Beyond highly active gossip networks, the BKWSU has always spent considerable amounts of its leaders' time and financial resources on information gathering or surveillance of its followers via center-in-charges directly or using the phone and now special closed and secure internet channels.
Most of this goes behind the scenes from newcomers and low ranking or part-time BKs.
In the past, and still at least in India, this includes the encouragement and reading of confessional letters, the keeping of detailed hourly diaries, aka "charts, which are later shown to leaders and, in the early days, group confessional or "courts" in which spirit mediums exposed the weaknesses and sins of followers.
Such surveillance states are bring put in place to keep their subjects captive.
The Kirpalani Klan goes even further ...
And yet they claim to be offering "liberation in life" ... presumably as a reward in the next 21 births for one or two lives of slavery now.
In the movie above, there is another great quote from Voltaire ...
Or as the BKs might say, who you must show unquestioning "respect" for.
Given, it's all done with "subtle" social pressures ... from the senior Sisters on their throne, to behind the scenes whispering campaigns ... but it still all goes on and more including the use of spirit mediums allegedly informed by the deceased Lekhraj Kirpalani or God himself.
Scientific research has shown individuals' behaviour is modified even when they just *think* they are being watched. dBKs are lead to believe their every thought, never mind action, could be being surveyed and will be replayed come their Judgement Day in from of their topmost leaders.
Most of this goes behind the scenes from newcomers and low ranking or part-time BKs.
In the past, and still at least in India, this includes the encouragement and reading of confessional letters, the keeping of detailed hourly diaries, aka "charts, which are later shown to leaders and, in the early days, group confessional or "courts" in which spirit mediums exposed the weaknesses and sins of followers.
if I know every single thing about you,what you think,
and you know nothing about me because I am shield my behaviour behind a wall of secrecy ... I have incredible power over you.
how you reason,
what your fears are,
what you are planning,
what you are doing
The power imbalance between us is immense because ...I can now manipulate you,
I can threaten you,
I can alter your behaviour in all sorts of ways,
I can anticipate your behaviour,
I can prevent you from doing things you are planning,
I can prepare in defence of what you are doing,
I can always stay many steps ahead of you
- Glen Greenwald, Pulitzer Prize Winner Journalist, on surveillance state.
From 'The Hacker Wars' (2014)
Such surveillance states are bring put in place to keep their subjects captive.
The Kirpalani Klan goes even further ...
- They tell their adherents what to think,
They tell their adherents how to reason and not to (and shuns, criticises or forbids other influences),
They focus their adherents' fears with images of Destruction and inescapable eternal cycles (fail this time and you'll fail forever!) and social pressures suc as labelling or outcasting,
They direct their adherents' planning,
and their lifestyle determines what their adherents are doing even 24 hours a day (... including monitoring their dreams for "impurity"!)
And yet they claim to be offering "liberation in life" ... presumably as a reward in the next 21 births for one or two lives of slavery now.
In the movie above, there is another great quote from Voltaire ...
To find out who rules you, find the people you may not criticise.
Or as the BKs might say, who you must show unquestioning "respect" for.
Given, it's all done with "subtle" social pressures ... from the senior Sisters on their throne, to behind the scenes whispering campaigns ... but it still all goes on and more including the use of spirit mediums allegedly informed by the deceased Lekhraj Kirpalani or God himself.
Scientific research has shown individuals' behaviour is modified even when they just *think* they are being watched. dBKs are lead to believe their every thought, never mind action, could be being surveyed and will be replayed come their Judgement Day in from of their topmost leaders.