Burnier
Town Hall
Family
control of Adyar has reduced the
members
of the General Council to the status
of
town hall officials.
By
Dave
Marsland
The General Council members have been
creeping to Radha Burnier and her family for so long that they now can no
longer function as an effective governing body. Radha and her family ran
everything with the General Council really meeting in Adyar only to be told
what had been decided and what they would be allowed to do. They are now in the
position of having to obey Radha’s family and terrified of having to account
for this to the general membership. The members of the General Council have
become so accustomed to doing what they are told that they would rather suffer
the hostility of members than deal with the situation.
The General Council had over 30 years to
stand up to Radha Burnier to regain control of Adyar and the Society for the
members, but failed to do so. The botched move to cheat the members out of
voting rights in 2008 was an attempt by one group in the leadership, who didn’t
think the members should have any rights, to replace the existing power group
in the leadership who also didn’t think the members should have any rights. A
campaign against family control which involved the members may have had some
chance of success instead of enabling the Adyar controllers to strengthen their
position, and diminishing the
credibility of the General Council. Nobody in the leadership wants to consider
the members, and power within the international Theosophical elite has only
ever been the consideration.
The General Council could involve the
members in the reforming the Adyar structure but refuse to do this, as it would
make them too accountable and threaten their privilege, and right to behave
like extras in a Miss Marple episode. The members have been cheated out of
their own organisation. We can expect another 30 years of family control but
this time even the International President will be as powerless and compliant
as the General Council. No wonder nobody wants to tell the members anything.
In relation to Adyar, the General
Council members have dropped to the same status as town hall officials but at
least a town hall official will tell you that he is just doing his job and he
has to obey his superiors. He may even refer you to contact his superiors in
case of query but can you imagine a General Council member or the International
President referring members to the Adyar controllers.
All that the General Council members
have left is the apparent prestige of being in a leadership role within an
international organisation. In their true role as functionaries they don’t
really function all that well. Just look at the way in which they fail to
communicate with the paying members whose interests they are supposed to
represent.
Dave Marsland
Posted February 6th 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
Membership Decline – The
Elephant in the Room
Will there
be an Adyar Free Future?
Adyar’s
Slightly International Convention
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?
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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