Theos-Talk Archives (April 2004 Message tt00099)

Paul wrote, partly: <<Maybe someone 
should start a Multiperspectivalist 
Society and get back to the original 
spirit of what HPB was trying to do.
Cheers,Paul<<

I've been a member of the Toronto TS for 
some years, and I don't know about other 
TS's, but I don't see how this one could 
be any more 
multiperspectivalistisisistic than it 
already is, seeing as they seem to be 
not only studying, but praising, 
apparently, writings, writers, people 
that have been getting many critical 
comments on these lists. They have had 
special sessions just for such praisings 
and thanksgivings. I'm tending to 
refrain from naming names of such 
authors on the grounds that that might 
be, in a sense, somewhat too multi of me 
to do, here, in this context, maybe. 
While there may be perfectly good enough 
reasons why lots of people of all kinds 
might be praised and studied (after all, 
if "all kinds" of people are real 
enough, to begin with, well then, 
obviously enough ...)... In my case, eg, 
I have read/studied authors that, I 
suspect, lots of people might consider 
crazy, dipsy, flapdoodly, delusional, 
among other things, "basically," in some 
sense ...

Still, I'm tending to wonder if there 
might be some kind of "relevant-enough 
but" that might be worth considering in 
the context of multiness in Theosophy, 
generally speaking (if not always "more 
particularly speaking," so much, maybe, 
in some cases/scenarios ...) ... While 
"broader" perspectives in general might 
be seen to be a good thing, wouln't the 
nature of the "broadness" have something 
to do with the nature of the goodness or 
relativity of such broadnesses ... Not 
that broadnesses in general might not 
tend to get manipulated in so many ways, 
but ...

So maybe you should try out the Toronto 
TS, Paul, if you want more multi. While 
that TS seems a little too multi for my 
taste, I've been giving them $15 a year 
so can borrow books from their library.
Not that the people there aren't "nice," 
and all like that (and I have attented a 
number of their meetings), but/"but"... 
In other words, I think I'm trying to 
say that, while there may be forms of 
multiness in Theosophic societies that 
might be seen to promote some kind of 
progress, seems to me that one might 
ALSO want to consider whether there 
might be forms of multiness that might 
have the effect of tending to dilute and 
erase the Theosophical Movement as such, 
possibly tending to replace it with 
whatever such multiness might promote, 
whatever that might be per whoever ...

Cheers,
Mauri