The Future? of the
Adyar Theosophical Society
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.
By
Dave Marsland
Actually,
the General Council never says anything but if it did, very few would now
believe what it said.
A few traditional Adyar Theosophical
Society diehards are no doubt determined to convince themselves that the
current presidential election is all correct and above board, but beyond that,
many have no confidence in the ability of the General Council to deliver a fair
election, untainted by electoral irregularities. The fact that allegations have
been made is a clear indicator that the General Council has completely lost
control of the Society’s affairs and no longer functions as a governing body.
All power has now been ceded to vested interests within the Society, and this
transfer has taken place under the noses of the paralysed General Council. The
future president will be a product of the General Council which has reduced his
role to a powerless figurehead, and both presidential candidates have
compounded the problem by adhering to the General Council’s instructions on
remaining silent.
Many safeguards could have been put in
place to ensure the correctness of this election, and to ensure that it is seen
to be correct. The level of secrecy in itself has been enough to destroy
confidence even before the allegations of irregularities emerged. There is no
attempt to investigate the allegations or even restore confidence, and even as
the completed ballot papers come in, there is no independent audit and scrutiny
of the papers to expose any possible irregularities. It now appears that the
General Council would rather permit a bent election than face up to the
difficult task of running it properly. The emergence of allegations of election
irregularities is only one of the awkward issues that the General Council are
keeping quiet about, and many are worried about the number of issues that are
being suppressed.
Back in 2008, the General Council tried to
cheat the members out of the right to vote, and in 2014, it is cheating the
members out of a fair election by its silence and ineffectiveness. The primary
interest of the General Council is self serving preservation of status and
privilege against the power of the vested interests that it has allowed to take
over the Society. The situation regarding control of the Society is reaching an
end game in which the members will lose all control of the Society forever. The
self serving interests of the General Council could not be further from the
interests of the members that it is supposed to represent, and this is the main
reason that the members are told nothing.
As the members now have no control over
the Adyar Headquarters through their elected representatives, it is reasonable
for them to insist that no portion of membership remittances is sent beyond
individual sections. Keeping the money at home rather than throwing it blindly
into Adyar, with no benefit, certainly seems to have support in the American and
Australian sections. Even before this election period, support for Adyar was
dwindling amongst the membership, and information about family jobs at Adyar,
the bullying of staff, the reference to members as “BALLAST”,
and the dismissive treatment of General Council members by the Adyar
controllers, has made clear the extent
to which members are being ripped off.
The two presidential candidates were
hardly known to members at the start of the election period and have
successfully established themselves as cardboard figures with no leadership
credentials. Silence and compliance cannot be regarded as leadership traits and
the willingness of both candidates to keep silent can only indicate that they
were chosen as stooges. If the candidates are showing no leadership qualities
now, then it is hard to see either of them mutating into dynamic leaders after
election. In fact, members can now expect the opposite.
Members are now realising that there is
no point in supporting this scam and pressure on section leaders to keep
remittance money within the section is starting to build. The General Council
has lost control and is no longer capable of responding to events. It is now
only a matter of time before the Adyar Theosophical Society breaks up.
Dave Marsland
Posted April 11th 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?
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 General
Council was confronted with considerable
evidence that the
election was bent but just stood there
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