Kathy Shea, USA wrote:There is nothing in the Brahma Kumaris tradition that prohibits anyone from leaving at any time.
Pink Panther wrote:If you never really took the BK teachings on board and accepted their implications, you can leave anytime, with fond memories, no problems.
If you fully understand & accept the teachings, believe with all your heart that the teacher is who he claims to be, the authority is as claimed, and all that implies, then leaving the BKs is probably the most momentous choice you ever have to make.
It's a typical line, I heard myself from leaders like Jayanti. It's almost mocking of BK adherents ... "You can leave anytime ... No one is forcing you to stay". It is as if to celebrate their total domination over the prison-adherent, the moment they open the prison cell and tell the prison they can leave anytime and the prison chooses to stay.
The prison being a mental one. Individuals imprisoned by the mental matrix that spells out a kind of eternal damnation if one does.
BK Kathy Shea: Destruction or Construction?
'For nearly 20 years I have been a student of the Brahma Kumaris. In all that time, I’ve never been seriously troubled by the notion of “destruction” as taught by the BKs. Perhaps it is because I was not acquainted with the BKs until after 1976, a date that has been mentioned as foretelling “destruction.”...
I hear another very common descriptor these people use is "powerful". How do they define and sustain that? So she entered the BKs, to whatever degree she has, in around 1996, just after the failure of the "50 to 60 years for Destruction" prediction (1996), not just 1976.
So Kathleen A. Shea has "never been seriously troubled" by the death of 7 billion human beings, nuclear war wiping out Western civilisation, a blood bath civil war wiping out the population of India, and all the continents sinking!?!What planet is she from?
Kathleen A. Shea, Ph.D. is the President of IAM, Inc.. She does not mention her BKism on her resumé but instead uses the Brahma Kumaris' Living Values service programme instead. She holds a doctorate from the University of Miami in Higher Education Administration, a Master's in counseling from the University of Dayton and is on the
Advisory Board of the Family Therapy Training Institute of Miami, so I guess she falls under BK Waddy's mantle?
I see the BKs are now promoting themselves as a
spiritual humanitarian organization at one of her public programmes.
She served for five years as the USA President of Living Values: An Educational Program, Inc., a global character education program for children and youth.