Young, Gifted & Black in the BKWSU ...
Posted: 03 Dec 2016
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Independent thought about the Brahma Kumaris World Spiritual University for those wishing to leave, and friends and family of followers
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http://www.brahmakumaris.info/forum/viewtopic.php?f=20&t=892
"Did I experience a heightened spiritual awareness and gain any spiritual wisdom whilst studying Gyan?"
Pink Panther wrote:Onthor, why the equivocation?
Maybe some simpler, more direct questions may help garner clarity.
Are you young, gifted or black?
What was the ethno-cultural makeup of the centre, zone you were part of as a BK?
With the ‘positive’ attitude you practiced, was what you saw of what was going on around you the same as what someone with a disinterested, objective view would see, i.e. someone not practicing ”soul consciousness” (or whatever shorthand term we use) or any other ”predetermined” consciousness would see?
Did you "brush off” any slights directed at you or at others as ”drama” or ”their sanskaras”? Or none occurred?
If all was hunky dory, we’ll just 'move along, nothing to see here’ (as the policeman said to the spectators gathered around the car crash).
anonymous BK wrote:I recall a youngish, attractive South African female politician, quite close to Mandela, who was having real angst about Karmic theory as presented by BK, in an African context ... she felt that karmic theory confirmed the black races [were a] failure, given that the black races were the poorest, so to be black was, ipso facto, to be the worst kind of 'Shudra' ... and inherent in that was a strong streak of White/Indian racism.
Well observed I thought at the time. She used to come to the Oxford programs in the 1990s ...
Clarke Peters spoke not wrote:I loved the classics without knowing that those roles were limited for a soul locked in a dark body.
The opportunities weren’t there.” It’s a problem he encountered repeatedly.
onthor wrote:With all due respect ex-l these sorts of questions can be said to reveal a degree of body-consciousness that is not reflective of the spiritual tenets of Gyan as I know them to be. Are you playing devil's advocate? Or are we to see these queries as a stark revelation of the saying that "many are called but few are chosen"? ... ex-l it is abundantly clear (to my way of 'seeing') that you do not have any clue how spiritually attuned the African really is.