Theos-Talk Archives (December 1996 Message tl00368)

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>JHE
>If your view expresses anything near a consensus of opinion on
>theos-l, this board has the potential of becoming a significant
>balance to the Wheaton oligarchy.  I hope it is.
>
>I would like to add that the censorship within the Adyar

Keith:  I vow to keep out of this since I have been burned in the past, but
I would like to say that I think the motives behind the TSA oligarchy are
"conservative" in the sinces that they want to preserve the best from the
past and encourage the most level-headed and scholoarly in the present like
Ken Wilber and a few others.  They see their role as protecting the castle
from the barbarians, heretics, fruitcakes and triaists (whatever that
is)... if you get my drift.  They just want to have a nice tea party, keep
the dusty archives safe etc. for another 500 or so years and they will
probably do it.  I say good job!
Perhaps that is why other outlets like TI may eventually be a real force,
but in another direction of say uncovering the latent powers in humanity (
no sexism here!)

Namaste
Keith



>(Wheaton) TS goes further than controlling National elections and
>now Lodge assets.  The Organization's control over the
>publications that you mentioned also has a lot to do with what we
>*think* we know about the history of the TS and the ideas it
>promulgated.

I have no information on which to base a definite opinion about any
specifics of the "Wheaton oligarchy" except that I personally think very
highly of one of the ex-national officers who is a member of my lodge, but
I
do not see any necessary problem in their publishing some books and not
others.  They have to draw the line somewhere.  Should they publish "Mein
Kampf?"  Or does this imply a misunderstanding of the degree to which they
censor material which is clearly relevant to Theosophy?  Krishnamurti has
been a controversial subject within the TS, but we have hi<