The Society

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

My name is Sara Ortega van Vloten, I am from Barcelona (Spain) and I became a member of the TS in 2008.

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

My name is John Powers, and I currently live in Norfolk, VA, being originally from Santa Barbara, CA. I am not a member of the TS, but I read the TS communications and journal regularly and take part in the yearly world-wide convention.

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

My name is Miriam Martínez Suárez, and I’ve been a member of TS Spain since 2016.

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

Esther Pockrandt, Australia, Queensland, Sunshine Coast Lodge, meeting in Buderim.  A member since 2007.

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

My name is Seth Edwards, I’m from the USA, and I’ve been a member of the Theosophical Society since 2013.

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

My name is Elena Bessie Camplone, I come from Pescara, a charming town on the Adriatic coast in Abruzzo, a beautiful Italian region. In my city unfortunately there are no theosophical groups, so in 2014 I joined the TS as an independent member, remaining in the occult mode for five years. I read magazines and books but I didn't know anyone. In 2019 I finally started to actively participate, also thanks to the general increase in digital media that we have seen in recent years.

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

My name is Swathi and I am from India. I have been associated with Theosophy since my early childhood,.

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

My name is Juliet A.M. Bates. This time round I was born in England and emigrated to Australia around four, with later years spent living in Italy, Abu Dhabi and Singapore, sprinkled with trips around the world and, later on, home visits to my mother in England. I became a member in 2010, though active in study groups, and theosophical work for decades.

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

My name is Arturo Alonso Carmona Peláez, I am from Medellín, Antioquia department, the Republic of Colombia, South America

Jan Nicolaas Kind – Brazil

The series ALAS AND AFTER has come to an end, but at the same time this “end” implies a new beginning. The dialogue among Theosophists from all four corners of the globe, no matter their affiliation, or independent and all other genuine seekers will continue and expand even without any preconditions or self-imposed rules, since the search for Truth cannot be hindered nor defeated by plain stubbornness, prejudice and ignorance.

About International Theosophy Conferences, all what had to be said was said, all what had to be written was written, and now it’s up to each and everyone’s discernment to come to conclusions; as a dear friend of mine often says: “IT IS WHAT IT IS.”

Questions and Answers with Kenneth Small.

[Note from the editor: Kenneth Small is to be considered a reliable and unbiased source. For many years he and both his parents, Carmen and Emmett Small, were involved with Point Loma Publications and through this interview we come to know firsthand facts. For earnest students it is interesting to observe that Kenneth sheds a rather different light on Gottfried de Purucker as a person and his work. In 2007 he sent an invitation to the leader of the TS Point Loma-Blavatskyhouse group and his wife to attend the ITC conference in Petaluma, California and introduced them to those who, at the time, were involved with organizing the annual ITC meetings in the USA]  

 Kenneth Small

1. Who are you and what was, or still is your involvement with the Theosophical Movement?

 My name is Kenneth Small and I live in California. Growing up in a Point Loma theosophical family, from the exile esoteric group, I was mentored in theosophy from a young age by lifelong students of Theosophy and their inclusive universal view has always inspired me throughout my life. I am in accord with Blavatsky’s view that the Theosophical Movement is a global one and much vaster than the organized theosophical organizations or groups. Blavatsky says, quoting Vaughn:

“A Theosophist,” he says-- “is one who gives you a theory of God or the works of God, which has not revelation, but an inspiration of his own for its basis." In this view every great thinker and philosopher, especially every founder of a new religion, school of philosophy, or sect, is necessarily a Theosophist. Hence, Theosophy and Theosophists have existed ever since the first glimmering of nascent thought made man seek instinctively for the means of expressing his own independent opinions.”[i]

Eugene Jennings – USA

Gene in his homeoffice ... 

Having been one of several individuals active in and with the efforts of International Theosophy Conferences (ITC) since its incipient days, after Willie Dade’s passing, I have seen its emergence and evolution from the beginning. From participant point of view to vice-president, to president, whatever it has accomplished, whatever it has become, for better or worse, I feel and bear, a direct connection and partial responsibility. Even more so do I bear responsibility for how it has become shaped, and the direction it has taken, over the last few years, until my resignation on January 4^th, 2021. For the record: a resignation related to the realization that there is a proper "time, season and karmic reason" for all things. At the same time, while in good health, I recognized the need to fit myself for other necessary duties that had arisen in life.