Just a quick reference to 'The Beautiful Side of Evil' by Johanna Michaelsen which refers to ongoing discussion on the spiritualism within the Brahma Kumaris movement.
Johanna Michaelsen is a Christian, I am not proposing her or the producers final assumptions, who thought her spirit guide was Jesus. She speaks about Elizabeth Kubler Ross, Shirley Maclaine's experience, and the original 'positive thinking guru' Napoleon Hill. Johanna was told that she would become the inheritor of the spirit guide of a Mexican psychic surgeon as a fully-fledged trance medium, and was being prepared as such.
Personally, I am not subscribe the whole Christian Evangelistic nor promoting it; so please put up a filter so that you are not offended by it. What I think is interesting are the parallels between their experience and Brahma Kumari experiences, e.g they thought it was Jesus or Mary ... and everything was wonder and light; the BKs think it is God and the Angels ... and everything was wonder and light.
She goes on about how it turned into "demonic battles", a blackness enveloping her (which we have had cases of reported on this forum), and also how such psychic abilities are transfered ... all of which you could argue exist in the BK movement.
She also mentions how she was stopped becoming a full trance medium after the possessing spirit guide said, "a greater spirit looking after her". There are 11 episodes, of which a few are here.
Part 10, Part 11.
Interestingly, "one world religion" and Brahma Kumaris best friend at the UN Robert Mueller, all get a mention. It also proposes pharmacia - experiences on recreational/illegal drugs, as a door to attracting contact with spirit entities.
Johanna Michaelsen is a Christian, I am not proposing her or the producers final assumptions, who thought her spirit guide was Jesus. She speaks about Elizabeth Kubler Ross, Shirley Maclaine's experience, and the original 'positive thinking guru' Napoleon Hill. Johanna was told that she would become the inheritor of the spirit guide of a Mexican psychic surgeon as a fully-fledged trance medium, and was being prepared as such.
Personally, I am not subscribe the whole Christian Evangelistic nor promoting it; so please put up a filter so that you are not offended by it. What I think is interesting are the parallels between their experience and Brahma Kumari experiences, e.g they thought it was Jesus or Mary ... and everything was wonder and light; the BKs think it is God and the Angels ... and everything was wonder and light.
She goes on about how it turned into "demonic battles", a blackness enveloping her (which we have had cases of reported on this forum), and also how such psychic abilities are transfered ... all of which you could argue exist in the BK movement.
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Johanna Michaelsen wrote:"... my spirit guides, Jesus and Mamacita, were with me, teaching me to overcome the lower spiritual entities. Now, during the many hours spent in meditation waves of light and peace would flow over me ..."
She also mentions how she was stopped becoming a full trance medium after the possessing spirit guide said, "a greater spirit looking after her". There are 11 episodes, of which a few are here.
Part 10, Part 11.
Interestingly, "one world religion" and Brahma Kumaris best friend at the UN Robert Mueller, all get a mention. It also proposes pharmacia - experiences on recreational/illegal drugs, as a door to attracting contact with spirit entities.