TI is not a Container, it's a network
Apr 12, 1996 03:22 PM
by Alan
In message <9604121519.AA19891@netra>, Robert Holmstrom
<rholmstrom@voyageur.ca> writes
>Everyone seems to be talking about TI as a "container", something that a
>member fits "inside of" or excludes the offended.
Everyone? Not me.
> I don't see it that way
>at all. Should not the TI be a source of Theosophical information, possibly
>Theosophical values, and maybe a provider of signposts on the way? In that
>way, it frees its members to search and to grow but does not "contain" them.
>Membership means only that one has accepted the requirements for membership
>but should not restrict anyone in any way. One should always be free to
>make one's own errors and to learn from them. One should be free to search
>any path one wishes, even CWL's if one has a hankering for mythopoeia.
That's right!
>
>It seems to me the point of the three objects is that one must become free
>to search and actually search. Beyond that there is no dogma to wrap
>oneself in. Why should a prospective member then want to be wrapped in the
>TI? The grand argument about what "freedom" is meant by the word "freedom"
>seems pointless to me. Let each member take whatever meaning s/he walks in
>with and fly with it. If it is "restrictive", said member will either drop
>out or break through the limits. That is up to the individual, not the TI,
>imho.
>
>Take care,
>
>==<<Bob Holmstrom>>== <rholmstrom@voyageur.ca>
>
Oh the joy of reading sense!
Alan :-)
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