Theos-Talk Archives (January 2009 Message tt00630)

A REPLY TO WARWICK KEYS' COMMENTS 



Warwick Keys the National President of the New Zealand Section of the TS gave his version of the recent Adyar General Council meeting. You can view it on the TSA website.. 

(click link) 
<http://theosophical.ning.com/forum/topics/the-2008-adyar-convention?id=2060685%3ATopic%3A9509&page=4#comments> 

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I OFFER A REPLY TO MR. KEYS..... 

REPLY TO WARWICK KEYS' COMMENTS. 


Warwick, the fact that change is needed to update the Society is not an issue of disagreement. I think that many members would support healthy and needed changes. 


The aspect of our dis-agreement is the METHOD by which a few sought to impose radical changes in the Society in a clandestine and urgent manner, without the knowledge or consensus of the membership. THAT IS the aspect of disagreement. 


Such radical changes that were proposed should have been presented to the membership for dialogue and discusion to arrive at some type of consensus. 


Members have a RIGHT to Know and voice their opinions about these matters which so radically change the operations of the Society. 


Did you have the consensus of the New Zealand Section on these proposals? 


Did Madame Kim-Diu have the consensus of the French Section? 


If so, very well. 


The membership of the American Section knew NOTHING about these proposals. 


NO consensus was solicited, and there was no dialogue. 


This all gives the appearance whether legitimate or not that there was secretive and clandestine collusion among you to
impliment a planned agenda. An agenda designed by whom? 


Whether or not you had the legal authority to do this is beside the point. The point IS that you had a MORAL responsibility to consult the membership and solicit a CONSENSUS of opinion about how the membership felt conserning such radical proposals. 


If You did this with your Section, very well, bravo to you. 


This was not done in the American Section. 


Many of us came to The Theosophihcal Society becaue we did NOT like being dictated to by supposed "Authorities." 


So by WHAT authority did the backers of the controversial proposals act? It wasn't by membership consensus. Who is assuming the authority to dictate and enforce unknown and clandestine proposals? Tell us please. 


There is an ethical and honorable way to go about proposing changes needed that was NOT adhered to in this situation. 


Whether legitimate or not, it does give the unsavory appearance of a political ploy. 


Fraternally; 

William Delahunt
Orlando, Forida, U.S.A.
Member of the TS since 1969 

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After the General Council Meeting 2008 
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