Theos-Talk Archives (November 2006 Message tt00644)

Adelasie, 

There is truth and altruism in what you said below, as far as I see it. 

The planet, the air we breathe and the universal wisdom ultimately have no private owners.

Every physical citizen is only a passing guest in the planet,   and a passing student of the divine wisdom, in his lower self, at least.    At the same time,  as you say, we have a social structure which works with the idea of private property, etc.

I wanted to make this point: disciples and Masters are able to share ideas, feelings, quotations, sentences and authorship of books. This complicates a little bit the discussion on editorial policies.

But still,  tampering is tampering. Disciples, lay disciples, aspirants to lay discipleship and honest or experienced Editors can "share ideas" while having respect for original texts  and authors. 

Regards,  Carlos 



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Data:Fri, 10 Nov 2006 07:11:57 -0800

Assunto:Re: Theos-World Disciples and Editing

> 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. 
> >
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