littleo wrote:How did you come to believe about the end of the world, whilst you were in the BK, and how were you living with that idea? Why did you believe it?
Just before, or as an impressionable teenager, I had read a book called "Six o'Clock Bus: A Guide to Armageddon and the New Age" by Moira Timms so, in some way, seeds had been planted in my mind about it. It's full of all the usual 2012, Hopi Indians, Nostradamus stuff ... and none of it came true.
At the time, the Cold War was still happening, the Americans were ramping up their aggression towards the CCCP stationing nuclear weapons in the UK and there were many protests against it. CND (Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament) were at the peak amongst students and activists, so world war was on our minds.
However, with hindsight, I think if I was to be honest I would have to say that I was in a nihilistic state of mind about the world and (probably) myself and so I was easily prone to projecting this out onto the real world. I could not see the world as it was, I was seeing my own mind which made it easy for the BKs to manipulate me.
I remember my teacher telling me that there were military airplane already flying in the air carrying nuclear weapons and, as you know, the BKs are full of "the bombs have been made and they will be used" ... and they used to say that the world would get much worse close to Destruction which, logically, meant only a few years of normality as Destruction in the Murlis was 1986 at that time.
Is manipulating people with false predictions and illusions "spiritual" ... no. I would say the opposite of spiritual.
They might be 'psychicisms', which I would use as a term for lower level 'spiritualism'.
The only reliable about psychics and spiritualists, of which Lekhraj Kirpalani and the BKs leaders were, is that they are unreliable.
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