My comment was meant more ironically, given the BKs' predilection to fake news themselves, & given this time the accused "faker" was clearly right. I never actually meant Gulzar in person, you've spoken about her fairly positively in the past (on an individual level) and her relationsh...
It's a serious issues that the entire religion is in denial about. Indeed, I would argue that IT IS THE RELIGION! By which I mean, making whatever **** up you want, then changing it, & no one saying a word about it. There is zero accountability about matters that are supposed to "Godly"...
Dadi Gulzar.jpg 3 weeks after the Brahma Kumaris announced that Dadi Gulzarji’s health is gradually improving in order to fight "fake news", Gulzar dies . As the only official "medium of god", her passing signifies a major changing for the BKs. Will it mean a new spirit medium i...
Looking at the lens we see the world through ... an interesting paper that cannot not relate to core of adherence to Brahma Kumarism. Link to actual paper is in indented quotation. People with extremist views less able to do complex mental tasks A Cambridge University team led by Leor Zmigrod sought...
Meanwhile, in ComplaintBoard.In we continue to read of just such cases . avi.sharmakh Aug 28, 2020 About BK. Shivani fraud with souls and do her business only for the sole benefit and take control on them for use them target hidden in her mind and This is absolutely truth that Brahma Kumaris are doi...
Home Box Office (HBO) India labelled the Brahma Kumaris a Cult to send a shiver down your spine in an embarrassing post they later removed. The post was meant for the promotion of the upcoming premiere of the 2019 film Doctor Sleep on the channel. Interest litmus test on the general public's opinion...
I'll blame the mother. You'll probably find she is in the BKs, knew the whole deal about celibacy & incompatibility, but the Father wanted her to be married to have a man to look after her. Something like that. The question is, how conscious & complicit are the BKs in all this? In one case I...
If we do the maths, married in 1933, relationship started to fail 24 years later. What do we estimate, aged 45 years old? Marriage fails do to influence of the Brahma Kumaris, then BKs win by getting a full-time paid worker on a middle class manager's wage paid by the husband. If she "surrender...
Apologies, my 2009 "road warrior" Macbook Pro finally died a death due to a dodgy third party cable before Xmas, so I've been unable to post & keep up with maintenance until now, only just having gotten the hard drive out, data copied over, & most passwords retrieved ... to a "...
This is a new one. A newly married BK would not consumate her marriage from the very first night, so her husband files for divorce. The BK's response is, she wants her dowry & jewellery back. And maintenance of Rs.30,000/- per month! The couple were married in Goa, in October 2010 and the ma...
Nothing changes, nothing new under the sun, how many years have we been reporting such cases? What makes this one interesting is the date ... 9 February 1968 , about a case dating back to 1957, while founder Lekhraj Kirpalani was still alive. Indeed, only a year or two after the re-invention of the ...
One of the author discusses the research, here; THE FINE LINE BETWEEN SPIRITUALITY AND NARCISSISM: SPIRITUAL SELF-ENHANCEMENT . Spiritual gurus and journalists have written about this pitfall of spiritual narcissism—the “I am more enlightened than you” phenomenon. But spiritual narcissism had never ...
An Exploration of Spiritual Superiority: The Paradox of Self-Enhancement science Roos Vonk, Radboud University Nijmegen Anouk Visser, Radboud University Nijmegen Abstract Spiritual training is assumed to reduce self-enhancement, but may have the paradoxical effect of boosting superiority feelings. ...