Ignore the Voters
and Get Elected
An overview of the
Adyar Theosophical Society
Presidential Election
System
There's an election in your area and
someone knocks on your door, introduces him or herself as a prospective
candidate and goes on to say that they won't reveal their policies, won't
discuss issues and won't answer any questions. They explain that they can’t be
contacted and finish off by asking you to vote for them. Assuming this is not a
wind up and the candidate is real then they would be quickly on their way with
more than a little encouragement not to show their face round here again.
Theosophists
are nice people so the dialogue has been toned down
Of course a scenario such as this could
never happen under normal circumstances except under a totalitarian regime
which allows only an appearance of democracy as a public relations exercise.
Most people will not recognise this scenario from personal experience and
dismiss it as a comedy sketch or an anecdote from Albania under the
dictatorship of Enver Hoxha.
Please let me know if
I’m being unfair to Enver Hoxha
One group however, who will instantly recognise
this scenario are the paid up members of the Adyar Theosophical Society. All
the restrictions described regarding policies, discussion of issues and
answering questions apply to their election for a new international president.
No doubt there have been candidates in various elections that have been elected
despite ignoring the voters, but in the Adyar Theosophical Society Presidential
Elections, ignoring the voters is part of the procedure. This unusual procedure
reflects the low regard with which the Theosophical Society leadership holds
the members. In fact the members are lucky to get an election after the ruling
elite nearly deprived them of the right to vote for their leader a few years
ago.
What a great system and such a good way
to ensure that only a candidate acceptable to the ruling elite will ultimately
be appointed as the international president and that uncomfortable issues will
not be raised. It is difficult to see how the results from such an electoral
system can be regarded as valid. Not surprisingly, there is another voting
option which an increasing number of members are taking and that is to vote
with their feet, and leave the Society altogether. The leadership don't mind
this as it is preferable to dissent in the ranks and makes for a quiet life.
What the leadership will do when there are eventually no members left to
conduct an election is a highly speculative area.
Dave Marsland
Posted February 1st 2014
Theosophical Society Issues
The Tekels Park
Family Eviction
A family has been evicted from their home at Tekels Park
because
a Tekels Park Estate Limited director wanted to live in
their house.
The Adyar Theosophical Society
Will there
be an Adyar Free Future?
Membership Decline – The Elephant in the Room
Adyar’s
Slightly International Convention
An Extra Box on the Ballot Paper
Suggestion for the 2014 Adyar Theosophical Society
International Presidential Election
Radha Burnier Employment
Services
Is
the 2014 Adyar Presidential Election Invalid?
Radha Burnier Employment Services
Radha Burnier’s
policy of allocating jobs to members of her own
family turned the
Adyar Headquarters into the family firm.
How many suitable
applicants were discounted so that
Radha Burnier could give a job to a family member?
Despite decades of decline and stagnation leading the
Adyar Theosophical Society to the verge of evaporation
or disintegration, the leadership have so far shown no
sign of coming up with a strategy for ensuring the
continuation of the Society as a unified body.
Adyar,
the Sole Purpose of Adyar
Revealing that the Adyar elite’s stately home is under
threat
of compulsory land purchase and can be saved by convincing
the
authorities that it is in fact an international
headquarters (if true)
may have given the Theosophical Society members a
brilliant
opportunity to get Adyar off their backs.
If not true then it looks like
blackmail
An overview of
the Adyar Theosophical Society
Expecting members
to vote for candidates while withholding
highly relevant
information indicates an utter contempt by
the leadership for the general membership
Here is a link to a short film of the
Tekels Park Deer
posted by a Camberley resident.
Everyone opposed to the killing of
the Tekels Park animals
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Fkfw8amMps
International Election Protocol
This is only an
idea for consideration but if the Theosophical elite
continue to treat
the members with the current levels of indifference and
contempt for the
duration of this election then the Adyar Theosophical
Society will be an empty shell by the time it is completed.
The secrecy with
which the Adyar Theosophical Society
leadership
conducts the Society’s affairs is legendary.
Is this secrecy
for its own sake or are some serious
issues being suppressed and kept beyond discussion?
Banging the Drum for Theosophy
Looking forward to the post Adyar era
Family control of Adyar has reduced the members
of the General Council to the status of town hall officials.
Silence by elected management cheats
the members out of participating in
the
running of their own organisation
Keeping the International Headquarters at
Adyar
The Adyar
Theosophical Society ruling elite denies
members the right
to be consulted on issues and the
ability to convey
their views directly to the leadership.
Why does the
leadership of an organisation
treat its members like this in the modern era?
