Meetings Programme

MEETINGS PROGRAM – MELBOURNE June to December 2007 • Meetings all held at the Theosophical Society (Pasadena) Centre, 664 Glenhuntly Rd., South Caulfield, on Saturdays commencing at 2.30pm. The Centre is open by 2pm the day of the meeting. • Everyone interested is welcome. Come in and have a look around the Bookshop and Library. • Refreshments served after the lecture. Have the chance to speak personally with the lecturers. • No charge.
June 2	Spiritual Hierarchies – Charles Reitther
July 7	GLOBAL WARMING: a showing of the DVD of Al Gore’s film, ‘An Inconvenient Truth’ with discussion
August 4	TOUGH LOVE: ANOTHER FACE OF COMPASSION – Paul Rooke
September 1	PRAYER: WHAT IS IT? - Andrew Rooke
September 22	MAN, KNOW THYSELF! – Amanda Rooke
October 6	THE TINDER BOX OF STRONG EMOTIONS: PERSONAL SUFFERING AND ANGER – Stefan Carey
November 3	ANCIENT EGYPTIAN RELIGION – Jennifer Pignataro
December 1	MULTI-FAITH FORUM ON ‘LOVE THY NEIGHBOUR AS THYSELF’ – Representatives of the Buddhist, Hindu, and Christian religions speaking on Universal Brotherhood, chaired by Tony Downey

Also at the Theosophical Society (Pasadena) Centre: a series of lectures on BASIC CONCEPTS OF THE ANCIENT WISDOM/THEOSOPHY on Wednesday mornings from July 4th onwards sponsored by the University of the Third Age and led by Tony Downey. Subjects include: Overview of Theosophy, Karma, Reincarnation, Seven Principles of Man, After Death-What?, The Astral Light/Psychic Powers/Dreams, Evolution/Rounds and Races, Hierarchies, Theosophy and Christianity with plenty of opportunities for discussion to put your view on these subjects. Please contact Tony on 9528.1011 if you are interested.

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Consider the manifold consequences of our cooperation with one another. The stores are open; the buses are running; people show up for work; children are dropped off at school, educated, and picked up again; most people are fed, clothed, and housed, and those who can't do these things for themselves often receive help. Toddlers, sick people, and the senile elderly are not left to roam the streets unattended; their relatives, friends, or institutions care for them. Cooperation is the norm, an art form so commonplace and so expected that we are no longer even aware of it. We institutionalize our tending in professions such as nursing, teaching, child care and elder care. We institutionalize our aggressive and protective side as well, in military and civilian protective services, for example. But on the whole, daily life is largely devoted to the cooperative exchange of goods and services that help us to achieve a better life. The most marked characteristics of human daily life are caring and cooperation, not the unbridled selfishness that many describe as "human nature."
-- Shelley E. Taylor

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Meetings Programme