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I believe that the
centralised, hierarchical
Adyar Theosophical
Society structure
has now had its day and that Theosophy will
move forward as a loose alliance of independent
Theosophical groups
who run their own show.
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The Current
Situation
Two issues which
will be of concern to members and about
which the general membership has not yet been told
A legal challenge to the
conduct and result of the 2014 presidential election is currently being
pursued through the Indian courts. This will prove expensive and damaging. Some
long standing members have already been expelled from the Society for raising
concerns about the presidential election.
The International President has
failed to address the allegations of sexual abuse of
young girls within the Adyar Theosophical Society, either by initiating an
internal enquiry or by calling in the police. The leadership is sitting on a
time bomb which will ultimately destroy the Adyar Theosophical Society, and in
consequence some groups are already distancing themselves.
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The Adyar Theosophical Society
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.
Membership Decline – The Elephant
in the Room
Adyar Theosophical Society Members
Adyar’s Slightly International
Convention
Will there be an Adyar Free
Future?
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.
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 exclusion of
Mr Maithreya from the rushed
inauguration was an insult to him and his supporters
of
the Adyar Theosophical Society?
And if so, it’s a very ugly face
Is Wheaton Set To Support Adyar?
A two job
president will produce a massive conflict
of interest that will divide the American Section
Adyar Estate
General Manager reports former
Theosophical
Society Accountant to the police,
resulting in detention and two days of interrogation.
Former Accountant
makes serious allegations
against the Adyar Estate General Manager.
Did the 2014
Presidential Election take place in a
“If we hand over
the vehicle to the police things will be worse”
on getting himself inaugurated.
Serious
allegations about a reign of terror at Adyar
are lodged with the
International President.
There is no response, just silence.
Serious
allegations surround the treatment of staff and
Theosophical
Society members at Adyar, but members find
that the elected president is unable to do anything.
Allegations
against Adyar Estate General Manager,
Mr S Harihara Raghavan over staff
bullying
and threats of
imprisonment are not new.
Preethi Muthiah’s letters and articles
clearly
indicate that the issue
has been around for some years
As it stands only
56% of the poll and 49% of the final vote
can be verified by
section leaderships on the current information.
Tim Boyd
nominates only one candidate for
International
Vice-President and expects the
General Council members to vote for him.
As
many ask if it is safe to go to Adyar.
An idea for
serious consideration
The General
Council Should Allow
Tim Boyd's
failure to deal with serious allegations will
mean that the fear of
being banged up in police cells
will henceforth haunt
visitors to Adyar.
Yet another
source of information
regarding staff bullying at Adyar.
Amnesty
International is widely supported by members
and official policy
of an organisation that refuses
to investigate
allegations, that its own staff and members
are bullied by the
use of threats of imprisonment.
Did you know you were cordially invited to the
bargain basement president’s cut price inauguration?
With proper
safeguards this time
Indian General
Secretary tells the Indian
Section Council
that he is nominating
Tim Boyd – no
discussion – no consultation
With the
unresolved issues raised at that time,
the election clearly should not have gone ahead.
Tim Boyd
airbrushes his rushed inauguration from history.
Relating
to the conduct of the 2014 Presidential Election.
submitted to Chittaranjan Satapathy by South
African
General
Secretary, Jack Hartmann on March 16th 2014
It becomes clear
that the election committee had
valid evidence for misconduct but ignored it
Rubber Stamped by General Council
Krishnaphani Kesiraju calls on the governing
body
As the Adyar
Theosophical Society
governing body refuses to
govern.
Admit it General
Council, being the governing body of the
Adyar
Theosophical Society is too difficult for you.
True to form, one
month has elapsed and
the President and
General Council have failed to
investigate Mr M Kannan’s allegations of bullying.
The General
Council was confronted with considerable
evidence that the
election was bent but just stood there
This is the clear message as the International
President and General Council ignore
bullying allegations at Adyar.
General Council Ignores Calls to
The Presidential Election Result
and a leadership
unable to handle it
What right did the General Council
have to give away
control of the Adyar Theosophical Society?
The conduct of the 2014 Adyar Presidential Election
is now being investigated by the authorities.
News of an
enquiry by the Indian authorities makes
Tim Boyd and the
General Council look vulnerable.
The General
Council may decide that the easiest
way for it to
maintain its policy of silence on the
2014 Presidential
Election is to stay away from Adyar.
Just look at what the General Council has done for
The Adyar Theosophical Society in less than a year
No problem, the leadership will make sure that the
Theosophical Society members will pay for the defence.
Over 70 valued trees felled at the Adyar Estate
Is the delayed flimsy unsubstantiated explanation
now replacing the policy of silence?
How many trees were chopped down?
The felling of over 70
trees at the Adyar Estate
is reported in The Hindu in some detail
Prove the Adyar Cows are Still Alive
For the 2014
Adyar Crisis Meeting
The current civil
court action has split the Indian Society
This will be a costly affair. Who's going to pay?
