As with the question, "what is accurate Yoga?" and the consideration of how can we tell if folk are actually having "Yoga", how can we tell if we or others are experiencing "the soul" or just having "a" psychically induced experience, e.g. something on the level of chakras.
Why cant we replicate those peak experiences? We are told that they are "given" to us. OK, so we are given something but what? The PBKs appear to call them "visions" rather than experiences but appear not to be "experiencing" anything at all.
One common experience BKs relate is a pressure on the forehead between the eyes, I still get/feel this. What is that? A chakra opened, a chord etc? By experience was that the most they could offer was a nervous laugh, a loving smile and tell you to remember Baba more ...
You raise a fair question in my mind, does the BKWSU provide a manual ... a flowchart even ... of what to do and where to go for help and assistance.john morgan wrote:The BKs do provide incredible guidance to many but there are also many that they do not seem able to help. Possibly this is because of lack of experience within the BK organisation.
I fear part of the danger is the massive ego of being a god inspired angel of mercy with the cure all of all ails ... got a problem? "Do More Yoga" Got another problem? "Remember Baba!"
One of my genuine concerns is that individuals without any training, accountability or responsibility are empowered to dabble with others minds, lives and families ... situations where the BKWSU, or individual BK, often has a vested interest. For example, we had a case last year where the BKWSU was providing letters of support for a women going through a divorce inspired by her engagement with Gyan. Even though she had broken the Maryadas, been adulterous within her own marriage, she was at the same time providing the BKWSU with donations.
Needless to say she was receiving all sort of half-baked "guidance" from "god inspired angels" who probably did not know the half of it. This is where a trained professional might be a little bit more cautious and practise duty of care.
We take about psychiatry as a "happy pill" (well, psychiatry IS meant to be chemical treatment for serious ill ... you probably mean psycho-therapy) but at the very least, therapists and counsellors have professional guidance, a professional body and pay professional indemnity insurance for when they screw up.
What happens when the BKWSU, or a BK teacher screws up ... oh, that is YOUR karma and the public face must be protected first and foremost. And, yet, center-in-charges and individuals BKs are encouraged to dabble at even deeper levels than psycho-therapists ... even into areas of psychic phenomenon of which the organization is in total denial of even existing.