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Mini-Interviews J. Dayanand

Details: Published: Friday, 13 March 2015 18:52

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1. What’s your name, where are you from and how long have you been a member of the TS?

My name is J. Dayanand and I am from Tamilnadu, India, at present living in Pondicherry. In my professional life, I am retired now, I was an expert on flora and fauna and recognized as such by the government of India. I studied reclamation of soil at Oxford University in the UK, and among many other activities I was Director of the Food Cooperation of India, in New Delhi. I am a Life Member of the TS-Adyar.

Editorial – Am I in the Wrong Movie?

Details: Published: Thursday, 04 December 2014 11:40

Am I in the Wrong Movie?

[… and some thoughts about internet trolls]

Jan Nicolaas Kind – Brazil

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“If we consider carefully the options put before us / So much wisdom so much love so much waiting for us / And if we look ahead there's the sun and the seasons / Another day another age of reason” – from John Farnham’s “Age of Reasons”

For this impressive song, click here

By the end of a year, I tend to turn somewhat sentimental.

Another twelve months went by, offering many opportunities; I realize that perhaps only a handful came to realization. Yes, we are told never to look at what one doesn’t have, but to cherish that what you have in your hands, so I want to make use of this opportunity to thank all those wonderful and hardworking volunteers who have been loyal to Theosophy Forward, making this unique publication possible. Thanks to all, spread out over the planet: The United States (California, Kentucky, and Wheaton-Illinois), Brazil, Costa Rica, Slovenia, Italy, Portugal (Madeira Island), Spain, France, Holland, and India.

When I started off way back in 2009 with this e-magazine, I had no idea where the story would take me. We are five years on the road now and soon the sixth year will commence and there are great plans, quite sensational I must say, but at this stage I cannot reveal more than just that it will be another Theosophical leap forward!

THOUGHTS TO REMEMBER

Details: Published: Thursday, 04 December 2014 10:14

[In November 2014, Theosophy Forward published a number of quotes by Radha Burnier on its homepage. These quotes were very well received. To facilitate our readers we hereby reprint them.]

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Mini-Interviews Renee Sell

Details: Published: Thursday, 04 December 2014 10:10

1. What’s your name, where are you from and how long have you been a member of the TS?

My name is Renee Sell, I live in New Zealand. I was originally brought up in Australia but have lived my adult life in New Zealand. I have been a member of the TS now for 17 years.

Mini-Interviews Robert Pullen

Details: Published: Thursday, 04 December 2014 10:09

1. What’s your name, where are you from and how long have you been a member of the TS?

My name is Robert Pullen. I am from Holland, the town of Breda, and I am not a member The Theosophical Society Adyar, Point Loma or Pasadena. I am the chairman of the Theosophical Centre “Post Nubila Lux” in Breda, Holland.

Mini-Interviews Ingrid Eberhard – Evans

Details: Published: Thursday, 04 December 2014 10:09

1. What’s your name, where are you from and how long have you been a member of the TS?

My name is Ingrid Eberhard – Evans, I joined the Theosophical Society 1984 in London and soon after moved to Wales transferring my membership to the Welsh Association.

Mini-Interviews Alice Bouwland

Details: Published: Thursday, 04 December 2014 10:08

1. What’s your name, where are you from and how long have you been a member of the TS?

Alice Bouwland is my name. I live in Zwolle, a beautiful mediaeval Hanze-town in the middle of Holland. I am working as an executive coach and trainer in communication skills at the architecture department of a university of applied sciences. In 1982 I became a member of the Theosophical Society.

Mini-Interviews Jon Knebel

Details: Published: Thursday, 04 December 2014 10:08

1. What’s your name, where are you from and how long have you been a member of the TS?

My label and my story? My name is Jon Knebel and I currently live in the western suburbs of Chicago. I have been a member of the TSA for maybe fifteen years.

Mini-Interviews Halldor Haraldsson

Details: Published: Thursday, 04 December 2014 10:07

1. What’s your name, where are you from and how long have you been a member of the TS?

Mr. Halldór Haraldsson, born in Reykjavik, Iceland in 1937. I have been a member of the TS since 1960.

Mini-Interviews Gloria Arévalo de Gauggel

Details: Published: Thursday, 04 December 2014 10:07

1. What’s your name, where are you from and how long have you been a member of the TS?

Gloria Arévalo de Gauggel, I am from Colombia, but I live in Honduras now for 17 years.

The Piano Revisited

Details: Published: Wednesday, 22 October 2014 04:51

Jan Nicolaas Kind – Brazil

[Editor’s note: This article was published in April 2009, during Theosophy Forward’s very first year on the Internet. Time flies, but it is available for all to read in TF’s archives. While I was going over some of the earlier issues of the magazine, this piece caught my attention again because of its relevance. I have rewritten some parts and updated it for a 2014 publication].

“To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.” — Marilyn vos Savant an American magazine columnist, author, lecturer, and playwright who rose to fame through her former listing in the Guinness Book of World Records under “Highest IQ.”

Playing the piano with three fingers.

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Editorial -TheosTalk and M. K. Ramadoss

Details: Published: Friday, 03 October 2014 15:03

Jan Nicolaas Kind – Brazil

The so-called moderator of the blog/website TheosTalk, once a wonderful source of information, now has gone fully over the top. Impartial participants on this site are no longer welcome as it seems, and the person who calls himself MKR, is primarily occupied with slandering and insulting the current administration in Adyar.

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Once upon a time, the website TheosTalk (TT, a service provided to the Theosophical community by Theosophy Network Inc., a tax exempt 501(c) 3 nonprofit corporation), founded in 2000 by Eldon Tucker, was an inspiring meeting place, a sort of global square where Theosophists and others would meet, respectfully exchanging a large range of views and ideas directly or indirectly related to Theosophy. In those early pioneering years, with the internet rapidly developing, TT fulfilled a unique spearhead function. Interesting vivid dialogues and debates would occur and frequently subscribers would hook up with the site, contributing and enthusiastically participating in all that went on there. Although never a participant myself on any social networking site, as that’s not my thing, it was fun and really fascinating to go there and read what others had to share.