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Living With Differences


I am posting this text as a blog because it is in part a continuation of my blog on “10 December Human Rights Day “and in part a reply to Tracy C. Smith’s question on how can we live with differences and can we help others to live with their differences?.

I think that we need to look at dramatic situations which could become even more violent. Differences of views within a TS Lodge is one thing, people blowing themselves up in order to kill others with different views… Continue

Jude M. Antonyappan
The Way It IS
(Center for Social Action Through Spirituality
PO Box 601614, Sacramento, CA 95860, 2001, 223pp.).


Mary Byles in her book on the Buddha and Mahatma Gandhi, The Lotus and the Spinning Wheel, writes “There is a middle way between rushing in trying to effect reforms when still filled with feelings of innate hatred and ill-will and not trying to effect those reforms at all until such feelings have been killed. It will always be difficult to find that middle way, b… Continue

If synthesis is to be a major aspect of the coming age, it is useful to look at an important earlier effort at synthesis-that of the Roman Stoics. From the discussions and differing philosophical traditions found in the Mediterranean world, they developed the concept of the person and then the citizen, concepts which have come down to us as pointed out in this essay marking December 10th: Human Rights Day

Human Rights: The Emergence of the Person
Rene Wadlow

All human rights are universal, ind… Continue

Mundy and the Khyber Rifles
Rene Wadlow

He who would understand the Plains must ascend the Eternal Hills, where a man’s eyes scan Infinity. Be he who would make use of understanding must descend on the Plains where Past and Future meet, and men have need of him.
Talbut Mundy Om-The Secret of Abbor Valley

The current fighting on both sides of the Afghanistan-Pakistan frontier and the Khyber Pass which links the two countries brings to mind the theosophical novel King of the Khyber Rifles (1916)… Continue

This hostage-taking case is what I am working on these days, difficult because of the fighting along part of the frontier, but others may be interested in reading about the Kalacha people. The fullest description is the French text I give in the note of my presentation, but there is a good pit in English if one Googles Kalasha. Best wishes, Rene


Dear Colleagues,

I would be pleased if you can help in this effort to liberate a hostage on the Pakistan-Afghan frontier. Best wishes, Rene Wadlow… Continue