Does anyone have any experience with them? A very good friend of mine and mentor when I was a teenager (and reiki teacher) is now a Brahma Kumaris. They teach their own version of Raja Yoga (meditation) and run a worldwide spiritual education school. On the outside they seem to be a great group doing wonderful things (and they do) however, my instincts have picked up on some things about them, that have irked me, such as their sense of celibate superiority (they beleive sex is bad, and impure/not innocent) and altho primarily matriarchal in power structure, are patriarchal in their main beleif in deity (altho they claim otherwise...but God is always referred to in the masculine, as God, or Father etc...never Goddess...rarely mother ...tho they may say *mother aspect* or something like that)
When I asked them questions on their sex-beliefs they ignored me....same thing when I asked them about their separated mens and womens circles in reference to their belief that the soul is genderless.....I had asked if they would allow a transgender/gender variant person to attend either of the bi-gendered groups...the local SF group said then ones born male should attend the male group...the MAIN organization said they could go to whatever group they felt most inclined towards...)
Interesting....
Anyone have an experience with them?
Shekinah Love
p.s.-Here are some links of Critique I found....
www.brahmakumaris.info/page6/page6.html
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When I asked them questions on their sex-beliefs they ignored me....same thing when I asked them about their separated mens and womens circles in reference to their belief that the soul is genderless.....I had asked if they would allow a transgender/gender variant person to attend either of the bi-gendered groups...the local SF group said then ones born male should attend the male group...the MAIN organization said they could go to whatever group they felt most inclined towards...)
Interesting....
Anyone have an experience with them?
Shekinah Love
p.s.-Here are some links of Critique I found....
www.brahmakumaris.info/page6/page6.html
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Re: Brahma Kumaris...
Tue, August 22, 2006 - 5:54 AMShekinah Love,
I went to the official website of the Brahma Kumaris and it said the website was designed for me, yes me. Well I didn't like it. Where is Krishna?
The four kumaras are born of Lord Brahma and wandered naked. They were very young boys and were totally innnocent. Sometimes we see that young boys or girls don't think anything of being seen naked, it is only after being told they should not be seen that way that they start to realise it is wrong. But at a young age it is not, at least not traditionally.
Anyway I suggest you find your friend and get the real scoop about what is actually going on in this group. If he hides something or it is a secret stay far away. It may be a suicidal cult as has been seen before. I'm not accusing them but something seems funny about it to me.
From the name of the group they seem to think they are "kumaris" instead of "kumaras". I don't remember how the kumaras took "birth", although some of Lord Brahma's children take birth from his mind. They are not ordinary children. We cannot rubber stamp ourselves "kumaras" or "kumaris".
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Re: Brahma Kumaris...
Wed, August 23, 2006 - 2:55 PMSince this was posted on a Krsna consciousness tribe I'll put in my 2 cents from a Krsna consciousness point of view.
They appear to be impersonalists. (which many spiritualists are, many because they have never heard about the supreme person, Krsna)
Their advocacy of celibacy is a plus from the Krsna consciousness point of view.
I have no personal experience with them so sorry I have nothing to offer on that level.
