• Know Someone in Need of Healing?

    The TOS Healing Network is a free service that practitioners provide to contribute to the positive energy of an individual. This helps the healee’s body find its own balance which leads to healing. Recipients of healing have reported feeling calmer as well as having a more positive outlook. Patients who have been recipients of energetic healing have reported fewer complications during surgery and a decreased recovery time afterwards.

    To know more click here.

  • When Our Companions Need Healing

    The TOS Animal Healing Network is in its seventh year and has over 26 healers waiting to send loving healing energy to your friend. In the past year, over 90 names of different animals have been given for healing, nationally and internationally.

    To give the name of an animal you feel is need of healing, click here.

  • Stop Your FOMO and Sign Up for Our Newsletter!

    OneHeart is our quarterly newsletter that gives you information about the latest projects of the TOS, ideas about service projects you can do in your own area, and connects you to issues that are important to create a better world.

    To sign up for our newsletter, look for the signup box at the bottom left of this page.

  • Ways to Stay Healthy

    Here are some resources that might help. We hope you take advantage of them. And we are always here to help. Feel free to email us at info@theoservice.org for any questions or concerns you may have.

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  • Latest Issue of For the Love of Life

    The 2017-2018 winter issue of For the Love of Life is available to read for free online. This edition revolves around ethics. The editorial staff would like to thank its readers for all its support. Physical copies are available by request.

Latest News

TOS Elects New President

At a TOS board meeting on March 5, the TOS unanimously elected Kathy Gann as the new president of the Theosophical Order of Service, replacing Ananya Sri Ram Rajan. Kathy is no stranger to the TOS, having served on its board for several years in the past. During that time, she was the national liaison coordinator, a position that was essential to the growth of the TOS in the US. In this office, she worked to stay in touch with TOS group leaders around the country through a newsletter called Spirit of Service and helped with project ideas to get groups active.

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Featured Project

HELPING THE USPS “STAMP OUT HUNGER!”

On Saturday, May 13, 2023, nine TOS volunteers from the Wheaton-Olcott TOS helped the US Postal Service in Willowbrook, IL, with its annual “Stamp Out Hunger” initiative.  Postal workers have participated since 1993 by gathering donations from their customers.  For about 20 years, theosophist Floyd Kettering’s nonprofit, Humanitarian Service Project (HSP), has been the recipient of food items gathered from the area’s post office customers, since HSP has a well-established network in place to distribute groceries to food-insecure families and seniors in the area.

Teamwork between organizations, and teamwork among friends, wins the day and gets the job done!

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President's Blog

How Good Things Really Are

To begin, I wish to express a world of gratitude for the six years of service beautifully fulfilled by Ananya Sri Ram Rajan as President of the TOS-USA.  Thanks are due not only to Ananya, but to all those who have served within the TOS since its founding by Annie Besant in 1908.  The TOS stands on solid ground today because so many workers, known and unknown, kept working, doing whatever they could to ease the suffering they saw.  As the TOS emerges from three challenging pandemic years and undergoes its current change in administration, it’s a good time to look within and ask ourselves, “

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Speaking of Peace

October 19, 2021

Did you know that according to visionofhumanity.org, violence costs the world $14 trillion dollars annually? It is difficult to comprehend such a sum of money except to know that it is large and that such a sum could benefit a number of poor people around the world.  Such funds could create schools, build sustainable infrastructure, enhance healthcare, and provide countries with the wealth needed for disaster relief.

In reality, when looking at the world’s problems with regard to violence, it isn’t the world that is the problem. It’s the people. Among the population of people, there is not one population that is the culprit, it’s all of us. Violence lives in every one of us. Even Gandhi admitted that he had little patience for his illiterate wife whom it has been said he abused. Being aware that we are violent, truly aware, can create a change in us, as Krishnamurti states. The question is, can we accept that we are violent? Read more about Speaking of Peace

Golden Link College Update

August 24, 2021

For the last ten years the TOS-USA, along with its international TOS partners, has facilitated the Kern Foundation matching grant program for the Golden Link College (GLC). This grant has supported the education of innumerable children who cannot afford the needed supplies for a solid academic education that encourages theosophical principles. While this might not seem extraordinary, reconsider the fact that very few education systems work to instill non-dogmatic character building at their primary levels. Most education systems that provide any kind of ethical teaching are religion based. Read more about Golden Link College Update

Do No Harm: Our Greatest Challenge

August 23, 2021

Ananya Sri Ram Rajan

One of the first lessons learned as a therapist is “do no harm.” This statement basically covers so many of the various ethics one must abide by when practicing psychotherapy. It is said that the code stems from the medical model that doctors follow when taking the Hippocratic Oath. Given the state of healthcare around the world, it is easy to see why “do no harm” has drastic consequences when ignored. Read more about Do No Harm: Our Greatest Challenge

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