The Future? of the
Adyar Theosophical Society
Adyar?
Haven’t members been
cheated for long enough?
Adyar is now a self
perpetuating body in its own right
beyond the control of
the Theosophical Society members,
and the fiefdom of a
small power elite.
Adyar only benefits a
few, yet members are still expected
to pay for something
which brings them no return.
By
Dave Marsland
What pantomime are sections funding by
supporting Adyar? A headquarters which brings no benefit to members and over
which members have no control. Headquarters run by a ruling elite who provide
jobs for their family members, presided over by a grandee who regards the
membership as “BALLAST”,
a comment which some have interpreted as caste based. Adyar staff members are
bullied, belittled, abused, dismissed and evicted with no recourse. A governing
body which is supposed to be in charge of Adyar but has relinquished control to
a local aristocracy, and now keeps the members in the dark about everything.
Two presidential candidates who show great talent for doing what the General
Council tells them to do. An election is being held amid allegations of voting
irregularities and the leadership fails to make enquiries or take any action at
all.
Profile of Adyar from a Victim
It's a sorry list of failure and
controversy, and what would be your reaction if someone rattled a tin at you in
the street, collecting for such an outfit? "You must be joking" is
the politest response I can think of. You certainly wouldn't put any money in the
tin and you would probably warn your friends not to do so.
Should anyone send any money to support
Adyar and keep it going, or is it time to withdraw funding?
Members can begin by insisting that
given the obvious loss of control of Adyar by members, combined with the
current policy of withholding information, by the General Council on all
Society affairs, money should not be sent from national sections to Adyar. A
further sanction could be made of refusing to forward remittances to the
national section leaderships if the national leaders remain determined to
support Adyar. A move such as this may reveal that true General Council
loyalties are to the Adyar ruling elite, and not to the members they represent.
General Council members could be reminded that by maintaining silence, they are
not representing the members who elected them. Also, by not taking effective
measures to deal with matters at Adyar and the serious election concerns, the
General Council is demonstrating that it is not the governing body, and power
over the Society has been assumed by vested interests.
One thing to watch out for is any
possible deal that has already been struck, which will involve the diversion of
financial resources from sections to Adyar. It is clear that the Adyar ruling
elite see the primary purpose of the members aka “BALLAST”
as being to support the Adyar headquarters, and thus maintain the power base of
the elite. As with the 2008 attempt to cheat the members out of their voting
rights, any Adyar financing deal is likely to be kept secret, and this secrecy
would probably be maintained even after it goes into operation. It would be
appropriate for members to demand precise figures, on a repeat basis, for the
amount of members’ money being allocated to Adyar.
There is already support amongst members
for keeping money at home, and Adyar should now be asked to make a case for
funding. The Adyar controllers are soon likely to find that funding for their
power base is no longer automatic.
Dave Marsland
Posted April 12th 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?
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.
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 General
Council was confronted with considerable
evidence that the
election was bent but just stood there
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