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Are these scientists who believe in "the soul", as the BKs present it, as a starting point? You name check "quantum physics", but would an attempt to fit "the soul" into that framework not just be a further extension of materialism, rather than accepting to be some othe...

What or where's the current state of art/argument with regards consciousness, or "soul", its creation or existence? Or is it still a taboo area and a question of faith? I always thought it was the weakest/most difficult argument science had, to theorise that consciousness somehow magically...

I have not taken time to listen to all of the audio yet but rate of expansion in studies and papers jumped out at me. When we were BKs, there'd literally be just a handful of them and they were definitely way out there in "crank science" territory. The other thing was a throwaway line abou...

From: The Science of Meditation: A Conversation , Sam Harris speaking with Daniel Goleman and Richard J. Davidson. The authors have done both science on the subject and an meta-analysis of other works. Interesting to note they mention the existence of about 6,000 papers on the topic of which 60 they...

I do recall Sudesh, forbidding an prominent Indian-American BK Sister from conducting morning meditation because the Indian-American Sister was experiencing her period. How would she even know? I ask that to underline how far the BK leaders go in crossing adherents' personal boundary lines . It app...

There are a few non-BK papers about the topic. What comes up a lot is how even talking about menstruation is a taboo, eg Menstruation related myths in India: strategies for combating it , Suneela Garg and Tanu Anand. J Family Med Prim Care (2015), and Exploration of the foundation of menstrual taboo...

During periods, one was not allowed to offer Bhog ... I offered Bhog especially when I had my periods :). I don't think 'Baba' got angry at me. I can imagine Lekhraj Kirpalani was blushing a little ... Accepted things used to be much more orthodox and disciplined. You decide whether that was better...

Self-proclaimed supreme and global Masters of the Ocean of Knowledge™, the Brahma Kumaris might do well to consider the 'Earned Dogmatism Hypothesis' [Ottati, Price, Wilson, and Sumaktoyo (2015)]. The Earned Dogmatism Hypothesis is that social norms entitle so called experts to behave in a closed-mi...

Do you think there has been a change in the quality and nature of the male adherents supporting the Kumaris now? It's purely an anecdotal impression for me but in the early days, they attracted a hippy, new agey, traveller type (of Western males). Now I get the feeling there are a lot more nerdy, IT...

OK, I'll stand corrected and suggest "intellectuall lazy", as in not checking the facts. How would you better define them? Middle class social climbers? Fantasists, egotists? Is it a big thing for them to think of themselves as the true "Brahmins" or "rajyogis"? Somethi...

History is generally always complicated, extensive and messy and it's clear that Lekhraj Kirpalani liked and offered simplistic order and symmetry in his thinking. One might ask why? The problem is, people, we all as BKs, invested ourselves, our sincerity but also our egos, in believe that it was al...

HEAD's UP: Murli Experiments begin on 1 July Murli Experiments’, an innovative addition to each day’s Murli, will be starting from 1 July. If nothing else, the Brahma Kumaris World Spiritual University's persistent inability to use apostrophes properly, is evidence enough for me that they are neith...

It's all demented, idiotically simplicist ****. I am sorry for being so blunt but it really is. It is irritating because it starts with a huge fallacy, a fallacy Lekhraj Kirpalani himself goes on to state is false, and gets worse from there. Question: If there is no such religion as HInduism, why wo...

Why do astronauts not have similar experiences in zero gravity?

I've never tried flotation tanks because when they existed, there was a business fad for them a while ago that's kind of moved on to something else, they were beyond my budget ... but I'd like to. I see the logic in reducing brain/neural stimulation simply caused by the effects of gravity/old age et...