With the passage of the Winter Solstice, we begin a New Year with a slightly increasing amount of light each day. 

The metaphor of increasing light is irresistible, filling us with hope for a peaceful, more enlightened world in the year to come.  Each year we say, "Never has the world needed Light as badly as it needs Light now."  Next, we may ask, “But what can I do?  I’m just one person."   [node:read-more:link]

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, “ [node:read-more:link]

At the time of this writing, it has been a little over a month since Russia invaded Ukraine. Since then, more than 10 million people have been displaced. They are either moving to cities within Ukraine that are not “hotspots” or to another country altogether. As many know, neighboring countries like Poland, Hungary, Romania, and Slovakia have been welcoming the thousands of people fleeing their homeland. The majority are women and children as men between the ages of 18 to 60 have been asked to stay behind to defend the country. The UN now reports that half the children in Ukraine have had to leave their homes. [node:read-more:link]

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. [node:read-more:link]