To say that religions began in the same spot is myopic. Religions and religious beliefs sprang up all over the world, most predating the so-called great religions by thousands of years. The Dreamtime of the Australian Aboriginals goes back about 60,000 years. Your objectivity is still being influenc...
All these groups attempt to add a veneer of respectability by adopting buzz words - green, environment, scientific method, quantum, etc. This Mexico bunch sounds like one more on a very long, long list
Seven billion! Haven't you been updating your Murlis? End of the World adherents will hang their hat onto anything that comes along, no matter how preposterous or stupid. The Comet (Elinan) is due to pass 35 million kilometres from Earth next year. It's a fizzer as comets go anyway. But there are th...
Robin sent me a link to this movie, but knowing the pro-BK stance of Robin, Tamasin and the NSW trendy/yuppie/almost-BK's set, I haven't bothered with it. Now I may have a look at it. The dichotomy that all these almost-BK's seem to be able to hold in their minds is that (a) Baba/Brahma/Shiva/knowle...
Been away for a while, travelling the world. Seriously, how could anyone think Adi Dev is true? Robert Shubow put it together and the Old Testament would contain more convincing material than this pile of fairy tales and gibberish. "I am the Blissful Self! I am Shiva! I am Shiva!" Give me ...
Yes, Jann, exactly. Has this one been swept under the carpet now? I feel for those people who wrote this letter. An enormous act of courage if you're still inside looking out. But no understanding of politics. They're not celibate, they're impotent. Mao once said, "Political power comes from th...
You can rest assured that this organisation has a lot of money, property and resources. Probably less than the Catholic Church, but they've only been at it for 70 years or so, not 2,000. I would doubt the BKs themselves would know exactly how much they have or make, as it's probably all fragmented a...
One of the many BK Centres I lived in was Milton, not far from the Brisbane River. It's not a Centre now. Around every thirty years, there are major floods somewhere in Australia, and this one is probably the worst since white settlement. Queensland and Northern NSW are prone to very heavy and prolo...
Hello. Back again, but a long way from home. Glad to see that the facility of enquiry is not dead in this person even after 40 years of BK life. Destruction? Don't you get sick of it? The biggest mistake the BKs have made, and one they cannot manipulate their way out of, is putting specific dates on...
So you were never asked for money? Lucky you! In my earliest days, one of the things I especially liked about the BK's was the fact that money was not even accepted from anyone outside the immediate BK family, even to the point that only money from practising BKs (observing celibacy) could be used t...
The Christians recruited very successfully amongst the Vikings by selling the idea that Destruction was coming - and that was at the end of the first millennia. It's a cop out - a refusal to take responsibility for the world as it is and try to do something about it. Easier to just write it off or j...
It does get easier. All the supportive advice is great and you are not alone. You've got a tough time ahead of you and you'll need help. If you can, find another ex-BK who might help you deprogram. I had a lot of help from one person during the first eighteen months and it did make the path easier t...
Interesting what you learn. So Hansa was the one who took you on? Having once lived in the San Antonio Center, I could tell a few stories but I won't. No point dragging up old gossip. Life after exiting the BKs? After 14 years, it was like simultaneously divorcing about 100 people - I had no life, n...
Good luck. Rather like getting an alcoholic to stop drinking. It can only come from their own rock bottom experience. Make them aware of this website and if possible, bring them into contact with an ex-BK, preferably one who is not hysterical or angrily anti-BK. They think they've found the pot of g...