It's bad news but what we knew already ...
The Three Christs of Ypsilanti (1964) is a book-length psychiatric case study into delusional belief systems by Milton Rokeach. It concerns an experiment on a group of three patients with paranoid schizophrenia who all believed themself to be Jesus Christ; an elderly farmer and alcoholic, a failed writer who was institutionalized after increasingly violent behavior toward his family; and a college dropout and veteran of World War II.
By comparison Lekhraj Kirpalani, an uneducated but Sindhi millionaire jewellery shop owner, he and the Brahma Kumaris only believed himself to be, variously, "higher than God", Brahma, Krishna, Vishnu, Narayan, Dharamraja, and Adam or the Father of Humanity ... *AND* the man who caused 'The Fall' of humanity at the time of the end of the Garden of Eden.
Thinking one is Jesus appears to be modest by comparison ... but I know a BK followers who had a little panic thinking they might be the "Christ soul", as the BKs call him. Perhaps there is a correlation between one's wealth and the scale of one's delusion?
Rokeach brought together the three men, each who claimed to be Jesus Christ, and confronted them with one another's conflicting claims, while encouraging them to interact personally as a support group. He did not, as he had hoped, provoke any lessening of the patients' delusions, but did document a number of changes in their beliefs.
While initially the three patients quarreled over who was holier and reached the point of physical altercations, they eventually each explained away the other two as being patients with a mental disability in a hospital, or dead and being operated by machines.
Rokeach added a comment in the final revision of his book on the study that said, while the experiment did not cure any of the three Christs, "It did cure [him] of my godlike delusion that I could manipulate them out of their beliefs."
A movie based on the book is in the works and slated for release sometime in 2018 starring Julianna Margulies and Richard Gere.
I've heard that one of God's delusions is that he still believes he is Richard Gere.
did not the BKs at one point believe Richard Gere was going to star in a movie about Lekhraj Kirpalani? Or was it Rober Redford?
The BKs will love though ... so many VIPs to target with framed pictures of their god spirit.
Sadly, therefore, still no hope for curing Brahma Kumari followers then ... but, at least, I hope some read this and reflect upon the ridiculousness of their guru's beliefs.
“Delusional belief” is hard to dispel. In a 60s study, The Three Christs of Ypsilanti, psychologist Milton Rokeach got three people, all convinced that they were Jesus, to live together for three months. After which they all still thought they were Jesus.
The Three Christs of Ypsilanti (1964) is a book-length psychiatric case study into delusional belief systems by Milton Rokeach. It concerns an experiment on a group of three patients with paranoid schizophrenia who all believed themself to be Jesus Christ; an elderly farmer and alcoholic, a failed writer who was institutionalized after increasingly violent behavior toward his family; and a college dropout and veteran of World War II.
By comparison Lekhraj Kirpalani, an uneducated but Sindhi millionaire jewellery shop owner, he and the Brahma Kumaris only believed himself to be, variously, "higher than God", Brahma, Krishna, Vishnu, Narayan, Dharamraja, and Adam or the Father of Humanity ... *AND* the man who caused 'The Fall' of humanity at the time of the end of the Garden of Eden.
Thinking one is Jesus appears to be modest by comparison ... but I know a BK followers who had a little panic thinking they might be the "Christ soul", as the BKs call him. Perhaps there is a correlation between one's wealth and the scale of one's delusion?
Rokeach brought together the three men, each who claimed to be Jesus Christ, and confronted them with one another's conflicting claims, while encouraging them to interact personally as a support group. He did not, as he had hoped, provoke any lessening of the patients' delusions, but did document a number of changes in their beliefs.
While initially the three patients quarreled over who was holier and reached the point of physical altercations, they eventually each explained away the other two as being patients with a mental disability in a hospital, or dead and being operated by machines.
Rokeach added a comment in the final revision of his book on the study that said, while the experiment did not cure any of the three Christs, "It did cure [him] of my godlike delusion that I could manipulate them out of their beliefs."
A movie based on the book is in the works and slated for release sometime in 2018 starring Julianna Margulies and Richard Gere.
I've heard that one of God's delusions is that he still believes he is Richard Gere.
did not the BKs at one point believe Richard Gere was going to star in a movie about Lekhraj Kirpalani? Or was it Rober Redford?
The BKs will love though ... so many VIPs to target with framed pictures of their god spirit.
Sadly, therefore, still no hope for curing Brahma Kumari followers then ... but, at least, I hope some read this and reflect upon the ridiculousness of their guru's beliefs.