"Information Cleansing"
Abrahma Kumar wrote:Hi proy, If this is BKWSU orchestrated then I feel violated. What are the sources that the BKSimonb profile is 'cleansing'? A crazy conspiracy theorist could conjecture that the BKWSU actions signal to us all that there is something pretty disturbing going in inside the organisation. We students are the ones who can speak to the world with authority on these matters. Do they intend to make us seem as if we are deluded? We did the course and listened to the Murli.
As far as I know the BKWSU IT team are doing this both on the Wikipedia and on Google, led by Mohini and Waddy. Waddy last wrote me a letter (2005) from Florida, so I guess she is still there. Mohini I think is based in New York and is in charge of the IT team. Current BKs would know this better than I do. I have not been to a centre since I left. Look at the links from Google etc. posted by ex-l in this thread. Here is a short extract.
Warning – this is going to be llllloooooonnnnngggg ... Further warning – some of the web sites cited below set off numerous pop ups and pop unders and are not be taken as having any endorsement from me.
One way that I would seek to get past the blurb on any organisation is to try and identify criticisms of it and/or its founder/leadership. Obviously this will also produce a highly biased picture, which may include downright lies, but it will be an interesting counterweight to the PR and can open up avenues for further research should you so wish. The second way would be to try to identify academic opinion on the matter.
Since this is an organisation that is trying to promote a particular brand of spirituality, I’ll start with that context, with "cult" as my first search term, since that is likely to be the primary accusation to be made against the group. I’ll keep the name at just "Brahma Kumaris" because that is the essential part.
1. “Brahma Kumaris” cult
(a) “On Thursday 8 January 1998, the Spanish police in Santa Cruz on the tourist island of Tenerife announced that they had only just prevented a mass suicide planned for that day A Berlin psychologist, Ms Heide Fittkau-Garthe ... was the leader, the 'World Mother', of the Atma Center (Isis Holistic Center); the cult involved in this ... Apparently, Fittkau-Garthe had been the leader of the Hamburg branch of the Brahma Kumaris religious group (founded in the 1930s in India; headquarters at Mt. Abu). She retained its doctrine of an elite of 'golden souls', destined to reincarnate to rule the world in a new world era, and its belief in "Shiv Baba" (or "Brahma Baba") as supreme deity.”
http://www.stelling.nl/simpos/isis.htm
The words Brahma Kumaris in the snippet above are a hyperlink. Following that link, I got to a higher directory level on the same site, titled "Brahma Kumaris World Spiritual Organization: controversies"
http://www.stelling.nl/simpos/brahma_kumaris.htm
Which gave me a link leading to: "The 'Brahma Kumari World Spiritual Organization', or 'World Spiritual University' ... was founded in 1937 in colonial British India, by the diamond trader Dada Lekh Raj. His devotees call him Brahma Baba. They claim Raj was a manifestation ... of the Hindu God Shiva ... devotees at Mt Abu in India claim still to receive his channeled messages from the hereafter. They expect Brahma Baba's return soon. Then, a destructive, but purifying fire will supposedly end the old 'Kali Yuga' era, and bring about a new Golden Era; in which the spiritual elite of Golden Souls (the Brahma Kumaris) will rule the world ... Devotees should be celibate, as sex is allegedly the great enemy of the soul. With a 'fifty points chart' devotees must count, whether they are thinking about Baba enough, and whether their thoughts are pure enough. Negative ideas [critical of the organization's leadership] are said to gobble up energy and to poison the atmosphere. Ex-devotees complain about anti-women attitudes, and autocracy. New devotees often join the movement after supposedly non-religious introductory courses in 'Positive Thinking'. In followup courses, Baba enters the picture."
http://www.stelling.nl/simpos/brahma_kumaris.htm#Brahma
The web site is that of SIMPOS: Foundation for Information on the Social Consequences of Occult Tendencies. Survey 1996-1999
http://www.stelling.nl/simpos/simpoeng.htm
This is the type of information that is busily being deleted from the internet by BKWSU IT people. They will be individual BKs like BKsimonb etc. They will try to confuse the issue by posting under multiple identities, e.g. Avyakt7, BKkaruna etc. For those in charge of the IT team to be ignorant of what is going on would seem incredible to me. A conspiracy theory is only a theory when there is no evidence for it. Look at the evidence for yourself and I think you will have to conclude that this is a conspiracy PROBABILITY. Assuming the BKWSU are reading this, if this web vandalism continues then IMHO we must conclude that this is a conspiracy FACT. A whitewash job is going on. Very likely the BKWSU are orchestrating it. If they do not come on this forum and deny it then I will assume that they are behind it, and approve of it. This is very foolish of them. Nothing is worse than trying to cover up information. It leads one to believe two things. One, that there is even more that they have to hide, that will eventually come out into the open, and two that if something bad happens in the organisation they will cover it up rather than put it right. Read Eromain's letters on the Abuse thread on this forum for evidence of them doing this in the past.