Some News and Articles more or less about Theosophy
westernmorningnews.co.uk
A bitter feud has erupted in Devon as members wrestle for control of a peaceful society dedicated to the study of religion, science and philosophy. The bizarre row has seen members of the Theosophical Society picket the Torbay headquarters after accusing the ruling committee of staging a “coup” by cancelling the annual general meeting.
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newindianexpress.com
The cacophony inside the Theosophical Society is of a different sort. Birdcalls of unusual kinds, the pattering of a squirrel and even a mongoose, the crackling of dry leaves and a bicycle whirring past.
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Håkan Blomqvist´s blog
As librarian and archivist one of my favourite movie series is The Librarian, starring Noah Wyle as the librarian Flynn Carsen.
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artmediaagency.com
She manages to assign her audience the task of interpreting and perceiving the world; to identify the elements that bind us together, alongside all the physical aspects that the world has to offer. She calls it Neo-theosophy. It’s an approach that simultaneously establishes a relationship between the physical and astral body.
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assamtribune.com
“The misguided and conflict-ridden human society could seek redemption from the prevailing frustration and confusion only by translating into action the great teachings of prophets of all religions and great teachers of mankind across the centuries.”
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huffingtonpost.com
In troubled times, when the world seems to be on fire, people think about God and the religion they were raised in -- a source of solace and hope matters more in a crisis.
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thedailybeast.com
Ever since Plato went on at some length about the lost civilization, amateur archeologists and assorted crackpots have never given up on the hunt.
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Financial Times
...often eccentric subcultures: vegetarianism, theosophy, bicycling, even the solemn ... Madame Blavatsky, the founder of theosophy; the women's rights activist
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Scoop.co
Writers Invited to Enter Mind Body Spirit Awards. Writers working in the mind, body and spirit genre have just over one month to go to enter their unpublished manuscript to the 2015 Ashton Wylie Charitable Trust Book Awards.The Award, now in its 12th year carries a $10,000 prize.
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prnewswire.com
She [Matilda Joslyn Gage] had a life-long desire for justice and equality for all and was connected to the ideas of Theosophy.
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straight.com
“This earth is nothing but movies to me,” said Paramahansa Yogananda in his best-selling Autobiography of a Yogi, calling life itself “nothing but shadows and light”. Film is a natural medium, then, to convey the famous teacher’s life. But Awake: The Life of Yogananda is a mixed blessing: an intriguing overview for those who know very little or a lot about the man and his message; frustratingly incomplete for everyone in between.
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yale.edu
The variety of miniature Scriabin wrote over his career is considerable. Taking cues from Chopin, Liszt, and Wagner, Scriabin extended and expanded the idiom of romantic piano music. The complexity and deep expressivity of Scriabin’s works can largely be attributed to the innovation and evolution of his aesthetics, fueled by his interests in synesthesia and theosophy…
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theguardian.com
She had a habit of doing things suddenly. In her early 20s, on the run from the Italian family she loathed, she attended a theosophy lecture in London and agreed next morning to marry the lecturer.She had a habit of doing things suddenly. In her early 20s, on the run from the Italian family she loathed, she attended a theosophy lecture in London and agreed next morning to marry the lecturer.
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Wall Street Journal
The “New Theology” offered a smorgasbord of social gospeling, vegetarianism, Eastern religions, yoga, Theosophy, sexual nonconformity, feminism, mysticism, spiritualism, alternative medicine and the “Simple Life” as preached by Leo Tolstoy.
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Economic and Political Weekly
Wang is unequivocal about tracing the roots of the current unrest in Tibet to a familiar foreign hand. The origins of Western support for Tibet, Wang argues, come from the Oriental fantasy of Tibet as Shangri La, buttressed by Theosophy’s fascination with Tibetan mysticism:..
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The Hindu
While still maintaining close ties to Banaras and education, Besant moved on — into politics and Theosophy. She helped start numerous schools or colleges in different parts of India.
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scroll.in
There were a number of commentaries written on the Yoga Sutras in the centuries after their composition, but by around the 13th century, the text fell into disuse. It was revived in the 19th century by the likes of Madame Blavatsky and Swami Vivekananda.
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Times of India
Locally called ganja, the herb was a luxury for royalty to relax while it was a lifeline for fakirs to fight hunger and pain. The Theosophist Vol.IV dated March 1883 records comments of H.P.Blavatsky on a Hindu ascetic, who arrived to live in Surat, "He does not receive alms but only accepts drugs like ganja and sooka. He does not require any food. Hundreds of thousands of pointed nails were fixed on the wooden shoes he wears and bench he sleeps on."
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And some critical, false or unjustified News and Articles (more or less) about Theosophy
News24.com
To my shame, in retrospect, I ended two of my articles with the TS catch phrase “There is no religion higher than the truth” and alluded to it in another. It sounded so virtuous, until I realised that firstly truth can be very relative and secondly the TS is as kooky as any other vanilla religious organisation, despite their deceptive motto.
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Jewish Daily Forward
Behind the facade of an exotic and futuristic Prague ghetto, Indian rather than Jewish ideas of redemption are expounded. The alleged Kabbalah that pervades the book suffers from an overdose of Madame Blavatsky’s turbid theosophy.”
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WND Education
Her mother, who was steeped in a form of New Age mysticism called Theosophy, finally conceded.“She finally got desperate enough and was willing to give up that horrible religion, which is like Hinduism, and go to church,” Dittman said.
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Birmingham Post
Where Rachmaninov was patrician and austere (though how glorious are his music’s results), Skryabin, embracing the cult of theosophy which held that knowledge of God could only be achieved through ecstasy, became obsessed with the sensual in music.
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breitbart.com
Allamah Tabatabai represents that central and intellectually dominating class of Shi’ite ulama who have combined interest in jurisprudence and Quranic commentary with philosophy, theosophy, and Sufism and who represent a more universal interpretation of the Shi’ite point of view. Within the class of the traditional ulama, ’Allamah Tabatabai possesses the distinction of being a master of both the esoteric sciences and at the same time he is an outstanding hakim or traditional Islamic philosopher (or more exactly, “theosopher”).
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The Observer
Similarly, Maureen Dowd manages to upset everyone. One week she is brilliantly perceptive and the next she is akin to a modern Madame Blavatsky, her thinking so twisted as to be downright mystical.
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irrawaddy.org
The Russian occultist Helena Blavatsky claimed to have lived in Tibet where she had met spiritual masters with whom she remained in contact through telepathy, visions, and dreams. All that, however, turned out to be bogus.
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