The friends of Mary – about speaking the truth

There is something magical about truth. I lied to my grandmother the other day. She had noted that her son’s girlfriend (let’s call her Mary) knew a lot of people where she was staying. My grandmother thought that was a bit odd. I told her we had arranged for Mary’s friends to take care of [...]

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The Seven Theosophical Principles: An Initial Experiential Grounding in Reflective Experience

This small essay is an initial attempt to bring to language the “lived, first-personal, experiential characteristics” of the 7 Theosophical principles of our being based on the idea that these are “subjective, introspectivley available features.” (1) One prerequisite for doing so is to resist the use of any metaphorical or explanatory concepts, which is the [...]

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Theosophical Pecha Kucha **POSTPONED**

**UPDATE** The event for tonight, Thursday October 2nd 2008, has been canceled.  Too many of the people I originally hoped to participate will be unavailable.  We will try again at next year’s Theosofest (9/12/09). That should be enough time to make to really prepare!  We’ll also have a much bigger audience.  Thanks to everyone for [...]

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Beyond Global Warming: Consciousness as the Ultimate Cause of Earth Changes

The following article is by a good friend of mine, Steve Larsen, and addresses the global warming phenomenon from a consciousness perspective that is quite Theosophical, if not, entirely so, and therefore is a great example of applying the truths of the Wisdom Tradition to current affairs. Govert

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The division between a Higher and a lower Self, an idea.

In a previous comment Chris asked about the theosophical model of the human constitution, which proposes the existence of a Higher and a lower self, and the statement by Krishnamurti that such a separation is “an idea, not a fact”. In this kind of subjects, the focus of Krishnamurti and Theosophy differs—but only the focus, [...]

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Betsy’s Guts

Caterpillars are cute. Typically, a creature with that many legs tends more to the creepy. Perhaps it is its furr(zz)iness that provokes ‘awws’ rather than ‘ewws’ and rescue rather than squashing, but equally compelling may be our our optimistic identification with this earth bound crawler’s destiny with the sky, its inevitable transformation into a higher [...]

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Are you being served?

I’m an unrepentant intellectual. I smile conspiratorially when I hear people critique Joseph Campbell for his claim that ‘underlining passages in books’ was his spiritual practice, and there are few things that inspire me like a well-phrased idea, polemics as play. I felt the prickly parts of me bristle yesterday when Juliana Cesano told Govert [...]

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Saturn symbolized in the Baghavad Gita and Buddhist wheel of life tankas?

A bit ago I joined a yahoo group for astrology out of India/Bangladesh. For the most part this forum is dedicated to persons writing in and asking for advice to deal with life situations. Much of it is devoted to Saturn, generally addressing Saturn by the name Shani or Lord Shani. Occasionally other names are [...]

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