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Comment by Katinka Hesselink on May 11, 2009 at 7:14am

All in all a great set of videos. Added to my lens on Annie Besant.

Comment by Katinka Hesselink on May 11, 2009 at 6:57am

This documentary says that Besant was self taught - which isn't true. She had a teacher who taught her and other girls as charity. Of course this never went beyond what we would call high school, but it gave her a basis for further self-study & studying medicine later. In fact the help she got from people around her is minimized here - partly of course to make the video nice and short. 10 minutes is nothing after all.

Comment by Kathleen Silva on May 3, 2009 at 7:08pm

One can only admire her courage and commitment to the TS even though she would have preferred to remain the disciple of JK. One wonders what path her life would have taken if JK had agreed to take her along as his disciple. It seems after JK left the Society that Besant's faith was shattered as she, rather than challenging the orthodoxy of Christianity, once again embraced and promoted a quasi christianity with its heirarchy of bishops and archbishops - its rituals and its an idea that was abhorrent to her in her earlier years. From athiest to theosophist to quasi-ritualistic christianity in her non-condemnation of the LCC in Australia???

Comment by Erica Georgiades on May 3, 2009 at 10:25am

Which exposure? I think its a very nice short documentary...

Comment by Erica Georgiades on May 3, 2009 at 6:18am

Comment by Erica Georgiades on May 3, 2009 at 6:17am