Towards a New Model for Theosophy
The Adyar
Theosophical Society Leadership
now isolates
itself within a cult of superiority
while the Society
evaporates around it.
A Theosophical
Society can survive but not
Is this what is
on offer to the Adyar Theosophical
Society's paying
members from a ruling elite
that has a
different agenda from that of the Society?
This election is
really inconvenient for the
leadership, isn’t it?
Why are the
members being hustled into blind
voting?
What are the
leadership’s post-election plans?
An inter-regnum in
the presidency, during which
matters are
discussed, is the only course of action
with a chance of
saving the Adyar Theosophical
Are there plans
to sell Adyar without
A leadership
shutdown combined with a total
news blackout
suggests a serious hidden issue
and an intense
fear of revealing it.
Is the self
imposed isolation of the General Council effectively
a mass resignation
as they have found, after the death of
Radha Burnier, that establishing control of Adyar is too difficult?
Silence is Killing
the Adyar Theosophical Society.
The presidential
candidates are as much victims of the
General Council’s
silence rule as are the members.
The silence rule
also seeks to establish General Council
control over the future president.
Have the Esoteric
Section and the
General Council
merged into one body?
for the Adyar Theosophical Society?
CVK Maithreya
presented plans for the future, in
defiance of
General Council instructions.
Does suppression
of discussion mean that the
Adyar Theosophical Society doesn’t have a future?
Accountable Leadership Urgently Required
The General
Council has abused its power
by putting itself
beyond accountability.
A new leadership is needed, and fast.
Do the members
still have a Society?
Those who have
kept the Society time warped
in the 1930s now
have the task of introducing
reform and they obviously don’t want to do it.
Left sitting out
in the cold and starved of information,
members now
realise how the General Council regards them
Why not include
this picture in any information request to General Council
officers as an
indication of how members feel they are being treated.
Or just send the
picture anyway.
The Adyar
Theosophical Society is decades
out of date and
desperately in need of reform
starting with
getting rid of a leadership that
refuses to be accountable to the members.
The Royal Court of Radha Burnier
General Council Meeting 2013 Minutes
Making it a bit obvious aren’t you?
The Australian
Section made a formal complaint to
Radha Burnier
about her victimisation of the Australian
General Secretary at the 2011 General Council meeting.
Disgraceful Treatment of an Adyar Employee
A woman sacked
and evicted for complaining.
Given 13 days to get out of her home.
About General Council Meetings
Looks like there
has been some attempt
by a General
Council member to promote
reform within the
Theosophical Society
Make Your Wife
The Chairperson
Is Adyar Still The Headquarters?
to recover Adyar
for the members?
Good Campaign Pitch, Mr Singhal
Adyar Prepares for the Break-Up
Another Family Power Appointment
Don’t expect the
General Council
to do anything if the election is bent
An appraisal of
the General Council’s commitment
to maintaining
the Adyar Theosophical Society
Nobody sees it,
Nobody hears from it
Is it hiding somewhere?
Does it exist?
Even if the
presidential election is correct and above board,
the confidence in
the General Council has fallen so low
that members won’t believe it.
Haven’t members been
cheated for long enough?
Preethi Muthiah has
highlighted an endemic problem at Adyar,
which the General
Council has ignored for many years.
There are still
no plans implement a grievance procedure and
Anti-bullying policy at Adyar.
Of lady over 70 from her job at Adyar
What the paying
members want has little to do with
this election, as
the silence and lack of information show.
The real purpose
of this election is for the General Council
to deliver the
candidate that the Adyar ruling elite wants.
What Makes this Election Invalid?
Was your vote
forwarded to Adyar?
Was the election
actually held?
Against a
background of silence, a court case and
allegations of irregularities, these are fair questions.
Well, it’s much
easier than being a real president
Democracy in the Adyar Theosophical Society
Well, what can
you expect in an organisation where
the leadership
regards the membership as ballast
Doubts about the
integrity of the election
are left unresolved, rendering the result invalid.
The Ballast now know their true status
While the President Creeps into Office
By the Adyar
Theosophical Society ruling elite.
No hurry to prove
the election result
But a real hurry to get the president installed
The Adyar
Theosophical Society has become
a multi-level
marketing operation
Doubts about the
election result will
make the
President’s job impossible.
President uses
White Lotus Day
What was the
inauguration for?
That’s the clear message
from the
International
President to the members.
Questions now
arise over allocation of Wheaton
resources by a two job president
The General
Council was confronted with considerable
evidence that the
election was bent but just stood there
What right did the General Council have
to give away
control of the Adyar Theosophical Society?
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