John wrote:Now, where have all these mind control ideas come from?
Do they originate from Eastern teachings or is it through research of the American government or where? ... for all their wrong doings I would still not lump BKs with other alleged mind control groups.
The truth is, I don't 'know' where mind control exercises have come from. My guess is that they are as old and universal as human kind. They appear to have been studied since the 1930s which is before widespread awareness of India and Indian cults in the US. Within cult/cult watchers world there is a lot of debate about mind control mostly, it seems, inspired by fights that have arisen from court cases in America ... which has to be a really bad place to start for "truth" about anything.
"Thought Reform" is the politically correct term for mind control, just as "New Religious Movement" is the politically correct word for "cult". Psychologist Margaret Singer, Ph.D, who was one of the main proponents of the debate that mind control in cults exists stated, "cult apologists have attempted to create the impression that the concept of thought reform has been rejected by the scientific community. This is untrue." She produced an interesting table that proposes a definition and differentiation between; Education, Advertising, Propaganda, Indoctrination and Thought Reform;
link here. But in either the American courts (she got hammered) or academia, all you have in one big, almighty, debate with lots of self-interest and no conclusions; especially where there is money involved.
I'd rather kick the ball into a different, and more obvious concrete park; Capitalism. Why do the corporations spend Billions on repetative advertising, buzzwords and jingles if they do not work? Likewise the Marxist stream of Capitalism; Communism or Maoism. Does mind control work? There is an interesting comment
here from a brand manager of an advertizing company discussion their studying of cults and cultish behavior.
Its a painful truth to admit that by any standard of cultic or mind control, the BKs score very, very highly.
Now, this might not be a wrong or bad thing. Apples are apples. Human monkeys are human monkeys. There is a little variety but not that much. If cultic behavior works on human monkeys, why would not "God" use it? The extra-added ingredient is that in most case of cult or thought reform there are only humans messing with other humans, in the BKs you have unaccountable, highly inaccessible, disincarnate spirits messing with human beings.
I'd rather look at it like software development. We have our computer brain box. Shiv and/or the BKs write a simple program and insert it. Part of that program makes us feel relaxed and spacey, part of it opens our mind to other "realms" or "entities" and starts to download more programmes. Each morning we sit down and our computers have a few old pages of code erased and another 3 or 4 pages of BKWSU code written into them. Shiv may have produced v 3.1, the BKWSU have added to it and are off to v. 95 ...
Gradually, we are coded to code our own minds. We insert little programmes, mostly unqestioningly, that do stuff, like;
"
check each thought", "
ignore that emotion", "
deny those attachments", "
the future is horrendous and futile (Destruction)", "
fear and don't question the Dadis", "
erase all non-BK data" ... "
refuse all access to other beneficial influences".
Now, obviously we have documented on this forum how those programmes have and are being re-jigged by the Seniors of the BKWSU to suit themselves. Many other BK programmes are just being "file-shared" around the BKWSU without the Seniors knowing or caring about them. Some of them are really bad code. Some have destructive viruses in them. There are many logical conflicts. We don't really know what they do or how they interact with other programmes running in our head but we are encouraged on because the first ones we return to still give up nipple-like comforts ("Om Shanti ... Baba ...") and when our computers overload, the Seniors encourage us to return to just them. "We have nothing more to think about" as Janki said.
What we see is that often the more high powered computers crash badly, the individuals has a nervous breakdown, and if you are a big name BK you will be sent to tech support in Global Retreat of Madhuban to have your hard drive wiped and be rebuilt. And if you are not a big name BK ... you are left on the streets to debugged yourself, welcomed to this website, or end up in the landfill like Ranajana Patel. It is the more slow and simple computers that are just happily running the most simple of the BK codes contently.
By continuation of the metaphor, Virendra Dev Dixit and the PBKs seem to be actually examining the code in detail, deconstructing it, referring to the readme pages (who reads the manual?) and trying to resolve it. I, personally, am not sure that one can. By a comparison that I have made elsewhere, the BKWSU is just like Microsoft pushing their products. Developmentally, it is out of control and has great, bloated, buggy operating system which no one has the overview of the code any more. They are applying security patches and software upgrades randomly that cause conflicts elsewhere in its system ... and their consumers are running a whole load of dodgy pirated spiritual applications. The PBKs are like the Linux users trying to re-write their Shiv OS from the original kernel (seed).
So, back to the question, is there mind control in the BKWSU ... ? Of course! What is smart is that they even get you, the user, to sit doing it, policing and reforming your mind yourself! And, on top of it, there is the spooky psychic stuff going on. The mind control is almost a distration for it. So, the big question depends on who or what Shiva is and what he (or whoever it is) is up to via the BKWSU. If he is God and if it is the end of the Cycle, then fairdos in my mind, use all the mind control you can because it is the only way to tame human monkeys.
If he or they are not God ... then BKWSU followers are in big trouble because they do not own their own minds any more.
