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Benson, at Harvard Medical School has written two books documenting the influence of beliefs on the health and physiology of the body. one is Beyond The Relaxation Response and the other is the Break Out Principle.

Show me the flow of the $$$$$$$ and cents. Pink, there is always the element of delusion and I agree that it is best to walk away. As an ex-BK walks away, the mistake made is not looking inside of her or himself an reviewing her or his spiritual contract. The contract we signed on to when we agreed ...

Some very important question are these: Why has the fraction of the 1% who control the global systems, including the global economy, allowed BKism to grow? Rajnesh was stopped or slowed down. How has the fraction of the 1% allowed the BKs a higher and higher profile in the news media? Sure, they may...

Null's characterization of souls by their life energies have similarities to Gardner's model of MI. In Null's model there are seven life energies manifested through individuals, one per person through out the person's life. They are: Creative Assertive; Adaptive Assertive; Adaptive Aggressive; Adapt...

Ex-I, for sure the BKs feel that they are the dissidents, the agents of change and paradigm snifters. How can you be fully accepting most of a sub-culture, suppressing authentic, dissidence, dismissing authentic dissidence, and claim that, because you are a BK, you have a right to wear the hat and c...

I smile broadly when I see Denise's name as one of the authors of the Shift. Why do I smile? I smile for many reasons. One reason is the fact that the idea of shift in the BK sub-culture was presented on this site many many months ago along the line of Khun's Structure of Scientific Revolutions. Som...

Hello Kajal, Pink's and Ex-I advice are sound. I would also add that you should develop your intuition and learn to listen to your inner voice with blunt honesty. When you intuition is well developed you will be able to make decisions that will be beneficial to you in non-selfish ways. It is also go...

Hello Sukshmbindu, Thank you very much for your engaging and thoughtful post. The Japan Karate Association (JKA) developed the Shotokan Ryu or School of Karate and has one of the highest standards of karate-do in the world. Every year, the senior instructors, usually those from 7 th or 8 th dan will...

The horse is an excellent analogy. In the Bhagavad Gita, the horse symbolize the mind. Some investigations indicate that Scotland was a haven for the Knights Templars who morphed into the Free Masons and currently have predominant influence around the world. The Free Masons, it seems, are the face a...

Ah Ha!!!! Ex I. Such a book project is an ingenious idea! The world needs a book on the interaction of Black Consciousness with BKism. For me personally, it has never been an issue of white washing or black washing and race problems in the BK community never bothered me. I have dated more god Sister...

I think the stories of the Western ex-BKs who almost lost all in pursuing the path of BKism and have gone on with their lives are heroic. I remembered 40 years ago in Madhuban when just about two dozen of us Western Raj yogis were allowed to remain in Madhuban and undergo intensive training in medit...

I, personally, do not observe Kwanza, though I am African American or West Indian. Rather, I celebrate this season as the birth of Horus. My celebration is spiritual and festive, with a spiritual foundation. This has always been a magical time for me and I like to absorb and bond with the positive e...

After almost 40 plus years there is a deep and extensive discussion on souls in black bodies and their interactions with BKism. Some high ranking Sisters in the BK organization performed double acts of racism combined with sexism. Females were supposed to be better than males, especially light skin ...

Pink, thank you for your clarification. I would add that if the blind yogi was more advanced on his path he would have been able to pick up the dangers of the flood. In setting up camp, if he were very in tuned with nature, his highly developed senses would have have forewarned him of the dangers or...

There are two major schools of Yoga meditation: the mantra system and the mindfulness. The mindfulness meditation has been suitable for randomized control studies, though there is a need for more detailed scientific studies. The BK Raj Yoga is more than likely in the class of mindfulness meditation....