I don't know what Julia's status with the BKs is now, consequently, I am going to be caution on naming her specifically, as she advertises herself as part of
a "husband and wife" team and "a trained Mindful Self-Compassion (MSC) teacher". She became a BK back in the 1980s around the same time as I did and, hence, would remember the failed predictions in Destruction. Both were attractive, educated, intelligent, professional women.
However, I note she still, currently presenting events for the "
Kent/Canterbury Group of The Janki Foundation", as a "Consultant Child & Adolescent Psychiatrist/Community Paediatrician" offering "One-day Silent Retreat" with, I would say, specifically a Buddhist marketing feel, "mindfulness ... "gratitude & appreciation" are all Buddhist themes and not Brahma Kumari.
Theme – ‘Building Resilience Through Gratitude & Appreciation’
Led by – Dr Julia Ronder, Consultant Child & Adolescent Psychiatrist/Community Paediatrician, Certified Mindful Self-Compassion Teacher.
Who can come?
The retreats are designed for healthcare professionals, but as everyone cares for another, those from all professional and spiritual backgrounds are welcome. The days are ideally aimed at those already experienced and comfortable with silence.
Her company email address being the contact for it.
Of course, from our experiences, the idea that the Brahma Kumaris are embracing husband and wife teams, married post-BK, is beyond our BK comprehension, and beyond acceptable possibilities for the vast majority of BKs denied such relationships by the very same crone the foundation glorifies, Dadi Janki.
I have personally seen Janki sit and divide up young couples, never mind the chronic idiocy she pushes down the throats of 100s of young virgin girls in India exhorting them even to be "mindful" in their sleep in case they dream of such coupling.
So here we have the kind of bizarre schism I am asking vlakshmi about on a personal and institutional level.
If Julia is a consultant child & adolescent psychiatrist/community paediatrician -
and I am sure a very good one - what does she make of the way all the young girls are treated in India, married off to their god spirit and stuck in what is arguably an abusive system.
How can individuals front up for the BKs know what it believes and teaches them?
Her
site links to the Janki Foundation and another BK diffusion business Relax Kids (run by another BK who married) but not the BKWSU.
Not all the individuals involved in
the Janki Foundation are BKs. How does it operate within the BK realm now?
As some kind of diffusion brand for BKs and cooperative ex-BKs targeting healthcare professionals, a front to bring them close to "Important People" who would not be seen associatining with the primary brand? To bring them into close relationship? A BK Lite for BKs who cannot follow the Maryadas and have given up hope of a rebirth in the future Golden Age, and are happy to accept a low status re-birth in the Silver Age instead?
And why, on the basis of "The Knowledge™" would they been teaching/promiting Mindfulness instead of their own BK Raja Yoga?
Would that not suggest a failure in their own practise ... or is it all just a gently baited hook to suck people in?
No mention of BKism in any of the blurb, just generalities ... the marketing emphasis is instead on her professional standing .. a sick joke when the same uneducated crone pushed other young people to give up their educational careers and professions. I see they are
still passing her off as a "nurse".
"
Mindful Self-Compassion (MSC)" was apparently co-created by
self-compassion evangelist Kristin Neff PhD, who is "
widely recognized as one of the world’s leading experts on self-compassion" and with her colleague Dr. Chris Germer.
Nothing like inventing a new marketing brand and electing yourself the world expert in it ... no mention of the Buddha or even Jon Kabat-Zinn?
It's a global business selling "self-compassion" to self-absorbed professional classes ... Jeez, all dem Tibet monks really blew it seeking Enlightenment. What they really needed was an MBA and business development manager.