Pink Panther wrote:Aidan was not a scotsman he was from, I think Worcestershire ... I think Stuart Hepburn, a Scotsman, went to the Americas, maybe to help start stuff in Mexico?
Thanks. Yes, that's is who I am thinking about. But much worse than testes, he actually 'grew a beard' which I think was part of his final downfall.
We used to joke about it in the past. I don't know what Janki Kirpalani had against men in beards but it came up time and time again. Perhaps, along with all the rest of her unresolved psychologies, her ex-husband had a beard?
I don't know ... even as a BK, I would never have expected to get the truth out of her about such things ... anything in fact.
I remember Ian in Scotland had a sprout business in Scotland. I don't know if he ever went to the USA but he died in Scotland too. Terrible car accident.
Maureen, was the lady who seemed to be imitating Jayanti and thought her Margaret Thatcher vocalizations would impress the American folks.
Poor Maureen, what a nervous road wreck herself. Watching and listening to her used to be a charity on behalf of the audience.
Perhaps the yugya's first "kept women" in the West whose position was based almost entirely on her BK dentist husband David Goodman's ability to financially support her, a centre, and BK service.
You see here the BKs modus operandi where,
a) Money always comes first, and
b) Where stopping couples from breeding and having a family frees up huge financial and time resources, that the Brahma Kumaris can then feed off.
But, it's worth remember that Maureen Goodman was only 21, and newly wed, when
she was hooked in 1976.
As a Jewess, I am going to guess she had very little really life experience outside of BKism (I am going to guess here that her family background was protective, and already separated from general British society).
It's off topic for here, however, given her central role in BK British service and the development of BKism in the West, I'd say it was fair to document and analyse more. Topic,
here. As she says her family married in Calcutta, I am wondering if they were
Baghdadi Jews (interesting site about Jewish Calcutta). Her features would suggest so.
I don't see any immediate intersections between them and BKism, or the Sindhis in Calcutta, but I imagine the coincidence of connection was part of what pulled her in.
Back to the USA ... unfortunately, I never visited the BKs there.
How and when did the UNO connection happen?