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Smartphones & Spirituality
About the event
Most people feel a yearning for meaning, connection, and spiritual elevation and of course there are many advantages to the new technology in spiritual work: we can talk with one another across the world, explore spiritual websites for educative purposes, freely read previously rare books from spiritual teachers, enrol in online courses and engage in chat groups to satiate our need for spiritual-based content and conversation.
However a phone-based life can also conversely fill our yearning for meaning, connection and spiritual elevation with trivial and degrading content. The Ancient Wisdom certainly advised us to be more deliberate in choosing what we expose ourselves to in our relation with other people and now with the potent new communications technology.
Join Andrew as he explores the question: Do we want to have happy and balanced lives cherishing our values based in the time-honoured standards of the Ancient Wisdom, or are we going to submit to living a technological nightmare? It’s up to us which path we choose.
Andrew Rooke is the author/editor of many journal articles of books on spiritual subjects and librarianship including: *Laws of Life* (2004) and *Creator and Creators* (2018) both these books being co-authored/edited with Roza & Magarita Riaikkenen. Andrew is also the founding editor of the online magazine, *The Ancient Wisdom Downunder* which is available free of charge four times per year by contacting Andrew at: [andrewrooke@hotmail.com](mailto:andrewrooke@hotmail.com)
The MTS is committed to providing events that align with and further The three objects of The Theosophical Society:
• To form a nucleus of the universal brotherhood of humanity, without distinction of race, creed, sex, caste or colour. • To encourage the study of comparative religion, philosophy and science. • To investigate unexplained laws of nature and the powers latent in the human being.
However this being stated, the MTS does not endorse any health, spiritual, science-related, philosophical or theological /other assertions or claims made by any facilitator we host.
