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I say I am an ex-BK but I am not a surrendered one. I could never accept the 5000 years cycle and never went to Madhuban on the yearly pilgrimage. I did however swallow all of The Knowledge pretty well and loved the meditations and people. At one time I was told by the centre Sister that if I did not pull my socks up I would be lucky to make the end of the Golden Age!
When on a trip to London HQ I was set aside and given a telling off by a Senior Sister for not putting in enough effort. I remember waiting to see her and many female BKs coming up to me and asking me for a lift if I was going anywhere! In fact, I had taken the train and wasn't a taxi service!
I had first become aware of the BKs around 1978 in London and it made a deep impression on me. I later joined them (sort of) in the 1990s and was with them 5 years. I knew all along they were a cult, but a more or less benign one compared with some of the others. I realised that families had been broken up, but then again the marriage was probably not secure anyway. So I did not blame them for anything, but would sit in amusement often.
As a Brother, I was used to fix things and transport mainly so I was of use to them. As somebody with a scientific (engineering) background I thought their knowledge was pretty well thought up and concise except for one glaring thing - there was no evidence for any of it. I did think it was a good way to run your life and got through many a crisis by their way of thinking. A sort of nothing really matters approach to existence except self development. I even taught the positive thinking course once and it was a great course apart from a few things here and there.
I have never stopped thinking of them in one way or another, especially as major events unfold. What I saw in my time was a great spiritual way of existence which was being converted into a religion by the introduction of ritual and blind faith. Something they themselves said was not a good thing. It was becoming a new religion and I realised what it must be like to have been around at the start of say Christianity in its early evangelical years when it first spread. I still think the meditation is great though don't practice it at present much at all.
The cyclic nature of things is of course true but there is no evidence for a cycle of 5000 years. The moon would also have to renew otherwise astronauts would see their 5000 year old relics when they landed. BKs never mentioned lifeforms elsewhere in the universe, just humans. OK, so maybe it doesn't matter but surely alien life would also have souls and also go through a cycle like ours.
Then eventually, although I am not a firm believer in this either, I came to the conclusion that there is but one way and one way only how the BK version of events can be true. That is if our existence is indeed illusion, that we are a computer simulation and it stops and repeats and runs again. The purpose of such a thing is in itself puzzling. Most days, however, I am at first n atheist and follower of evidence based research only. It is the only way to be sure, the rest is wishful thinking.
When on a trip to London HQ I was set aside and given a telling off by a Senior Sister for not putting in enough effort. I remember waiting to see her and many female BKs coming up to me and asking me for a lift if I was going anywhere! In fact, I had taken the train and wasn't a taxi service!
I had first become aware of the BKs around 1978 in London and it made a deep impression on me. I later joined them (sort of) in the 1990s and was with them 5 years. I knew all along they were a cult, but a more or less benign one compared with some of the others. I realised that families had been broken up, but then again the marriage was probably not secure anyway. So I did not blame them for anything, but would sit in amusement often.
As a Brother, I was used to fix things and transport mainly so I was of use to them. As somebody with a scientific (engineering) background I thought their knowledge was pretty well thought up and concise except for one glaring thing - there was no evidence for any of it. I did think it was a good way to run your life and got through many a crisis by their way of thinking. A sort of nothing really matters approach to existence except self development. I even taught the positive thinking course once and it was a great course apart from a few things here and there.
I have never stopped thinking of them in one way or another, especially as major events unfold. What I saw in my time was a great spiritual way of existence which was being converted into a religion by the introduction of ritual and blind faith. Something they themselves said was not a good thing. It was becoming a new religion and I realised what it must be like to have been around at the start of say Christianity in its early evangelical years when it first spread. I still think the meditation is great though don't practice it at present much at all.
The cyclic nature of things is of course true but there is no evidence for a cycle of 5000 years. The moon would also have to renew otherwise astronauts would see their 5000 year old relics when they landed. BKs never mentioned lifeforms elsewhere in the universe, just humans. OK, so maybe it doesn't matter but surely alien life would also have souls and also go through a cycle like ours.
Then eventually, although I am not a firm believer in this either, I came to the conclusion that there is but one way and one way only how the BK version of events can be true. That is if our existence is indeed illusion, that we are a computer simulation and it stops and repeats and runs again. The purpose of such a thing is in itself puzzling. Most days, however, I am at first n atheist and follower of evidence based research only. It is the only way to be sure, the rest is wishful thinking.