Do you want a famous quote? "
I hear that sometimes Satan comes as a man of peace." - Bob Dylan (see below).
Brahma Kumarism is Brahma Kumarism, not not Jungian spirituality or self-realization. And, as you will remember from the Murlis, Brahma Kumarism identifies itself as something unique and separate from all other "ignorant", "impure", "dark" and "unselfrealized" Bhakti religions.
Therefore to use them as a distraction or a defence is disingenuous.
Actually, I tend not to like the word '
disingenuous' and the way it is usually used in discussions to put down others, however, in this case I think it is fair. In recent years, during the period of your involvement, the Brahma Kumaris have increased their pillaging of other traditions and great thinkers exponentially ...
famous quotes or invoking the wisdom of "ignorant shudras" ... largely, I would argue, as the philosophy of their own religious leaders is to limited and poor. Great traditions have been reduced to nothing but adverts for BKism which is hypocritical because of the attitudes shown towards them in the philosophy.
Why, or how can you fluff up the "stumbling in darkness" of Shudras and Bhakti to support and justify BK Gyan? Or was your god wrong about them and the 5,000 years too, and do you know better than him?
You cannot fool us. We know what the god spirit of the BK says and teaches about all those other religions.
One also has to see BKism as a whole ... it is an empire whose wealth has been built up on Destruction. "Destruction in 6 months", "Destruction in 2 to 3 years", Destruction in 1950, 1976, 1986 ... Destruction, Destruction, DESTRUCTION!
Were they to say today, "
Fine, we've got enough money, properties and slaves now; let's just forget about Destruction. We were joking", it would not be a surprise, the leaders have very little integrity and change everything, but it could hardly be considered a noble or sincere way to amass such great power and wealth.
Elsewhere, you wrote that is such experiences could be created by science etc ... but on this forum we have one such small example, where hypnotist Darren Brown
consciously gives an atheist a religious conversion.
Brahma Kumarism is not spirituality, it is
spiritualism or spiritualistic and the subjective experiences you are talking about, bolster by all the hype surrounding them, it exactly what the Christian mystic Steiner, and others, would have called "Luciferic".
If there is a god in Brahma Kumarism, and there is no great guarantee of that, I would say it would Luciferic in nature (but you would have to understand what that meant first). Here is an oversimplified introduction ...
Someones including Rudolf Steiner wrote:Lucifer and Ahriman were two great angels (spirit beings) ... Lucifer and Ahriman together tend to comprise what most people think of when they think of 'the devil' but Steiner saw them as two distinct beings.
Lucifer entices humans into evil, or into sin, with light. He lures and seduces people with charm ... a lust for gold ... The gist of Luciferic temptation is that humans are initially attracted to Luciferic energy by something that appears, at first glance, as positive. Then, once ensnared, the person realizes they have been ensnared by evil ... he slips into us without us being aware of his presence.
Luciferic one-sidedness ... would have been human beings refusing to have any interest in other human beings, so content in their own self-absorbed narcissism they would have conceived of a profound distaste for the earth and everything connected to it. To the extent they would be glad to fly off into the lofty heights of the luciferically conceived "heavenly paradise", to live there forever satiating their passions and desires, where, of course, Lucifer would be more than happy to be their congenial host.
In short, the BKs' Shiva Baba and Paramdham.
The Brahma Kumaris don't study other religions, except to pillage them for advertising soundbites, and stray well away from subjects relating to spiritualism, possession, channeling and other realms ... because they don't want their adherents to start to think and question their addictive experiences.
Lucifer is the chief adversary of God. He tempts humanity ... potentially to its destruction.
Just because you can feel something does not make it good. In Steinerian terms, Lekhraj Kirpalani and the other BK mediums were possessed by Luciferic influences which continue to permeate and enlighten/overshadow BK adherents and work through them.