celticgyan wrote:Many of us spend our time knocking Gyan ...
At this point, the BK explanations for the world are not relevant to my life. I am not commenting on Gyan itself, whether it is right or wrong. It is as useful to me as any other theology.
However, if you have ever attended or taught the Positive Thinking course, you will know that much of that stuff is left out and The Knowledge condenses into what could be said was a psychological therapy course.
Which can work if the problems aren't especially serious. Or if the person is ready for an external trigger to make an internal jump forward. What I think many of us react to is BK services being promoted as a solution to serious personal problems, diverting people from getting other, more effective kinds of assistance. It would be great if soul consciousness could cure mental illness. Many of us tried it, and it did not work. Ten years was generally long enough to determine that the fault was not with us for lack of faith, effort, surrender or sincerity.
I liked the Positive Thinking course. It wasn't so 'Indian' and 'Obscure' as the official course. I believe it helped people in prisons a lot and managers etc (though they also had a Self Management and Leadership course, I believe - same thing different name!). For a free course it was very good and worthwhile. Does everybody agree? I know it could be thought of as a back door of getting people into the real BK 'agenda' but lets keep the conspiracies out of it for once!
The courses may have marginal value to the participants. I think it is undisputed that the underlying purposes of the courses is to glorify the names of the BK organization and its God.