The Future? of the
Adyar Theosophical Society
Keeping
the
International
Headquarters
at
Adyar
It may not be that
easy
By
Dave Marsland
Tim Boyd has made a public commitment on
Youtube to keeping the Adyar Theosophical Society Headquarters in Adyar, and he
probably intends to maintain a very firm commitment to this, if elected. He may
have made this statement as a pre-emptive strike against the groundswell of
opinion in his own section who either want to move the international
headquarters to Wheaton or to set up a breakaway Theosophical Society with its
headquarters in Wheaton, effectively splitting the Adyar Theosophical Society in
two.
It may be part of an underlying strategy
that the Indian section nominated Tim Boyd as part of a "keep the
headquarters in Adyar" deal, as a Westerner as president is thought more
likely to stave off the imminent disintegration of the Society. There is also
the apparent need to appoint a Westerner to impress the authorities that the
Adyar Theosophical society is an international body and deter them from
enforcing a compulsory land purchase order against the Adyar Estate. Despite
having been around for some years, news of this land purchase threat has only
leaked out since the announcement of the candidates.
Supposing that the Adyar Theosophical
Society survives this election as a unified body and that Tim Boyd is
president, installed in Adyar. It will soon become apparent to all that he has
no power to implement changes or any programme of reform without the approval
of the Adyar controllers. The "move the headquarters to Wheaton"
lobby will quickly gather momentum leading to a split with Adyar which will
create two rival Theosophical Societies both with American presidents. The
response of other sections will be to stick with Adyar or align with Wheaton,
with some sections splitting or going independent altogether.
The Adyar controllers are, of course,
only interested in maintaining their power base at Adyar and are unlikely to
have any preference for either presidential candidate, as long as he is
compliant in serving their interests. The members are steadily realising the
sort of set-up they are supporting with their dues.
They may soon have a choice of more than
one set-up.
Dave Marsland
Posted February 8th 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?
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
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
Send this
picture to your nearest General Council member
for an immediate
no-response.
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