Theos-Talk Archives (April 2009 Message tt00422)

Hi all,

MKR - did you miss the wink I'd put in there ;) ? But seriously, I do think you have place of informal leadership here on theos-talk at least. And I've personally learned a lot from you. 

My name does seem to be mentioned a lot in regard to leadership roles - but there is a very good practical reason why it's not my time: I can't afford to put my life on hold for full time volunteer work right now, nor in the foreseeable future. There is a very practical reason why our leaders are mostly retired: how else can they do the work? Unless there's a working partner of course with a very good income. 

As for Betty - I think it's pretty clear to most observers that she's made some serious mistakes. 

I don't think though that a formal investigation would help. Individual sections just need to get on with the work of getting in touch with the world of spirituality & responding to the main challenges of our time. And to some extent they are doing so. The TSA has founded an active online forum & had great brainstorm sessions apparently at Krotona. The next step of course is to put all that into action locally as well as online. 

Activities have to be rethought very seriously - how can a balance be found between serious theosophical lectures and programs that fit the general spiritually interested public we'd also like to attract? What themes are we not addressing at all, despite the fact that they belong to the central topics theosophists study and think about? And so on. 

En Martin: dat liedje hoor ik al mijn hele leven :)

Katinka 
http://www.allconsidering.com/
http://www.katinkahesselink.net/
http://www.overpeinzende.nl/


--- In theos-talk@yahoogroups.com, Martin <Mvandertak@...> wrote:
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> I agree, Katinka for president!
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>  ( Kleine kokette Katinka
> Kijk nou eens een keertje om
> Stiekempjes over je schouder
> Je ma ziet het toch niet dus kom
> Kleine kokette Katinka
> Ben je verlegen misschien
> We willen zo graag nog heel even
> Een glimp van je wipneusje zien )
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> --- On Mon, 4/27/09, MKR <mkr777@...> wrote:
> From: MKR <mkr777@...>
> Subject: Re: Theos-World Re: ??? MORAL LEADERSHIP ??? online communication
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