Dear readers and correspondents
With the changes around the world – from the struggle for self-determination and freedom of thought of the ‘Arab Spring’ revolts to the climatic and geographic upheavals – we perhaps forget that children will make our future as much as we theirs. On our return we’ll inherit the results of those intervening generations, for better or for worse.
So this quarter’s AQ starts with a review of the plight too many of the world’s children, the possible causes, and gives practical advice on overcoming them… and p 10 finishes with the new French film ‘BABIES’, a documentary about four babies’ lives on four continents – well worth a look at the trailer.
We are pleased to report on the ever-swelling ‘Justice for Judge’ annual letter writing protest, on p 4 – if you aren’t one of those who wrote this year, do think about it – we’ll send out reminders March next. We remain convinced of the need for mutual recognition of the work of WQJ by all parts of the movement if it is to regain its vitality and coherence.
For those living in the US, researcher Dr Sheldrake has launched a new mobile phone Telepathy Test on p 7 and is looking for volunteers – if you have someone you share a close link with do try it… and you get paid for your work!
There are many other items of interest – happy browsing,
The AQ Editors
The Pollution of the Soul & its Cure p 1
‘Sunshine vitamin’ for cancer patients p 3
The 2011 Letters to India p 4
Alchemy in Agriculture p 5
Water remembers… but only for certain people p 6
Keely’s discovery depended on his ‘ether’ p 6
Mobile Phone Telepathy Test p 7
Publishing news from TS Pasadena p 7
Internet and the Movement p 7
Parallels Between Rome and America p 8
Building Global Democracy? p 9
The History of the TS in Canada p 9
Theosophy Conference 2011 p 9
WISDOM IN ACTION p 10
Born to Four Different Worlds p 10
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May ’11 AQ: The Pollution of the Soul & its Cure
From a correspondent in Vienna, Austria
“Let us roll back the stone of matter from the door of our own inner sanctuary and resurrect the Spirit crucified in us!”
I have just read the Unicef Report from March 2011 and have been shocked about the information therein.
* There are 143 million underweight children under five years old;
* About 100 million children do not attend the elementary school;
* About 9 million children are fugitives in their homelands because of armed conflicts;
* About 2 million children are HIV infected.
An enormous quantity of goods and medicaments are necessary to provide the children with the most needed things: tablets against water pollution, mosquito nets, pencils, exercise books, blankets, sugar-salt mixtures against diarrhoea, peanut butter for deficiency diseases, vaccine against measles etc. This is only an excerpt from a long list of needed goods.
It must be done all we can to improve the life conditions of those children and their families. There are many international organizations for emergency aid. Especially we theosophists are responsible that we hear every cry of help.
ONE night in the year 407 B.C., Socrates had a dream.
