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I have a friend who was a BK for a few years. I am interested to know a few things ...
I am informed by my friend that he learned to see a light emanating from teacher's foreheads etc and that he can see this light due to his "special powers" ... i don't buy this, obviously, and view it as a lie or self-delusion. I could be wrong ... but I am not.
I've read that students will sit in a dark room for a long while, facing his teacher, who has some kind of sphere above/behind his head, lit by a bulb, emitting a glow. The centre has a small hole which emits a bright white light against the glow of the 'orb'. This apparently represents Shiv Baba. The student stares intensly into the teachers eyes or forehead, while devotional hymns are played in the background. The student is told to imagine himself as pure energy, bodiless, as power, as light, bathed in the love of the supreme. Apparently and unsurprisingly, many students experience visual hallucinations involving lights. He tells me he has a power to see these things ... utter BS.
So, it's pretty straight forward, no? What i wonder is why this ex-BK decides to try to dupe people with obvious lies? It goes further ... the whole set up is lie upon lie.
The member i know spent a good few years practicing and left friends and family etc behind him like pieces of used up trash. So, one would think that following all this spiritual tuition and godliness, something would've stuck; some kind of honesty, integrity, whatever. Because i've known this chap for many, many years, i know about pieces of his life. There is petty lie piled upon lie, simple untruths concerning private matters, not BK matters ... absolutely ridiculous claims & lies concerning trivial BS,
So why, after he left the BKs, did he suddenly forget how to be honest & seemingly increased the levels of silly petty lies? Or perhaps this was always the case and the BKs taught him nothing but pretentiousness, and how to try to impress people with lies.
My friends (?), my point is this; what good has it done? The man cannot even speak truthfully to his own kind.
I am informed by my friend that he learned to see a light emanating from teacher's foreheads etc and that he can see this light due to his "special powers" ... i don't buy this, obviously, and view it as a lie or self-delusion. I could be wrong ... but I am not.
I've read that students will sit in a dark room for a long while, facing his teacher, who has some kind of sphere above/behind his head, lit by a bulb, emitting a glow. The centre has a small hole which emits a bright white light against the glow of the 'orb'. This apparently represents Shiv Baba. The student stares intensly into the teachers eyes or forehead, while devotional hymns are played in the background. The student is told to imagine himself as pure energy, bodiless, as power, as light, bathed in the love of the supreme. Apparently and unsurprisingly, many students experience visual hallucinations involving lights. He tells me he has a power to see these things ... utter BS.
So, it's pretty straight forward, no? What i wonder is why this ex-BK decides to try to dupe people with obvious lies? It goes further ... the whole set up is lie upon lie.
The member i know spent a good few years practicing and left friends and family etc behind him like pieces of used up trash. So, one would think that following all this spiritual tuition and godliness, something would've stuck; some kind of honesty, integrity, whatever. Because i've known this chap for many, many years, i know about pieces of his life. There is petty lie piled upon lie, simple untruths concerning private matters, not BK matters ... absolutely ridiculous claims & lies concerning trivial BS,
So why, after he left the BKs, did he suddenly forget how to be honest & seemingly increased the levels of silly petty lies? Or perhaps this was always the case and the BKs taught him nothing but pretentiousness, and how to try to impress people with lies.
My friends (?), my point is this; what good has it done? The man cannot even speak truthfully to his own kind.