From The Krotonian, Fall-Winter 2024
Ananya Sri Ram (left) and Maria Parisen
Krotona School will have a new director in January 2025 with the retirement of Maria Parisen. Taking over will be Ananya Sri Ram, the school’s current assistant director who has been actively involved in the school's activities since 2021.
1. What’s your name, where are you from and how long have you been a member of the TS?
Jennifer Hay. I am from near Toronto, Ontario, Canada, and have been a member of the TS since 1986.
1. What’s your name, where are you from and how long have you been a member of the TS?
My name is Martine Archambault, I was born in Montreal in the province of Quebec in Canada and I currently reside in the Eastern Townships of Montreal. I have been a member of the TS for 22 years.
1. What’s your name, where are you from and how long have you been a member of the TS?
My name is James Lavoie. I am from Vancouver, Canada. I have been a member of the TS for 8 years.
1. What’s your name, where are you from and how long have you been a member of the TS?
Andrie Levey-Bates , North Vancouver, B.C. I joined the American Theosophical group over 22 years ago and the Canadian Association over 17 years ago.
1. What’s your name, where are you from and how long have you been a member of the TS?
Jeanne-Louise Dufresne Val-David, Québec Canada. I have been a theosophist since 1982.
1. What’s your name, where are you from and how long have you been a member of the TS?
My name is Josée Dorval, and I have been a member of Theosophy for 14 years.
1. What’s your name, where are you from and how long have you been a member of the TS?
My name is André LeBlanc, and I live in the city of Laval, near Montreal, where I was born. I have been a member of the Theosophical Society since 2012, but I have been studying Theosophy for about forty years.
1. What’s your name, where are you from and how long have you been a member of the TS?
Robert Béland, Val-David, from Québec, Canada. I have been a member since 1980.
Jan Nicolaas Kind -- Brazil
Once in a while there seems to surface an urge to “modify” the wording of our Three Objects. So, in order to determine if such a alteration makes any sense, let’s go over them:
These are the objects as officially adopted by the TS Adyar in 1896:
1. To form a nucleus of the Universal Brotherhood of Humanity, without distinction of race, creed, sex, caste or colour.
2. To encourage the study of comparative religion, philosophy and science.
3. To investigate unexplained laws of Nature and the powers latent in man.
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Dear Helma smiling, all in Orange, with her proud decoration
Helma Kuit, Michiel Haas’s wife, on April 27, was decorated by the Mayor of “Gooise Meren”, on behalf of Dutch King Willem Alexander. She became a member of the Order of Oranje Nassau.
[Note from the editor: In “Inner Experiences During the War and Flowers of Peace” you will find six personal and often touching accounts from our dear friends and fellow seekers in Ukraine. The short stories came to my desk in the English language. I decided to keep the editing to a minimum in order to stay as close as possible to what the writers tried to convey.]
Lavender: Mesmerizing lavender which is the ultimate peace flower. These flowers tend to bring peace and accord. The pretty flowers also symbolize serenity and strength along with ease. Lavender is a perfect flower for peace
My Inner Experience During the War
Svitlana Gavrylenko - Ukraine
My inner experience of the first day of the war was and still is very important to me. Early in the morning, I received a phone call that informed me about the beginning of the war. I was still asleep, and thus my consciousness was still on the border of two states, sleep and wakefulness. And this, as is known, gives the opportunity to communicate with one's own unconscious. Well, I was not surprised. Somewhere on the far periphery of consciousness, there were thoughts like: "Isn't this a dream? How can this be?", but the conscious dominant thoughts were such as: "This is a natural consequence of decades and centuries of deliberately inciting a certain atmosphere of enmity. It is an abscess that has ripened and must now burst through so that healing can take place through exacerbation."