148. Internationale Convention 2023
"Exploring and Understanding UNIVERSAL INTELLIGENCE"
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PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE
There is a shared misconception that we seem to treasure:
that there is a Universal Intelligence, and there is us;
there is a Heaven and an Earth; a God and all the rest.
The sooner we release ourselves from this conviction of separation
the sooner both we and the Earth can heal.
Tim Boyd zur Convention
Sonntag, 31.12.2023
4.00 OPENING OF THE CONVENTION
Prayers of the Religions, Universal Prayer, Greetings, Invocation and opening by the International President
Launch of book of Radha Burnier, Group Photo
5.00 KEYNOTE “ADYAR EXTENSION”
TS REPORT worldwide in 2022-23, Tim Boyd, International President, TS Adyar
10.00 BESANT LECTURE
“Virtue”, M. M. Sundresh, Judge, Supreme Court of India
12.00 NEW YEAR’S WORLD MUSIC CONCERT
Global Rhythms—Blueprint of a New World, Award winning Vocalists, Musicians, LEAP Boundary Breakers
Montag, 1.1.2024
4.00 SYMPOSIUM ON “EXPLORING AND UNDERSTANDING”
“Understanding an Explorer’s Mind”, Richard Sell, National President, TS in New Zealand
“The Science and the Art of Living”, Isis de Resende, TS in Brazil
“Seeking and Knowing”, Gerard Brennan, President of Indo-Pacific Federation
5.15 SHORT LECTURES
“Understanding Universal Intelligence”, Dr Deepa Padhi, International Vice-President
“Intelligence: The Foundation of All Life”, Mr Stephen McDonald, National President, TS in Australia
6.30 INDIAN SECTION CONVENTION-I
“Inaugural Address”, Tim Boyd, International President
“State of The Indian Section Address”, Pradeep Gohil, President, Indian Section
12.30 THEOSOPHY-SCIENCE LECTURE
"Contemporary Science: Facts, Ideas, Questions", Prof. Rajaram Nityananda, Professor of Physics, International Centre for Theoretical
Sciences, TIFR
15.00 THEOSOPHY BY ART (Choir & Skit)
BEAT, Bank Employees Art Troop, an awarded Choir Skit by B.T.F., Bombay Theosophical Federation
Dienstag, 2.1.2024
5.45 PANEL ON “INTELLIGENCE AND HUMAN NEED”
Linda Oliveira, TS in Australia, Chairperson
Marcos de Resende, TS in Brazil
Trân-Thi-Kim-Diêu, TS in France
Chally Romero, TS in Philippines
10:45 INTERVIEW
Olande Ananda Thera, Venerable Buddhist Monk, Sri Lanka, interviewed by Patrizia calvi, TS in Italy
12.30 PANEL: THEOSOPHY AND ART: "From Origin to Horizons”
Elif Kamisli, Exhibition Manager, Turkey
Anupama Gaur, Consultant Conservator, India
Erica Georgiades, Director of The School of the Wisdom, Greece
15.00 EVENING PROGRAM – A PLAY
Crea-Shakthi presents “Universal Consciousness: Life, Death & Everything in Between"
Mittwoch, 3.1.2024
4.00 THEOSOPHICAL ORDER OF SERVICE (TOS)
Presentation by Nancy Secrest, TOS International Secretary, USA / Resident at Adyar
DANCE GROUP Sri Arunodayam Home for Mentally Challenged Destitute Children
5.15 DIALOGUE “THEOSOPHICAL WORK AND UNIVERSAL INTELLIGENCE”
Tim Boyd, International President, Pedro Oliveira, TS in Australia
6.15 INDIAN SECTION CONVENTION II “ILLUMINATION FROM WITHIN”
Opening and closing remarks, Deepa Padhi as Chairperson
“Meaning of Illumination from Within”, Vinay Patri
“How to get the Illumination from Within”, Harsha S.S. Sonthi
“Advantages of having Illumination from within”, Adi Keshav Shastri
“Difficulties in Getting Illumination from within”, Mitalini Choudhury
“Consciousness as Source of Illumination”, Harshvadan Sheth
12.30 PUBLIC LECTURE
“Remembering the Future Garden”, Joss Brooks, Veteran Australian Ecologist Pitchandikulam Forest, Auroville
15.00 CULTURAL EVENING
Artistic Sharing by the Delegates and Adyar Choir, Vinay Patri, Moderator, TS in India
Donnerstag, 4.1.2024
4.00 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
Tim Boyd, Deepa Padhi, Pradeep Gohil, Douglas Keene
5.15 SHORT LECTURES ON ADVAITA
"Universal Intelligence is to Know the Field and the Knower of the Field” — An Advaitic Perspective Based on Śrīmad Bhagavadgītā 13.2", Dr Radha Raghunathan, Director of Adyar Library and Research Centre
“Advaita, self-Knowing and Universal Intelligence”, Sri Sankara Bhagavadpada, a Hindu teacher of Jnana Yoga and Commentator on the life-time work of Sri J. KrishnamurƟ
10.30 PLENARY SESSION
Reports from the workshops World Federation of Young Theosophists (WFYT), Propagation Project, including SOW
12.30 PUBLIC LECTURE BY THE PRESIDENT
“The Land and Us”, Tim Boyd, International President, TS Adyar
13.30 CLOSING OF THE CONVENTION
Tim Boyd, International President
Vote of Thanks, Shikhar Agnihotri, Convention Officer