On November the 18th we were delighted to have Dorothy Bell, eminent Australian theosophist give us a presentation.
It was great that we all caught up with one another. Thanks for that and for all the help given toward making it run nice and smoothly.
I believe Dorothy enjoyed our Far North Friendliness and there was a lot of
feedback from many who said they thoroughly enjoyed her presentation.
Her main theme that she talked about was that to make Theosophy relevant and A LIVING POWER in our lives we need tools from the Wisdom teachings and from the insights of modern Education and Psychology to enable us to understand and work with the problems and issues of daily life. With that goal in mind this talk offered the following:
- Exploring the meaning of “the living power” of Theosophy or Ancient Wisdom - and the nature and causes of the implied deficit of ‘power’ in our human condition,
- How we can share some of the difficulties we have experienced in endeavouring to live the ‘Theosophical Life’,
- Ways we can action a new way of “seeing through the veils” as a way of understanding the psychology of ‘perception’ and the Ancient Wisdom as a window to the world, and
- Considering together the kind of support that might be provided by the TS to better assist people to grow the Ancient Wisdom as a living power in their lives.
Photo credit of Dorothy Bell: www.theosophical.org, Venue: Maureen Paterson