cfile6 wrote:Do most BKs/all BKs believe that Lekhraj Kirpalani was God?
I agree everyone on the otherside would be laughing their heads off ...
Strictly speaking, no, the BKs do not teach or believe that Lekhraj Kirpalani is God but for the first 16 to 18 years at least, from about 1932/6 until around 1950, they most certainly did believe Lekhraj Kirpalani was God and Brahma. Only after did they introduce the idea of a God Shiva possessing Lekhraj Kirpalani and speaking through him. Then they buried all their old materials, moved, and re-wrote their history and philosophy. We have never heard the true story from them.
At best, I like to think of their God or spirits as trickster spirits fooling their followers in order to teach them ... and the lesson is not to follow, not to surrender, not to believe in things you cannot see and know. To leave and go back to practical life is to pass. Some people prefer to argue that there are no spirits involved in the BKWSU, that there are no such thing as spirits, but I think it is a useful model by which to understand the BKWSU. The BKWSU is a 'spiritualist' cult, not a 'spiritual' cult. It is based on 'spiritualism' (psychism) and has all the failings and foibles of spiritualism.
Mr Green wrote:If the BKs ever managed to woo true celebrities like Tom Cruise, they too would have as much public controversy.
I reckon that the BKWSU in the West is so badly marked they will never pull any real celebrities. Unfortunately, from a PR point of view, I think they were all rather too keen to jump into bed with and suck up to any B, C, D ... Z list celebrity and now no real one would touch them. Even celebrities went to school and learnt about dinosaurs. May be not in India, but anywhere in the West, yes. Real people have become far too cult savvy these days.
Who did they catch ... ? The wrong BeeGee (an old ex-disco pop star), who backfired on them by fathering a child to his Asian housekeeper while his bi-sexual druid wife recited poetry at their events ... and Lynne Franks.