Friends,
> 
> A more complex side of the controversy about editorial policies is that, in fact, disciples and Mahatmas have such a magnetic unity among them that they do not care as we do about proper quotations, verbatim reproduction, etc.
> This is well-documented in theosophical history.
> They even have telepathy working among them all the time, so it would often be difficult to say "whose thought is it anyway". 
> 
> It has been a gradual process by which more and more editorial care as to the sources is required.   A practice with which I fully agree today, while not  ignoring what happens in more occult levels. 
> 
> In certain moment HPB wrote that William Judge was "a thirteen years disciple".  Between he and her, I guess there were no "copyright problems", as between HPB and Damodar, or HPB and Subba Row.  
> 
> Carlos. 
>