These are just some thoughts I have been having on "psychic addiction", its similarity to BKism, & how to break the cycles of it. I am consider two forms of psychic addiction;
I have always admitted that some individual do actually have strong psychic experiences through doing Brahma Kumaris meditation and associating with them. That is true. What I disagree with is about the source and nature, and that they are necessary "good". I don't think they are. As I stated recently in another topic, I think they and the BK "dealers" encourage addiction and addictive pattern in adherents that are very similar in experience and nature to substance or drug abuse.
They encourage a kind of psychic or spiritualist dependency, rather then the liberation they promise, and psychic dependency, or dependence on psychic or spiritualist mediums is a well know and discussed phenomenon again closely relating to Brahma Kumarism as BKism is a psychic or spiritualist cult. It is a cult based on spiritualism, or the mediumcy of the allegedly deceased and other spirits ... and it's core patterns are very similar to traditional psychic abuse which generally traps individuals, keeping their addicted in order to exploit them for money, on the basis of predictions and assurances that never come true.
I've always said that it I was an evil spirit that wanted to entrap humanity, I would not come wearing a red cloak with a tail and horns being nasty. No, I would appear to you as an Angel of Light, apparently high minded and noble, I would tell you 9 truths ... and then on the 10th, I would lie to you and trap you and by that own your soul. I would start to set you to experience difficulties, and then appear to be the one who could save you from those difficulties. I seemingly offer you everything I had for free, and then gradually turn the screws until you were giving me everything you had and asking for more and more as the only way out ... and, I tell you, by doing so I'd be able to entrap a fair sized proportion of the population. I'd predict things no one could disprove or prove and when they failed, I distract you with another even bigger prediction and ensure it would happen ... if only you gave more.
And that is, exactly what is going on in BKism.
But there is something in the meditation that is like or triggers drug-like reactions in the spirit/brain. Some kind of "spiritual injection" we don't quite understand ... and that is a term the god spirit of the BKs has literally used.
Psychic dependency is a dependency on psychic or spiritualist mediums; "fortune readers", psychic call lines or spiritualist churches and centres, that many individuals suffer from. Generally they do so at vulnerable times in their lives, e.g. after a death, during periods of lovelessness or loneliness, illness or confusion.
Again, all basically identical in experience to many or most BKs' adherence, e.g. I remember reading Neville Hodgkinson story about his becoming hooked after an illness that threatened his life and made him question it.
Commentators on psychic dependency consider it generally happens when individuals feeling overwhelmed by life and the world around them, when they don't know where to turn, what to do or what life is all about. They seek spiritual promises and guidance.
Good and intuitive advice can be helpful when you need to make a decision. However, it becomes problematic when you feel as though you cannot make any decision without running it by a psychic. Within the BKWSU, replace "psychic" with "Senior Sister" or "sister-in-charge". BKism is based on psychic mediumship of various forms, mostly the trance mediumship or channeling of spirits, but many BK Sisters will claim to have, or claim the Dadis have, intuitive powers to receive direct guidance from god or their deceased founder and enjoy playing guru or guide to other BKs, generally newcomers or vulnerable individuals despite for a "sign" or help.
BKism even goes further to encourage an infantile dependency on the senior Sisters and their "Shrimat" rather than learning to trust one's own intuitions or accumulated experience which they portray as Maya-like, unreliable "manmat", or the advice of others, especially non-BK others, even if they are experts, e.g. doctors, therapists, other religionists, non-BK family. The individual become completely separated from the non-BK world.
A common thread in psychic dependency is that the adherents lose a lot of money, even their properties, to the mediums they become addicted upon.
So too BKism.
Addicts chasing psychic after psychic for validation or consolations similar to how some BKs seek advice or meetings with their Dadis and look to the Murlis for mystical answers to their problems ... they are actually taught to believe that their Baba is speaking to them personally via stream of consciousness rambles original spoken to a group of 50 or so old ladies 50 years ago! Typically, psychic addicts become trapped in cycles of "just going back for one more reading" and actually being exploited based on their fears, fears with BKism even exaggerate in individuals' minds during "just one more year of BKism".
It is said reputable therapists, psychics or gurus all share the same principles, they will never make decisions for you. BK leaders will even play on this, posing BKism as "your choice" ... however, having previously limited down the number of possible choices you might be able to make based on fear or hypnotic suggestion (brainwashing).
One hook, addictive psychics exploit is individuals desire to wanting to know the purpose or outcome of life.
BKism, with its 'back of a postcard' sized philosophy, answer ... or rather plugs ... these questions;
People developing psychic dependency generally consider that the worst thing is not knowing and they have a craving to know ... to be sure. And, I would add, a small percentage have a craving to be seen as the deliverer of knowing too ... a guru complex which the psychologically narcissistic (a technical term) are immediately attracted to as it feeds their egos and gives power over others.
