BK Charlie Hogg interviewed January 17th, 2006:
There was an article on the internet which seems to have been pulled recently regarding the instructions the BKWSU give families, since eromain's work. I also heard that out in some more remote service zones, Sisters are still telling mothers to "be detached" etc.
One of the issues this flags up is that the BKWSU HAS policy but that it has not, or willfully does not, put it down clearly in writing so that individuals can see it.
If the same instructions / Shrimat keeps coming up in nation and nation, decade after decade ... where is the thread? At the very least, it is coming through the senior Sisters. We have no idea what went on in Om Mandali. My feeling is that it was relatively liberal and healthy. We have no idea how the current practise evolved.
There was an article on the internet which seems to have been pulled recently regarding the instructions the BKWSU give families, since eromain's work. I also heard that out in some more remote service zones, Sisters are still telling mothers to "be detached" etc.
- • What is the actual BKWSU policy on this?
• How is this actually taught beyond the holy buzzword "be detached?"
• How do they explain to newcomers what this means?
Charlie Hogg wrote:Hogg says that the less influenced you are by people, the more you can help them. “Even when a mother has a desperately sick child, a nurse is better to look after the child because the nurse is loving but the nurse is not so caught up in the worry. It’s a blessing in life when you don’t feel so influenced and so sensitive."
One of the issues this flags up is that the BKWSU HAS policy but that it has not, or willfully does not, put it down clearly in writing so that individuals can see it.
If the same instructions / Shrimat keeps coming up in nation and nation, decade after decade ... where is the thread? At the very least, it is coming through the senior Sisters. We have no idea what went on in Om Mandali. My feeling is that it was relatively liberal and healthy. We have no idea how the current practise evolved.
- • It is too much to suggest that perhaps the virgin crones have issues about children and motherhood?
• And what experience, professional training or data do they have to support their point of view and instructions?