Against a
background of ongoing legal processes,
General Council
members just don’t know what
they are walking into at Adyar
Written by Jan Nicolaas Kind, Salvador-Bahia, Brazil
to
open letter written by Jan Nicolaas Kind
Has the
Theosophical Society leadership advised
General Council
and other members of the risks
involved in attending the
2014 Adyar Convention
during the current investigation?
From the General Council on December 25th
A press report on the Presidential Election and resultant
court case, and expulsion has been published by the Times of India.
Go directly
to report
Theosophists meet in Chennai
amid legal row
Times of
That's how the Ballast is kept informed
The victimisation
of Kesiraju Krishna Phani
will probably
draw more attention
from the media and public
than the ongoing civil court case itself.
The Adyar Raj is rooted in the past and determined
to stay there as members refuse to pay, and walk away.
Isn't one hundred years enough?
Adyar Theosophical Society General
Council.
A selection of
documents relating to the court case
currently being brought in
the Madras High Court against the
Adyar
Theosophical Society by Kesiraju Krishna Phani
regarding the conduct of
the 2014 Presidential Election.
These documents
reveal the nature and extent of the allegations.
Further court
documents listing the evidence
to be presented
relating to the court case currently being
brought in the Madras
High Court against the
Adyar
Theosophical Society by Kesiraju Krishna Phani
regarding the conduct of the 2014 Presidential Election
Years of no money to pay the workers
turns into
a spending spree on the Adyar Raj governor’s residence
without a massive cash bailout
Is he unavailable for Adyar Day?
Adyar General Manager, Mr S Harihara
Raghavan’s
clear message to departmental heads
A shadow of a once great event at the
Adyar Theosophical Society Headquarters
Conspiracy theorists may never get to the bottom of this one
Aspirant young footballers cheated out of the opportunity to play.
When was a game last played on
the Olcott School pitch?
For aspirant
young footballers, a gap of three or four years
without playing is a big chunk out of their youth.
The Olcott School sports area
has been
barricaded and cordoned off by the police.
Tim Boyd enters the Adyar legal job creation scheme
A court case a day keeps the donors away
More court action as the Adyar Aristocracy moves
to evict the Krishnamurti (KFI) School from the Adyar Estate
Krishnamurti School children’s education under siege
Is the Adyar Aristocracy planning to become
the Aristocracy of somewhere else?
Why did the leadership refuse to act
on these serious abuse allegations?
No enquiry into serious abuse allegations.
A part time
management presided over by an absent President
More evidence
that the General Council has lost control of Adyar
Further
indication that Adyar is being wound down for closure
Tim Boyd needs to deal with the officials who have
suppressed the abuse allegations
Adyar
Theosophical Society into
At Stockport
County they play Spot the Crowd.
Has an invitation been sent out
Should the Adyar
Theosophical Society engage
in collaborative
events with other Theosophical organisations while
its allegations of sexual abuse of young girls remain unaddressed?
It looks like an International President is
surplus to requirements at Adyar
hired to defend the Adyar
Theosophical Society
against allegations that the 2014 Presidential Election was bent
Is Jan Nicolaas Kind expressing
the official
Adyar Theosophical Society view?
The Adyar Theosophical Society’s toxic brand with which
it
may now pollute the entire Theosophical Movement
As the 2015 ITC Conference at The Hague approaches
But no change of Groundsperson
Yes, it’s true, Tim Boyd has
actually been in Adyar.
Not to deal with
the sexual abuse allegations
but to sort out the
horrendously expensive mess
that his Adyar
Masters have caused.
Why is International President Tim Boyd
refusing to deal with this issue?
Regardless of the unaddressed allegations of sexual abuse
of
young girls within the Adyar Theosophical Society
Does Tim Boyd not actually realise that as International
President,
he is ultimately responsible for what happens to the Adyar
Theosophical Society as it tumbles out of control into the
abyss?
and the Adyar
Theosophical Society
will be destroyed
when it blows up
Does your group have contingency plans?
The Adyar
Theosophical Labour Camp
Treatment of
workers on the Adyar Estate has always been
notoriously poor but things
have clearly got much worse
since Tim Boyd took
over as International President
Oppressive
employment terms and conditions
at the Adyar
Theosophical Labour Camp
International President responds with Smilership not Leadership
The Chennai
(South) District Registrar will be asking some very awkward
questions relating to allegations against the Society and to
compliance
with the provisions of the Tamil Nadu Societies
Registration Act
Putting a stooge
in charge was a timely move by the Adyar Controllers
Under the Tamil Nadu Registration of
Societies Act
When the Boyds and Sundarams met in Varanasi
That’s the clear message Tim Boyd is sending out
by failing to
address the allegations of sexual abuse
of young girls in
the Adyar Theosophical Society.
Allegations of
sexual abuse of young girls by
an Adyar Theosophical Society Official
But despite the evidence, International President, Tim
Boyd
After his failure to make the journey to Kanpur
to investigate matters for himself, Tim Boyd now
emerges as the
abuser’s friend
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