9-3-2010 NO MEETING. Lodge Closed for Labor Day Weekend. Celebrate American Labor!

9-10-2010 Technology of Falling Awake: User’s Guide to Human Incarnation, Part Two of a Four Part Series — Richard Power

9-17-2010 William James: The Pragmatic Visionary (Quest Magazine) — Jan Black

9-24-2010 The Objects Unveiled — Ed Abdill (TSA Video Presentation)

POETRY: The SFTS Lodge’s Poetry Gathering is an informal, monthly group meeting from 6 pm to 7 pm. Here are the dates for the rest of the year: 6/11, 7/9, 8/13, 9/10, 10/8, 11/5 and 12/10. Bring your poetry and your voice.

Jack Sarfatti on Our Once and Future Holographic Universe, Part I

Jack Sarfatti on Our Once and Future Holographic Universe, Part II

Jack Sarfatti on Our Once and Future Holographic Universe, Part III

Jack Sarfatti on Our Once and Future Holographic Universe, Part IV

Jack Sarfatti on Our Once and Future Holographic Universe, Part V

Jack Sarfatti on Our Once and Future Holographic Universe, Part VI

8-6-2010 Conversations in Theosophy: Who am I? What is Consciousness? Death is Not Real … Why is this Important? — J.R. Collier

8-13-2010 Dan Aykroyd Unplugged on UFOs, Part One

8-20-2010 Dan Aykroyd Unplugged on UFOs, Part Two

8-27-2010 Technology of Falling Awake: User’s Guide to Human Incarnation, Part One of a Four Part Series — Richard Power

POETRY: The SFTS Lodge’s Poetry Gathering is an informal, monthly group meeting from 6 pm to 7 pm. Here are the dates for the rest of the year: 6/11, 7/9, 8/13, 9/10, 10/8, 11/5 and 12/10. Bring your poetry and your voice.

The opening lines of H.P. Blavatsky’s Voice of The Silence:

“He who would hear the voice of Nada, ‘the Soundless Sound,’ and comprehend it, he has to learn the nature of Dharana.

Having become indifferent to objects
of perception, the pupil must seek out the rajah of the senses, the Thought-Producer, he who awakes illusion.

The Mind is the great Slayer of the Real.

Let the Disciple slay the Slayer.

For –

When to himself his form appears unreal, as do on waking all the forms he sees in dreams;

When he has ceased to hear the many, he may discern the ONE — the inner sound which kills the outer.

Then only, not till then, shall he forsake the region of Asat, the false, to come unto the realm of Sat, the true.

Before the soul can see, the Harmony within must be attained, and fleshly eyes be rendered blind to all illusion.

Before the Soul can hear, the image (man) has to become as deaf to roarings as to whispers, to cries of bellowing elephants as to the silvery buzzing of the golden fire-fly.

Before the soul can comprehend and may remember, she must unto the Silent Speaker be united just as the form to which the clay is modelled, is first united with the potter’s mind.

For then the soul will hear, and will remember.

And then to the inner ear will speak –

THE VOICE OF THE SILENCE …”

Voice of Silence by H.P. Blavatsky, available from Quest Books

7-2-2010 CLOSED for July 4th Weekend! NO MEETING. Happy Independence Day!

7-9-2010 Conversations in Theosophy: Key To Theosophy on the Nature of Prayer

7-16-2010 Sukhavati – Joseph Campbell (video presentation)

7-23-2010 Owen Barfield – Prophet against Positivism (Quest Magazine) — Jan Black

7-30-2010 Our Once & Future Holographic Universe — Jack Sarfatti

POETRY: The SFTS Lodge’s Poetry Gathering is an informal, monthly group meeting from 6 pm to 7 pm. Here are the dates for the rest of the year: 6/11, 7/9, 8/13, 9/10, 10/8, 11/5 and 12/10. Bring your poetry and your voice.

6-4-2010 Conversations in Theosophy: 2012 and “The Coming of the Sixth Sun: Mayan Views of a New Cycle” (see Quest, Winter 2010)

6-11-2010 Conversations in Theosophy: Out of the Blue (2002), Awarding-Winning Documentary Narrated by Peter Coyote, (View Part I, & Discuss)

6-18-2010 Conversations in Theosophy: Out of the Blue (2002), Awarding-Winning Documentary Narrated by Peter Coyote, (View Part II, & Discuss)

6-25-2010 More Topics in Consciousness Research w/ Jeff Curtis

POETRY: The SFTS Lodge’s Poetry Gathering is an informal, monthly group meeting from 6 pm to 7 pm. The May event will be held on 5-14-10. Here are the dates for the rest of the year: 6/11, 7/2, 8/13, 9/10, 10/8, 11/5 and 12/10. Bring your poetry and your voice.

The third Avowed Object, of course, is to “investigate the unexplained laws of Nature and the powers latent” in sentient beings. (We are very happy that our Lodge has been fortunate to have members whose backgrounds and expertise have kept us true to this Object as well as the other two.)

In a wonderful report on his attendance at this year’s Toward a Science of Consciousness 2010 in Tuscon, Arizona, Professor Jeff Curtis highlighted some recent developments in the exploration of consciousness, touching on aspects of Iyengar Yoga, Artificial Intelligence, Near Death Studies, and more!

Click on the link below to listen to an audio recording of Jeff’s report; is less than an hour in length, and well worth your time.

Jeff Curtis Reports on Tuscon 2010 Consiousness Conference

5-7-2010 White Lotus Day
Join us for our celebration of the Life and Work of H.P. Blavatsky

5-14-2010 If You Have No Judgment, There’s Nothing You Need to Fix
Marian Shirin

5-21-2010 Conversations in Theosophy: Current Views on Karma

5-28-2010 NO MEETING — LODGE CLOSED — IN HONOR OF MEMORIAL DAY!

POETRY: The SFTS Lodge’s Poetry Gathering is an informal, monthly group meeting from 6 pm to 7 pm. The May event will be held on 5-14-10. Here are the dates for the rest of the year: 6/11, 7/2, 8/13, 9/10, 10/8, 11/5 and 12/10. Bring your poetry and your voice.

Taungpulu Sayadaw

Taungpulu Sayadaw on “What Makes Meditation?” (Translated by Rina Sircar

(Excerpted from Blooming in the Desert, Favorite Teachings of the Wildflower Monk Taungpulu Sayadaw, Edited by Anne Teich, North Atlantic Books, 1996)

“When you know that you are having greed, you are no longer in ignorance, but possess knowledge.
If you know that you are angry, and have hatred, you are no longer in ignorance but possess knowledge.
When you know that you are having ignorance, that knowing becomes knowledge and it is meditation.
Even if you become aware of the feeling, ‘I don’t want to meditate,’ that means that you have the insight that you don’t want to meditate. Since you know that you do not want to meditate, that knowing becomes the meditation — the mindfulness and awareness that you know what you don’t want to do.”

4-2-10 Ramana Maharshi
(Video Presentation)

4-9-2010 P.G. Bowen’s Sayings of the Ancient One & The Occult Way

4-16-2010 Kabir
Chris Black

4-23-2010 Conversations in Theosophy

4-30-2010 Consciousness News from the Tucson Conference of 2010
Jeff Curtis

POETRY: The SFTS Lodge’s Poetry Gathering is an informal, monthly group meeting from 6 pm to 7 pm. The April event will be held on 4-9-10. Here are the dates for the rest of the year: 5/14. 6/11, 7/2, 8/13, 9/10, 10/8, 11/5 and 12/10. Bring your poetry and your voice.