The Future? of the
Adyar Theosophical Society
Don’t Just Do Nothing
Stand There
By
Dave Marsland
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.
Theosophy Arise Adyar
Demise
Come on you leaders
and stop the decline
Or will you just sit
there and say things are fine?
Adyar Headquarters is
now a spent force
While national
sections consider divorce
Society members are
now hard to find
And Adyar will soon be
to history consigned
Have you an answer to
this state of affairs?
Or are you on the
Titanic, rearranging the chairs?
With the president
proudly wearing the crown
Until the news comes
that Adyar's gone down
There are few left to
mourn and few will shed tears
Most of us know it's
been coming for years
So what of the future
when Adyar's no more
Local initiative will
pull Theosophy up off the floor
Members' energy
directed to a group that they own
No ruling elite
surrounding a throne
A chance for Theosophy
to make massive gains
In a Theosophical
movement free of its chains
The two presidential candidates have two
options. The first is that they can do something to stop the Adyar Theosophical
Society becoming extinct and the second is to stand there with the rest of the
Theosophical elite while the Society disintegrates under them.
If they have strategies for saving the
Society as a unified body then the members certainly did not hear anything
about them during Radha Burnier’s 33 years of presiding over decline. So
standing there and doing nothing about decline appears to be the order of the
day and it is optimistic to think that this will change.
There are of course a shedload of other
problems to be dealt with in the Adyar Theosophical Society but if the Society
ceases to exist either through break-up or lack of members, then these won’t
really matter.
But it’s not all doom and gloom. Adyar
may be reformed but if it isn’t and the Society breaks up then a new
re-energised Theosophical Movement, relieved of the millstone of Adyar round
its neck, will take Theosophy forward in new and innovative ways. The removal
of Theosophy from the control of the Adyar international elite, who have held
it in a straight jacket of exclusivity for the last 80 years, will allow local
groups to make Theosophy accessible to a wider and more diverse audience than
ever before.
Dave Marsland
Posted January 26th 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?
Adyar’s
Slightly International Convention
Membership Decline – The
Elephant in the Room
Adyar Theosophical Society Members
An Extra Box on the Ballot Paper
Suggestion for the 2014 Adyar Theosophical Society
International Presidential Election
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?
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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