hope1 wrote:p.s. who or what is the Calvin Chin referred to by Mike Peace?
Ah, he was just some young, amateur, web journalist who wrote about Yoga subjects. He took details from another article by Shumam Fasi that is still all over the internet, e.g.
here, about one of Hansa's seminars where it was reported she claimed that Raya Yoga could cure cancer. Do a Google on that and you will see.
I would say he was completely innocent. To have some bullnecked US military guys go and write letters to embassies and try and scare him ******* about the US military and being banned from owning .com or .info domains for life ... and of which was legal bollocks ... disgusted me. But if that is the sort of people the Brahma Kumaris hang out with ... what did Baba say about company coloring us?
In the original article Fasi said other experts said she her claims were "silly". I think in Chin's they said they were "kooky" ... and that was the start of the legal action on the basis of a 'personal libel' according to Simon Blandford of the BKWSU IT Team. The IT Team was involved with collating information to support her "personal action". I can certainly confirm such claims being made about the magic of BK Raja Yoga.
Raval's hypothesis was that "98 percent of all cancer is psychosomatic is the reason for [BK Raja Yoga's] success as a mode of treatment. She pointed out that this was not chanting or reciting mantras. Neither are scriptures its basis. It is not a cult or a biofeedback." I suppose if one accepts the psyche/karma theory the 98% figure is
conservative ... it should be 100%. The problem is, life is not so simple.
Jayanti and her side did not know about the legal action when it first went off, and may be not even Janki. Only months later was Raval able to get Karuna Shetty to sign up support for her, presumably after much lobbying in Madubhan ... but to my knowledge he is not even a trustee of the World Renewal Trust, just the Global Chief of PR and Multi-media aka voluntary worker. The whole escapade was loose, bogus and opportunistic on behalf of the BKWSU ... and those that did nothing to stop it are just as guilty. I am absolute sure that it was not universally supported within the leadership. I am sure Jayanti would not have been that dumb as to pull a metaphorical gun on us and fire it. I was told it even caused problems between Raval and Mohini ... BUT ... my experience is that you cannot trust what any of them says.
What makes it interesting it that it start to expose the inner workings of the cultic element within the Brahma Kumaris movement, how there is not the total unity, purity and oneness that we are sold or led to believe, and ... despite the millions they have sucked in and spent on self-promotions ... how it is all sort of amateur and tawdry.
Of course, it is my opinion, that if you do have money, especially as a center in charge, they are much more likely to support you rather than "do the right thing". Or do the right and obvious thing ... starting with dialogue. We heard nothing from Texas - except for
Mike Peace's hardly veiled threat on this forum - before they pulled the trigger. That was a big mistake. The Law likes to see you being reasonable first and not wasting its time.