Keeping in mind the 7 Day Course, or 7 Day Bhatti for that matter, I suprise that we have not looked at within the context of the 'Stockholm Syndrome".
In short, "Stockholm Syndrome" is a psychological response sometimes seen in an abducted hostages, in which the hostage can show signs of having feelings of loyalty to the hostage-taker, regardless of the danger or risk in which the hostage has been placed. Stockholm syndrome is also sometimes discussed in reference to other situations with similar tensions, such as battered person syndrome, child abuse cases, and bride kidnapping.
The syndrome is named after the Norrmalmstorg robbery of Kreditbanken at Norrmalmstorg, Stockholm, Sweden, in which the bank robbers held bank employees hostage in the summer of 1973. Four hostages were but at the end of their captivity, six days later, they actively resisted rescue. They refused to testify against their captors, raised money for their legal defense, and according to some reports one of the hostages eventually became engaged to one of her jailed captors.
This struck some academics as strange way of coping and as they started seeing more examples they named this class of strange behavior the "Stockholm Syndrome." Notorious in the United States is the case of Patty Hearst, who after being kidnapped and tortured by the Symbionese Liberation Army, took up arms and joined their cause, taking on the nom de guerre of "Tania" and helping the SLA rob banks. It typically takes about three or four days for the psychological shift to take hold.
I have been reading an evolutionary geneticist's hypothesis about why this happens, or why it is and has been a successful strategy for survival. That is to say, a large proportion of our, or society's genetic wealth is adopted to survival in this way. They put it down to in the past where there was a high likelihood of individuals/women mainly being kidnapped during tribal or racial raids, e.g. vikings, slavery, it was universal experience.
The gist was that it was a good idea to be able to adopt to a new tribal setting ... or else you would get killed ... but not a good idea to adopt too soon ... in case of rescue by your own tribe.
One could suggest that it is a key element in many cults' induction process and it may answer how many of find ourselves sucked up into such closed groups EVEN THOUGH we do not actually believe in their religion. Now, I am not saying that this is the totality of the BK Raja Yoga experience. As with the 'Hypnosis Hypothesis', I think these are components to the way in which Brahma-kumaris work. Note, I separate the Brahma-kumaris and their agenda from any reference to God or spirit because the two appear quite separate.
Ditto, in reverse. One might consider the negative reaction to the black sheep BK, or the sticking out nail from the Senior Sisters not a rational, spiritual, God inspired reaction but rather the reaciton of a captor to a hostage that will not settle down andjoint heir new tribe; e.g kill themoff of bannish them to the wilds (where death is more than likely assured anyway).
If you then consider the experience of the PBKs with regards to banishment, then it all starts to appear a lot more obvious and clear. Basic tribe sanskars mentality and nothing to do with God at all. Your thoughts ...
In short, "Stockholm Syndrome" is a psychological response sometimes seen in an abducted hostages, in which the hostage can show signs of having feelings of loyalty to the hostage-taker, regardless of the danger or risk in which the hostage has been placed. Stockholm syndrome is also sometimes discussed in reference to other situations with similar tensions, such as battered person syndrome, child abuse cases, and bride kidnapping.
The syndrome is named after the Norrmalmstorg robbery of Kreditbanken at Norrmalmstorg, Stockholm, Sweden, in which the bank robbers held bank employees hostage in the summer of 1973. Four hostages were but at the end of their captivity, six days later, they actively resisted rescue. They refused to testify against their captors, raised money for their legal defense, and according to some reports one of the hostages eventually became engaged to one of her jailed captors.
This struck some academics as strange way of coping and as they started seeing more examples they named this class of strange behavior the "Stockholm Syndrome." Notorious in the United States is the case of Patty Hearst, who after being kidnapped and tortured by the Symbionese Liberation Army, took up arms and joined their cause, taking on the nom de guerre of "Tania" and helping the SLA rob banks. It typically takes about three or four days for the psychological shift to take hold.
I have been reading an evolutionary geneticist's hypothesis about why this happens, or why it is and has been a successful strategy for survival. That is to say, a large proportion of our, or society's genetic wealth is adopted to survival in this way. They put it down to in the past where there was a high likelihood of individuals/women mainly being kidnapped during tribal or racial raids, e.g. vikings, slavery, it was universal experience.
The gist was that it was a good idea to be able to adopt to a new tribal setting ... or else you would get killed ... but not a good idea to adopt too soon ... in case of rescue by your own tribe.
One could suggest that it is a key element in many cults' induction process and it may answer how many of find ourselves sucked up into such closed groups EVEN THOUGH we do not actually believe in their religion. Now, I am not saying that this is the totality of the BK Raja Yoga experience. As with the 'Hypnosis Hypothesis', I think these are components to the way in which Brahma-kumaris work. Note, I separate the Brahma-kumaris and their agenda from any reference to God or spirit because the two appear quite separate.
Ditto, in reverse. One might consider the negative reaction to the black sheep BK, or the sticking out nail from the Senior Sisters not a rational, spiritual, God inspired reaction but rather the reaciton of a captor to a hostage that will not settle down andjoint heir new tribe; e.g kill themoff of bannish them to the wilds (where death is more than likely assured anyway).
If you then consider the experience of the PBKs with regards to banishment, then it all starts to appear a lot more obvious and clear. Basic tribe sanskars mentality and nothing to do with God at all. Your thoughts ...