Why did I believe? Simple - because it appeared to work. The meditations were like nothing on earth and my experiences in, say, Christian churches did not even remotely come close. There had to be something true about it. I did not buy the 5000 year stuff but it is interesting that many people here are quiet willing to accept the official scientific explanation even though they may never have even looked into it and probably have no scientific background. That too is blind faith of a different sort. I know the earth is round - there are so many pictures. But how do I know the earth is 4.5 billions years old? I have to take the word of a bunch of geologists etc. Not saying they are wrong but I must rely on faith.
Now Scientists are human, they gloss over irregularities when it suits them. Just look at global warming. What is the real truth there? Lots of dollars to be made by believing it - for sure. So unless you are yourself an expert in those areas, you must rely on the word of others.
Recently we have just found out that a doctor faked the results showing a connection between Autism and the triple MMR that babies get. I now have heard that you can eat as many eggs as you like ... Now I hear astronomers saying there could be billions of earth like planets (when I was young we were firmly told that was nonsense).
It goes on ... I have a firm scientific background and am an educator of scientists! (actually engineers but same thing for applied science). I am willing to bet that our understanding of the Universe is very simplistic indeed and will change with time as it always has. Multiverses, time-travel and so on. Fiction now maybe but ... ?
Now, back to the 5000 year stuff. I was told time and time again that the earth was not 5000 years old (by the BKs). That the earth was infinitely old in fact but it was the repeating drama that took place on it that was 5000 years old. Bit of a difference. I still did not swallow it of course - I needed proof. The meditation on the other hand was proof in itself. It definitely worked. I did not want to throw out the baby with the bathwater. As for sexual abusers etc ... nonsense. It happens everywhere, it's not as if Dadi Janki was ******** the Brothers now, was it! Weakness in a few and everybody gets tarred.
I am not a great fan of the Catholic church but even I know that all priests are not child abusers.
C.
Now Scientists are human, they gloss over irregularities when it suits them. Just look at global warming. What is the real truth there? Lots of dollars to be made by believing it - for sure. So unless you are yourself an expert in those areas, you must rely on the word of others.
Recently we have just found out that a doctor faked the results showing a connection between Autism and the triple MMR that babies get. I now have heard that you can eat as many eggs as you like ... Now I hear astronomers saying there could be billions of earth like planets (when I was young we were firmly told that was nonsense).
It goes on ... I have a firm scientific background and am an educator of scientists! (actually engineers but same thing for applied science). I am willing to bet that our understanding of the Universe is very simplistic indeed and will change with time as it always has. Multiverses, time-travel and so on. Fiction now maybe but ... ?
Now, back to the 5000 year stuff. I was told time and time again that the earth was not 5000 years old (by the BKs). That the earth was infinitely old in fact but it was the repeating drama that took place on it that was 5000 years old. Bit of a difference. I still did not swallow it of course - I needed proof. The meditation on the other hand was proof in itself. It definitely worked. I did not want to throw out the baby with the bathwater. As for sexual abusers etc ... nonsense. It happens everywhere, it's not as if Dadi Janki was ******** the Brothers now, was it! Weakness in a few and everybody gets tarred.
I am not a great fan of the Catholic church but even I know that all priests are not child abusers.
C.