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| − | Welcome to BrahmaKumaris.info - an independent information service regarding the work, beliefs and lifestyle of The Brahma Kumaris World Spiritual Organisation, organisers of Raja Yoga Centers.
| + | ===Who are we?=== |
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| − | BrahmaKumaris.info is volunteer run collaboration of ex-members of The Brahma Kumaris World Spiritual Organisation. It is impartial, independent and non-doctrinal. | + | * '''BrahmaKumaris.info''' is a volunteer run collaboration between ex-members of '''The Brahma Kumaris World Spiritual University'''. It is impartial and non-doctrinal. |
| | + | * '''BrahmaKumaris.info''' is intended as an honest, educated, accurate and detailed look at this growing international movement, its leaders; and the effects of the lifestyle promoted by its leaders onto its members, ex-members and their friends and family. |
| | + | * Contributors to '''BrahmaKumaris.Info''' have had many years experience, worldwide, within the organization of '''The Brahma Kumaris World Spiritual University''' [ BKWSU ], also known as '''The Brahma Kumaris World Spiritual Organization''' or '''Prajapita BrahmaKumaris Ishwariya Vishwa Vidyalaya'''. Many have lived in centres, been teachers of '''Raja Yoga''', organisers and sponsors of activities. |
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| − | BrahmaKumaris.info is intended as an honest, educated, accurate and detailed look at this growing international organisation ; its leaders and the effects of the lifestyle promoted by the leaders onto its members, ex-members and their friends and family.
| + | For more information, see [[http://www.brahmakumaris.info BrahmaKumaris.Info]] |
| − | | + | For links to the official Brahma Kumaris' websites, see ; [[http://www.brahmakumaris.com BrahmaKumaris.Com]] or [[http://www.bkwsu.org BKWSU.Org]]. |
| − | Contributors to BrahmaKumaris.info have had many years experience, worldwide, within the organisation of The Brahma Kumaris World Spiritual Organisation [ BKWSO ], also known as The Brahma Kumaris World Spiritual University. Many have lived in centres, been teachers of Raja Yoga, organisers and sponsors of activities. The information presented here within is often not made publicly available by the BKWSO. Historical re-writing, not part of the current institute's public image, are documented as are a number of tragic events.
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| − | The process of indoctrination The Brahma Kumaris World Spiritual Organisation practise and call " Raja Yoga Meditiation " effects individuals, and those around them, at a very deep psychological level. It is not Raja Yoga, as classical understood by those practising and teaching yoga. The lifestyle demanded of members is desgined to separate and isolate them, physically and mentally, from most or all outside help and influences. Indeed, from other human beings.
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| − | BrahmaKumaris.info is a response to widespread needs of a support group for ex-members, and friends and family of ex-members, that are coming to terms with the effects of the cult-like nature of the group and the psychological influences individuals within it are put under. It was born out of a web-based discussion forum for ex-members called xbkchat [ http://www.xbkchat.com ]. It may serve individuals entering into a dependent relationship with the organisation.
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| − | The gradual nature of indoctrination within Brahma Kumaris Raja Yoga leads individuals, draw in by the ' soft sell ' of peace of mind or promise of personal growth, to a state of mind and position of dependency where they are willing to put aside reason and surrender themselves to the will of senior members. In this state, individuals are vulnerable to manipulation and take on many new unproven beliefs unquestioningly.
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| − | At the point of the failure in these beliefs, or the failure in trust of those senior practioners, ex-members are almost without any social support mechanism and are very unoften inable to accept the help even of professionals who have not gone through the same experience.
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| − | It is hoped that this website is a useful resource for members, potential members and ex-members of Brahma Kumaris' Raja Yoga Centers.
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| − | We are not cult-bashers, born-again Christians, academic sociologists nor do we actually have any alternative way of life to offer you. But we hope at least to help you make informed decisions about what you allow others to do your innermost being based on objective facts rather than P.R. and publicity materials. We also wish to document the history of the organisation and historical revisionism from within the organisation that is gradually changing it.
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| − | BrahmaKumaris.info may also be useful for those interested in cults, spiritual groups and spirituality, New Religious Movements, enlightenment and self-individualisation in general.
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