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Ex-BK Index and External Resources List

Ex-BKs are working on suggestions and a request for an Ex-BK index for an external resources list. We see the need for and value of both of these, and we think that they can be combined with the BKInfo Wiki and as an entirely separate project are providing the following list of topics for individuals to work on.

Clicking on any of the following links will take you to another page to share your thoughts. Some pages have already been made, some you may have to create using a another simple link.

A preliminary outline of the topics would look something like this :

1. Family matters

      Re-adjustments
      Relationships & marriage after leaving
      Relationships between BKs but outside the maryadas

2. On leaving the BKs:

      Emotional responses - general
      Anger 
      Depression 
      Suicide 
      Shame 
      Guilt  
      Therapy
      Re-constructing yourself 
      Alternative Lifestyles

3. Cults

4. Doctrinal issues

      God - questions of identity, authenticity and duplicity 
      5000 year cycle 
      Revisionist approaches 
      Revisionist BKs 
      PBKs vis a via BKs 
      Sex

5. Child Abuse

6. Substance abuse

7. Alternative Methods of Meditation

Ex-BK Index

This will be a work in progress for some time. Feel free to add to the list of relevant topics or make your suggestions as to how this index and list may be expanded and / or improved. Do not be concenred about having to or being able to use the specific way or editing a Wiki page, that will be done for you after. Think of this as a place into which you can add your findings or work in progress, from the Wiki as well as from external websites.

"URL" means Universal Resource Locater is the technical term for a "website address".

As an examples your entries could read something like these :

Topic example

Topic Egregore

http://www.brahmakumaris.info/wiki/index.php/Egregore

"an kind of group mind which is created when people consciously come together for a common purpose. Whenever people gather together to do something and egregore is formed. The egregore can continue to grow in strength and can last for centuries ".

External website example

State the topic, give the external URL (i.e. website address) and provide a very brief description of what one is directing the reader to on the particular webpage. Because of copyright, space and other considerations, you are asked not to quote extensively from external sites.

Topic: Depression

xBKChat page: http://xbkchat.com/xbkforum/viewtopic.php?t=906&highlight=depression

Post made by Joel on 11 March 2006

" Perhaps we could put our heads/fingers together and create a list of resources for recovering ex-BKs: books, web resources on cults/depression... "

Topic: Cults

External site : http://www.fortunecity.com/marina/pitcairn/1421/deal-eng.htm

See, quarter way down the page, where the BKs are discussed:

" Brahma Kumaris [ often under the false title "Worldwide Spiritual University" ]. This is a Hindu organization with international interconnections; its name means "Brahma's daughters". It was founded by a Hindu merchant, who... "

Work in Progress

As he said, this is will be a work in progress for him for some time. It will evolve in different ways and will only take firm shape towards the end. At that time, he expects that your entries under this topic will be reviewed, edited, corrected, formatted and transferred to a brand new xBKchat page which - provisionally - he has entitled "XBKchat Index and External Resources List".

However, the work that has gone into this index here will remain.

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 *'''7. [[Alternative Methods of Meditation]]'''
-==xBKChat Search==
+== Ex-BK Index ==
-Keep in mind that this will be a work in progress for some time. Feel free to add to the list of relevant topics or make your suggestions as to how this index and list may be expanded and / or improved. Think of this topic as a hopper into which you can put your findings - from [[xBKchat]] posts ''as well as'' from external websites.
+This will be a work in progress for some time. Feel free to add to the list of relevant topics or make your suggestions as to how this index and list may be expanded and / or improved. Do not be concenred about having to or being able to use the specific way or editing a Wiki page, that will be done for you after. Think of this as a place into which you can add your findings or work in progress, from the Wiki as well as from external websites.
-[[XBKChat]]'s search feature is useful but also has its limitations.  Keying in a word - eg "[[Guilt]]" - may bring up a listing of many posts.  However, the topic of guilt may not be dealt with substantially in each of those posts.  The word "guilt" may simply be mentioned briefly or as an aside in the post.  Also, the search results listing will take the viewer to an [[XBKChat]] page, ''not to the specific post ''that deals with or mentions the word "[[guilt]]".  The user would then have to scroll down until he / she comes upon the post which deals with or mentions "[[guilt]]".
+"URL" means Universal Resource Locater is the technical term for a "website address".
-"URL" means Universal Resource Locater. This is the technical term for "website address". The XBKchat URL  that you list can be either the URL for the XBKChat page in which the post was made, or the URL of a search request.  They would both show the same webpage.  However, the search request URL is better, because it flags the keyword in '''color''', making it easier for the user to find what he or she is looking for.
+As an examples your entries could read something like these :
-For example, using the topic of "depression", here is a URL [ one of many ] for an XBKchat page which deals with that issue:
-http://xbkchat.com/xbkforum/viewtopic.php?t=906
+===Topic example===
+* Topic [[Egregore]]
+http://www.brahmakumaris.info/wiki/index.php/Egregore
+'' "an kind of group mind which is created when people consciously come together for a common purpose. Whenever people gather together to do something and egregore is formed. The egregore can continue to grow in strength and can last for centuries ".''
-''To narrow it down further, you should state the name of the poster, the date of the post, and even give a very brief synopsis, description or quote a few words from the post. '' For '''example''', taking that "depression" result above, ''your entry here could read something like this :'''
+===External website example===
-===Topic example===
+State the topic, give the external URL (i.e. website address) and provide a very brief description of what one is directing the reader to on the particular webpage. Because of copyright, space and other considerations, you are asked ''not'' to quote extensively from external sites.
 * Topic: '''[[Depression]]'''
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 " ''Perhaps we could put our heads/fingers together and create a list of resources for recovering ex-BKs: books, web resources on [[cults]]/[[depression]]...'' "
-'''Because of space considerations etc he asks contributors to not reproduce or quote the entire post. '''Contributors simply need to paste the URL and brief details as above.  The reader will take over from there.
-===External website example===
-'''Regarding external websites,''' the process would be similar.  One can state the topic, give the external URL (i.e. website address) and provide a very brief description of what one is directing the reader to on the particular webpage. Because of copyright, space and other considerations, you  are asked ''not'' to quote extensively from external sites.
 * Topic:  '''[[Cults]]'''

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