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GuptaRati 6666 wrote:The probability is decreased when other factors are considered, including spiritual revolutions.
How to change the course of human history
The story we have been telling ourselves about our origins is wrong, and perpetuates the idea of inevitable social inequality.
The evidence before our eyes, if we choose to look at it ... Egalitarian cities, even regional confederacies, are historically quite commonplace. Egalitarian families and households are not.
Once the historical verdict is in, we will see that the most painful loss of human freedoms began at the small scale – the level of gender relations, age groups, and domestic servitude – the kind of relationships that contain at once the greatest intimacy and the deepest forms of structural violence.
If we really want to understand how it first became acceptable for some to turn wealth into power, and for others to end up being told their needs and lives don’t count, it is here that we should look.
For centuries, we have been telling ourselves a simple story about the origins of social inequality. For most of their history, humans lived in tiny egalitarian bands of hunter-gatherers. Then came farming, which brought with it private property, and then the rise of cities which meant the emergence of civilization properly speaking. Civilization meant many bad things (wars, taxes, bureaucracy, patriarchy, slavery…) but also made possible written literature, science, philosophy, and most other great human achievements.
Almost everyone knows this story in its broadest outlines. Since at least the days of Jean-Jacques Rousseau, it has framed what we think the overall shape and direction of human history to be. This is important because the narrative also defines our sense of political possibility. Most see civilization, hence inequality, as a tragic necessity. Some dream of returning to a past utopia, of finding an industrial equivalent to ‘primitive communism’, or even, in extreme cases, of destroying everything, and going back to being foragers again. But no one challenges the basic structure of the story.
There is a fundamental problem with this narrative.
It isn’t true.
ex-l wrote:Overwhelming evidence from archaeology, anthropology, and kindred disciplines is beginning to give us a fairly clear idea of what the last 40,000 years of human history really looked likea, challenging our preconceptions about human evolution and specifically the idea of inevitable social inequality.
Rajdhani wrote:I guess this 5000 year myth alone is sufficient to crush all other baseless theories ... Some 20 years ago, I read in newspaper that they removed Darwin's theory of evolution in US school text books. Not sure if it is still the case even today.
ex-l wrote:What is notable among Western educated BKs is they often borrow or steal the strategies and tactics of the Christian Fundamentalist to defend the BK worldview, eg using arguments to discredit carbon dating. I suspect Indian BK copy them ... Such arguments began with BK Jagdish Chander, who depended on Victorian or prior examples to do so (19th C).
Rajdhani wrote:The problem is people at BK are so hard wired, they still cling on other assuring factors and neglect the clinching evidences right in front of them.
ex-l wrote: I suspect Indian BK copy them.
Rajdhani wrote:Yeah, I remember, Jagdish Chander had written one big fat book called Eternal World Drama. May be I will get a copy of it ...
the Social category are the most idealistic people and according to my interpretation. They are also somewhat, indirectly, submissive because they believe in idealistic society, which is a boon for BKs.
Rajdhani wrote:they have a dedicated website http://bksparc.in/. SpARC stands for Spiritual Applications Research Centre.
SpARC wrote:Is 'Brahma Kumaris' Institution a religious organization ?
We are not confined to any religion, people from all religions, professions, caste-creed join the organization, for spiritual upliftment of oneself, with the help of value education & Meditation training imparted here.
ABSTRACT
Context: Raj Yoga is the supreme or the highest Yoga that empowers the self to rule the mind, sense-organs and the body. There are several psychological benefits incurred by raj-yoga which have not been highlighted due to scarcity of scientific studies.
Aims: The present study examined the effect of duration of Raj Yoga Meditation practice on affective & cognitive functions in terms of attention/concentration, memory, visual processing, neuroticism, hope and happiness. Materials and Methods: Sixty- four healthy volunteers practicing Raj Yoga from 1 month to more than 10 years were segregated into two groups of beginners and practitioners and their psychological and affective functions assessed using standard measures at a Raj Yoga Centre in Delhi, India.
Results and Conclusions: Results suggest that the group practicing Raj Yoga for longer duration had significantly less neurotic symptoms, scored higher on hope and happiness and higher on cognitive functions in comparison to the group practicing Raj Yoga for shorter duration. These results may be due to personality development, self-actualization and better attention and concentration achieved due to training in Raj Yoga.
Key-words: Raj Yoga, Affective & Cognitive Functions
INTRODUCTION
The word „Raj‟ means the king, sovereign or the supreme. Raj Yoga is the supreme or the highest Yoga that empowers the self to rule the mind, sense-organs and the body. Raj-Yoga also implies that even a person who is a king and who is very busy can practice it, as this practice does not involve any acts of austerities or penances or
renouncing one‟s household. Raj-Yoga meditation is different from all other forms of meditation; although contemplation, reflection, imagination, concentration, etc. are employed in its practice.
ex-l wrote:INTRODUCTION
The word „Raj‟ means the king, sovereign or the supreme. Raj Yoga is the supreme or the highest Yoga that ... as this practice does not involve any acts of austerities or penances or renouncing one's household.
ex-l wrote:Your socialistic observation, I have questioned before ... the strange contrast between a generally Left Wing/Liberal leaning following; and the BK leadership's Right Wing autocratic tendencies and political associations.
Rajdhani wrote:I wonder if all these "Yukthis" are taught to them in Mt Abu bhattis?
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