Thought and the New World
“Each era has its own call. The power of thought will be the evocative principle of the New World.”
(Agni Yoga, 101)
The Teaching of Agni Yoga is calling forth those magnetized with the power of creative thinking, new ideas, and the vision of infinity to open the gates to the New World. Herein lies our hope for living in a future of unfolding Beauty, Freedom, Unity, and Synthesis.
The new thinkers will be those who are inspired with higher thinking, with a lofty thinking that inspires the pioneers of humanity with a broadening of consciousness and a new level of leadership. Great Ones are impressing us with the importance of having pure hearts and pure thoughts. Those who are responding to these impressions, those with the power of creative thinking, will lead the inhabitants of our planet to a path of beauty, survival, joy, and success. Creative thinkers, those who are responding to the Call of the Great Ones, will be those charged with establishing a new era of leadership, opening the gates to the New World.
Such thinkers are true new era leaders, providing in themselves the example of a constant broadening of thinking in order to approach with foresight the New World, foresight resulting from communion with the planetary Hierarchy. They are those who have an alertness in thinking and demonstrate a clear striving. They are those who are examples of the art of thinking and who hold a refinement of consciousness.
One of the Great Thinkers of the Brotherhood of Light, the Master M., instructed: “Humanity must study more carefully its thinking. It is necessary to establish in schools the science of thinking, not as an abstract psychology but as the practical fundamentals of memory, attention, and concentration.” Fiery World III, 429.
The purpose of this year’s conference theme, Thought and the New World, is to give birth to the regeneration of our thoughts. The Great One says, “He who does not help the regeneration of thought is no friend of the New World.” (Fiery World I, 60) With the regeneration of thought in the world, we can affirm that the gates to the New World are wide open.
“Thought and the New World” with Joleen
Featured Speakers
Joleen DuBois
Joleen DuBois is a board member of the Nicholas Roerich Museum and the International Agni Yoga Society headquartered in New York City. She founded the White Mountain Education Association (WMEA) forty years ago, which is headquartered in Prescott, Arizona, and is a source for the Ageless Wisdom and Agni Yoga.
Author, translator, compiler, editor of over 40 books in Slovak, Russian, English, Sanskrit, Hindi languages; film director, scriptwriter, editor of documentary films on India and the Roerichs.
Alena Adamkova
Paul Balyoz
Paul has a lifetime of experience as a computer scientist and engineer, combined with extensive business and investing experience over the past fifteen years. His insight with money, finance, and business on many levels has given him a unique view of modern day economics as well as the future of economics.
Jeff was born in 1953 and grew up in the Los Angeles area. At 16 he went to Osaka for a yearlong home stay with a Japanese family. He became fascinated with the martial arts, traditional Japanese theater and, above all, Zen. He pursued undergraduate studies in Japanese language and culture, and after graduating in 1974 moved to Tokyo.
Jeff Clark
Wendy Thompson
Wendy J Thompson is a Producer, Director, Screenwriter, Educator, Leader, Playwright and co-Founder of the Global Silent Minute. Wendy strives to create work imbued with purpose to touch the heart with radiant synthetic beauty.
Lewis has been an active member of the WMEA for the past thirty-five years, giving lectures and utilizing his graphic design and illustration skills for WMEA publications, My Teachers, At the Threshold of the New World, and Agni Yoga Quarterly. He is currently a part of a WMEA team that is translating, from the original Russian, Helena Roerich’s work, The High Path, which is a compilation of communications between H.R. and Master M.
Lewis Agrell
Kathryn Agrell
For almost thirty-six years now, Kathryn has been with White Mountain as a student of the Ageless Wisdom. With the WMEA, Kathryn is continually honing her skills as a copyeditor, proofreader, and indexer in WMEA’s group projects, including Agni Yoga Quarterly and books by and about Nicholas and Helena Roerich. She is also a member of the WMEA office staff.
Annakama is a member of the WMEA Editing Team. She was introduced to the Ageless Wisdom in 1994. In 2008, her spiritual teacher gifted her two books from the Agni Yoga Series, Agni Yoga and Aum. Her quest to learn Agni Yoga led her to the WMEA in 2018. Annakama lives with her family on the Gold Coast, Australia, and works as a lawyer, managing a criminal defense law firm.
Annakama Chrysston
Valarie Drost
Valarie has been a member of the White Mountain Education Association since 1984. She studied Theatre Arts at Florida State University. Her travels to other countries such as Great Britain, Ireland, Europe, China, and Africa broadened her appreciation of the beauty, richness, and diversity of other cultures, recognizing the common threads that connects us all.
Kathy’s spiritual path began at an early age. Due to her father’s career as a paleontologist, he moved the family to Saudi Arabia when Kathy was six years old. This led to her immersion in a multicultural society with friends from countries around the globe.
Kathy is part of the WMEA editing committee. Along with a team of coworkers within the WMEA, she assisted in the editing of a book by Nicholas Roerich. She is also collaborating as part of a WMEA committee as an editor with the English translation of the Helena Roerich Notebooks.
Kathy O’Conner
Ginette Parisi
Ginette helped to create An Agni Yoga Companion and is the focalizer of the WMEA Death and Transition focus group. Ginette says that the path of Agni Yoga taught her the wisdom of living a life of virtue and the vision to strive toward perfection. What matters to her is a life lived with beauty, integrity, joy and freedom.
Doreen’s profession, alongside motherhood, has been as an Early Childhood Educator. In 1991 she became a trained Waldorf teacher and is devoted to the nature-based curriculum and environments. She has been invited to speak at events with the CAEYC (Colorado Association for the Education of the Young Child) promoting high quality education and support to all children, professionals, and families in the state of Colorado.
