The Future? of the
Adyar Theosophical Society
Concerns Raised
About
General Council
Meetings
Looks like there has
been some attempt
by a General Council
member to promote
reform within the
Theosophical Society
By
Dave Marsland
The minutes of the 2012 General Council
meeting were never made available to members. It seems from the issues, raised
by Navin B Shah of Kenya outlined in the draft letter below, that the meeting
was conducted in a way that contrived to block any possibility of reform or
even its discussion. It is clear from the number of issues that Mr Shah was
proposing for discussion that he has a wide ranging agenda for reform and this
is considered to be a threat by the Adyar controllers.
Navin B Shah isn’t the only General
Council member. Didn’t he have any support from the others? Have the majority
of the General Council decided that control of the Theosophical Society and the
Adyar Estate is no longer retrievable? The poor attendance mentioned by Mr Shah
suggests many have given up. Was Tim Boyd at the 2012 meeting and if so, did he
offer any support to Mr Shah?
The number of abstentions in the
election of Keshwar S Dastur as additional member of the General Council
suggests some strange underlying problem with the General Council’s ability to
function democratically. I notice that Mr Shah uses the term “declared” elected
as additional member. With nineteen out of thirty six members abstaining, this
sounds like an imposed decision by Radha Burnier on the General Council.
Dave Marsland
Posted March 16th 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
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.
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.
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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