Mr Green wrote:i feel glad to say in all my time as a BK i never felt convinced by The Cycle, what a load of twaddle
I have to say that I agree with you. Not just on the length but also on the primary school level logic that is applied to how such a transformation could take place.
Do you remember, the pictures of Krishna sitting on top of a cut out India floating alone in the middle of a global ocean with all the charred bones of nuked Billions and chopped up Hindus from the bloodbaths of India pressumably neatly swept under the carpets or washed away under the sea?
Like you, I was willing to put aside my reserves about this and other parts of The Knowledge because I wanted to believe in the BKs on the basis of the example of a spiritual community that they gave, i.e. harmonious, peaceful, vegetarian, no smokers, no drinking, very disciplined in comparison to other groups.
To be honest, I did not really believe in " The Knowledge ". It is ridiculous and the intellectual basis for it within the community of BKs, especially the Seniors, is none existant. My feeling is that it is just a well designed series of mental plugs intended to shut enough of the mind down in order that it be used for the psychic channelling of whatever the so-called Shiva is up to.
One cannot " know " it is true, one can only suspend disbelief and invest faith in it gambling that it might be true.
We all know that there was "
The Dinosaur Question ". That probably did not matter to the Bharatwasis, they probably did not know such things existed anyway.
What is interesting is that in order to continue believing, I had to create for myself my own private " sub-beliefs " to sustain faith in the organisation.
I used to ask simple questions such as, " if there are an unlimited number of Cycles and each cycle a man goes off to the moon and plants a flag [ to say nothing of the hundreds of tonnes of space junk being launched into outer space ], how is it that slowly all the resources on Plant Earth used to make them do not slowly diminish away to nothing? " How do they get the flag on the moon back? Why are the foot prints not still there when Neil Armstrong arrives? How is all the space junk recovered and put back in place for the next Cycle?
Of course, it cannot be, so there has to be another answer. What is it ...
and why could it not be asked?
At this point the B.K. starts to be confronted by the less than subtle mind control within the BKWSU. The answers that you are given, the peer and senior pressure, is to put you down for asking. To shut you up and stop you rocking the boat. I can remember some very public humiliations at the hands of the Seniors. Even the so called " God " of B.K. would not give an answer.
You are " not answered ", told " just have more Yoga " ... " remember Baba " ... " spin The Cycle ". It was infantile or infantising [ if there is such a word ] garbage. Worse, if you started to come up with some theories either scientific or mystical. That was then " Manmat " and you immediately became an untrustworthy pariah or were reduced to being a " character ". Belief in Manmat, thinking independently, was death for the soul and death within the community.
Only those that dumbed down happily and towed the party line were rewarded.