- Firstly, mental, spiritual or psychic forms of addiction, and
Secondly, addiction to psychics or spiritualists like the Brahma Kumaris.
I have always admitted that some individual do actually have strong psychic experiences through doing Brahma Kumaris meditation and associating with them. That is true. What I disagree with is about the source and nature, and that they are necessary "good". I don't think they are. As I stated recently in another topic, I think they and the BK "dealers" encourage addiction and addictive pattern in adherents that are very similar in experience and nature to substance or drug abuse.
They encourage a kind of psychic or spiritualist dependency, rather then the liberation they promise, and psychic dependency, or dependence on psychic or spiritualist mediums is a well know and discussed phenomenon again closely relating to Brahma Kumarism as BKism is a psychic or spiritualist cult. It is a cult based on spiritualism, or the mediumcy of the allegedly deceased and other spirits ... and it's core patterns are very similar to traditional psychic abuse which generally traps individuals, keeping their addicted in order to exploit them for money, on the basis of predictions and assurances that never come true.
I've always said that it I was an evil spirit that wanted to entrap humanity, I would not come wearing a red cloak with a tail and horns being nasty. No, I would appear to you as an Angel of Light, apparently high minded and noble, I would tell you 9 truths ... and then on the 10th, I would lie to you and trap you and by that own your soul. I would start to set you to experience difficulties, and then appear to be the one who could save you from those difficulties. I seemingly offer you everything I had for free, and then gradually turn the screws until you were giving me everything you had and asking for more and more as the only way out ... and, I tell you, by doing so I'd be able to entrap a fair sized proportion of the population. I'd predict things no one could disprove or prove and when they failed, I distract you with another even bigger prediction and ensure it would happen ... if only you gave more.
And that is, exactly what is going on in BKism.
But there is something in the meditation that is like or triggers drug-like reactions in the spirit/brain. Some kind of "spiritual injection" we don't quite understand ... and that is a term the god spirit of the BKs has literally used.
Psychic dependency is a dependency on psychic or spiritualist mediums; "fortune readers", psychic call lines or spiritualist churches and centres, that many individuals suffer from. Generally they do so at vulnerable times in their lives, e.g. after a death, during periods of lovelessness or loneliness, illness or confusion.
Again, all basically identical in experience to many or most BKs' adherence, e.g. I remember reading Neville Hodgkinson story about his becoming hooked after an illness that threatened his life and made him question it.
Commentators on psychic dependency consider it generally happens when individuals feeling overwhelmed by life and the world around them, when they don't know where to turn, what to do or what life is all about. They seek spiritual promises and guidance.
Good and intuitive advice can be helpful when you need to make a decision. However, it becomes problematic when you feel as though you cannot make any decision without running it by a psychic. Within the BKWSU, replace "psychic" with "Senior Sister" or "sister-in-charge". BKism is based on psychic mediumship of various forms, mostly the trance mediumship or channeling of spirits, but many BK Sisters will claim to have, or claim the Dadis have, intuitive powers to receive direct guidance from god or their deceased founder and enjoy playing guru or guide to other BKs, generally newcomers or vulnerable individuals despite for a "sign" or help.
BKism even goes further to encourage an infantile dependency on the senior Sisters and their "Shrimat" rather than learning to trust one's own intuitions or accumulated experience which they portray as Maya-like, unreliable "manmat", or the advice of others, especially non-BK others, even if they are experts, e.g. doctors, therapists, other religionists, non-BK family. The individual become completely separated from the non-BK world.
A common thread in psychic dependency is that the adherents lose a lot of money, even their properties, to the mediums they become addicted upon.
So too BKism.
Addicts chasing psychic after psychic for validation or consolations similar to how some BKs seek advice or meetings with their Dadis and look to the Murlis for mystical answers to their problems ... they are actually taught to believe that their Baba is speaking to them personally via stream of consciousness rambles original spoken to a group of 50 or so old ladies 50 years ago! Typically, psychic addicts become trapped in cycles of "just going back for one more reading" and actually being exploited based on their fears, fears with BKism even exaggerate in individuals' minds during "just one more year of BKism".
It is said reputable therapists, psychics or gurus all share the same principles, they will never make decisions for you. BK leaders will even play on this, posing BKism as "your choice" ... however, having previously limited down the number of possible choices you might be able to make based on fear or hypnotic suggestion (brainwashing).
One hook, addictive psychics exploit is individuals desire to wanting to know the purpose or outcome of life.
BKism, with its 'back of a postcard' sized philosophy, answer ... or rather plugs ... these questions;
- Who am I?
Who is God?
What is the purpose of life?
Why do bad things happen to me?
How can I make them stop?
People developing psychic dependency generally consider that the worst thing is not knowing and they have a craving to know ... to be sure. And, I would add, a small percentage have a craving to be seen as the deliverer of knowing too ... a guru complex which the psychologically narcissistic (a technical term) are immediately attracted to as it feeds their egos and gives power over others.