MIT scientists have uncovered chemical traces of the original "proto Earth” remnants from before the cataclysmic impact that created our modern planet [The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is a private research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States] Researchers from MIT…
Deepa Padhi – India Author Deepa Padhi is international Vice-President of the Theosophical Society in Adyar, Chennai, India, and President of the Theosophical Order of Service (TOS), Odisha Region, India Embracing spiritual wholeness is both an ancient and modern state of mind. In Mabel Collins’s The Idyll of the White…
[note from the editor: Jon, a formidable friend and deep student sadly passed away, much too early, in July 2023] 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…
Next Step – 1 Tim Boyd - India, USA Tim Boyd accompanied by two beautiful young ladies (daughters of a friend of his) I would like to share a few thoughts about the Theosophical Society’s 150- year history, a history that has been momentous and challenging. Also, we are here to talk about the future and about the moment…
1. What’s your name, where are you from and how long have you been a member of the TS? My name is John Kern. My father became a member of TSA in the 1920s; I joined on my return from WW II `in 1946. My wife and I live in Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A.
Betty Bland 1. What’s your name, where are you from and how long have you been a member of the TS? My name is Betty Bland; I have been a member for over 41 years and have recently completed a nine year term as national president of the Theosophical Society in America. For retirement my husband David and…
Pekka Ervast’s talk at an esoteric meeting on April 6, 1931 [Compiled by Antti Savinainen] Dear friends! Madame Blavatsky founded the Esoteric Section, later renamed the Esoteric School, in 1888, after the Theosophical Society had generally lost its faith in the Masters. When the Society for Psychical Research…
Stoicism is considered to be a philosophy of grim endurance, of tolerating rather than transcending life’s agonies and adversities, and that is perhaps the reason why the Stoic sage, in Western culture, has never obtained the popularity of the Zen master, writes Larry Wallace. He says that stoicism is a philosophy…
FREE SPEECH, an inspirational reminder of what happened to Malala, clearly demonstrates how courageous she was, and still is. The power of one voice, an example for all of us, no matter where we are located on our blue planet. Stand up with courage, conviction and dignity. Malala Yousafzai, now 28 years old, is an education…
David M. Grossman – USA A point comes in our search for meaning in life where we are ready to take a next step. We know there is a higher side to things, that the “day to day” is the water flowing under the bridge, here today gone tomorrow. Traditionally people have sometimes turned to the…
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