31 May 2007
Hello Proy,
As I said somewhat cryptically in my initial post, I classed myself as an "irregular BK" student for around 6 years, and therefore was not a fully committed BK in the same sense as you were. So on registering with the forum, this led me to choose NBK (which is non-specific) when presented with the list of "BK, ex-BK, PBK, Friends & Family of, other" which BKinfo Admin translated as non-BK. However, I am more comfortable with that than ex-BK ...
To answer your 2nd question: I've had Anglicanism subtly in the background since early childhood and reconnected with that strand of Christianity when I was going through my mid-life crisis 7-8 years ago.
Some time later, I came into contact with the BK and took the foundation course on a 1-to-1 basis with a very special head of centre. I'd like to be clear that I learnt a lot from my relationship with the BK, had some very strong experiences, met some very good, decent people and some very powerful yogi souls.
On the other hand, there has also been some confusion and quite negative experiences, which I now attribute to being in no-man's land between the two faiths (and I do see "BK-ism" as a faith). As I said, this led me to spend the last few months deciding on how to proceed with my main spiritual practice and have decided to switch to activities centred around our local churches, which are a mixture of modern/evangelical and traditional/liberal, if that means anything to you ...
Very best wishes