07 Aug 2015
Me too. It's a discussion we've had here for year and which has been discussed in the real world for millennia. Are there other realms with other kinds of beings in them? Most religions say so, but then they also display such irrational or unfound beliefs ...
Ultimately, as you cannot stick one in a test tube or dissect it - and the BKs won't let anyone near theirs to give it a proper grilling - it's an unknowable. All you can do is look at the effects, their product, and decide at what social and psychological level they are at.
There are other channellers who have been channelling their "spirit guide" for decades, like JZ Knight and Ramtha. In fact, most spiritualist churches would little old ladies who would claim to have done, except their claims of divinity would be far more modest than the BKs. In Europe, back in the Middle Ages, the church set out to document all the mediums and their guides' qualities or abilities (albeit they called them witches). I know similar categorisations - but with different conclusions - exist within Hinduism and Tibetan Buddhism.
One question to ask is how much of a component is group expectation within the BKWSU. I mean, if you're told to anticipate meeting "god", and have to be outrageous efforts, followed demanding disciplines and self-hyponotised for 6 months or a year before meeting it along with 1,000s of others, how much of a background hysteria does that create?
If the lack of all that preparation the real reason why the VIPs don't "get it"? The BK answer would be, "it's not their fortune" and, I suspect, they would see them as lowly Kali Yugi souls.
If so, why spend so much effort chasing them and giving them such privileged access whilst denying true but humble "BK souls"?
The answer, surely, must be because of the material advantages and social credibility they bring. "Status by association".
Does god, or even a god, need to chase status by association and indulge in social climbing?
I would suspect not.
Therefore what is a being who claims to be a god, or allows others to claim they are a god when they are not?
I don't know where you live but if you have "spiritualist churches" near you, most have mediumship development classes where you can go along and watch how and what happens. Even if you are not a believer in other realms, it's still interesting.