The Challenge of Living in the World as a Theosophist

A videotape recording of a talk given by Helen Bee, Ph.D., author and developmental psychologist and a long-time theosophist who has served in various capacities in The Theosophical Society in America. She talks about theosophical ethics and shares with us her own experience on leading a life in accord with theosophical teachings. This interesting videotape runs for 43 mins.

Health and Disease in Man

The attainment and maintenance of perfect health is the intelligent person’s supreme material preoccupation. Health is the greatest physical necessity for every human being. Yet, despite the progress of modern science, the incidence of such diseases as leprosy, cancer, diabetes, hypertension and heart disease, and the mortality from them, tend to increase. More and larger hospitals, asylums and prisons are continually having to be built. How is this pressing problem, which now besets the whole human Race, to be solved? What are the fundamental laws governing health and well-being, and in what way is humanity so continually violating them that a perfectly and continually healthy individual is a rarity? How may health be defined? This talk looks at the cause of disease from both the medical and occult viewpoints and discusses the vital influence of mind and emotion in health and disease. The occult anatomy of man is considered, as are the roles played by the chakras, etheric double and prana in health and disease.

This talk by our Hon. Secretary, Sis. Lily Chong, will help us further understand the physical vehicle of man and the importance of perfect health for spiritual growth. Indeed, perfect health is a prerequisite for spiritual quest
 

Self-Culture—in the Light of the Ancient Wisdom

The fourth part of a book review by Bro. Choong Chi Pin of the book of the same title by a prominent theosophist and author, I. K. Taimni.

The Darker Side of Light - a Theo-Sophie dialogue

Bro. Derrick Ong and Sis. Choong Tsui Wei entertain us with the continuing dialogue of Theo and Sophie. This time they talk about the sad irony that religion which is intended to lead mankind towards the Light, so often reveals its darker side instead. Their discussion leads them to a wider examination of competition and conflict from a historical and evolutionary perspective.