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Tuesday, August 23, 2005
Irrelevance in Language
From Bridgit on 22/08/05:
I can understand why the KJV of the Bible impressed Shoghi Effendi asa standard for translation of the Baha'i Scriptures but I can't seewhy this style is upheld so enthusiastically for all Baha'i official communications.
Whenever I read letters from the UHJ I am immediately taken back to a vision of some early British Broadcasting Corporation presenter, dressed in a dinner jacket and annuciating in a plummyaccent.
Whilst other religious groups are searching for a relevant language in which to address the society around them, the faith forthe modern day is talking in this archaic and tortuous way. It's the linguistic equivalent of those tiles at the garden shrines at Haifa which, because they were chosen by the beloved Shoghi, cannot be altered to permit disabled access.
I can understand why the KJV of the Bible impressed Shoghi Effendi asa standard for translation of the Baha'i Scriptures but I can't seewhy this style is upheld so enthusiastically for all Baha'i official communications.
Whenever I read letters from the UHJ I am immediately taken back to a vision of some early British Broadcasting Corporation presenter, dressed in a dinner jacket and annuciating in a plummyaccent.
Whilst other religious groups are searching for a relevant language in which to address the society around them, the faith forthe modern day is talking in this archaic and tortuous way. It's the linguistic equivalent of those tiles at the garden shrines at Haifa which, because they were chosen by the beloved Shoghi, cannot be altered to permit disabled access.
Thursday, August 18, 2005
Shoghi, the Manifestation of God
From Cap 15033, Aug 2005:
In essence, Shoghi Effendi was made into the new Manifestation of God and the rest is history.
That is the current impasse.
Until this spiritual energy grid lock is resolved there will never be the spiritual energy manifested for anything we (I am still a BIGS!) aredoing to ever be a factor.
This is the great and terrible tragedy! We have no spiritual people of insight to be found in any direction who will address this fundamental impasse.
That the organization itself was made into the Manifestation of God! There is zero spiritual energy in an "organization". Spiritual energy can only come from the inner hearts and minds of illumined human beings. No one can top downteach anyone how to do that. It is a power of the individual humansoul in the journey of life.
It is "Life Book One". Not "Ruhi BookOne." It is completely original to each person's life journey.
In essence, Shoghi Effendi was made into the new Manifestation of God and the rest is history.
That is the current impasse.
Until this spiritual energy grid lock is resolved there will never be the spiritual energy manifested for anything we (I am still a BIGS!) aredoing to ever be a factor.
This is the great and terrible tragedy! We have no spiritual people of insight to be found in any direction who will address this fundamental impasse.
That the organization itself was made into the Manifestation of God! There is zero spiritual energy in an "organization". Spiritual energy can only come from the inner hearts and minds of illumined human beings. No one can top downteach anyone how to do that. It is a power of the individual humansoul in the journey of life.
It is "Life Book One". Not "Ruhi BookOne." It is completely original to each person's life journey.
The People Leading Us
Cap 15033, Aug 2005:
The people leading us are manifestly not spiritual adepts at any ofthe more rigorous protective contemplative spiritual practices ofmankind.
Saying one prayer every day and 95 phrases and a fewpassages from the Writings is not in the major leagues of full blowncosmic spiritual practices. Plus there are just too many meetings togo to and too many Holy Days to celebrate. Plus throw in all thoseRuhi Classes now in the "full sequence of courses" and the subsequent endless travel time and people are weakened spiritually. Ripe for "bleed-in"!
The people leading us are manifestly not spiritual adepts at any ofthe more rigorous protective contemplative spiritual practices ofmankind.
Saying one prayer every day and 95 phrases and a fewpassages from the Writings is not in the major leagues of full blowncosmic spiritual practices. Plus there are just too many meetings togo to and too many Holy Days to celebrate. Plus throw in all thoseRuhi Classes now in the "full sequence of courses" and the subsequent endless travel time and people are weakened spiritually. Ripe for "bleed-in"!
Term Limits?
From Cap15033, Aug 2005:
Living in an air tight insular cult bubble mentality is very, very dangerous. It is a one way ticket to mental illness, demonicpossession, or both! To me this is a much more plausible explanation to what happened to the Baha'i Faith.
The remedy is very simple.Either we start supplying an endless supply of Prozac and professional psychotherapy paid for by the Funds to people withlifetime employment in the BAO, or we institute strictly enforced term limits at every level in the Faith!
Living in an air tight insular cult bubble mentality is very, very dangerous. It is a one way ticket to mental illness, demonicpossession, or both! To me this is a much more plausible explanation to what happened to the Baha'i Faith.
The remedy is very simple.Either we start supplying an endless supply of Prozac and professional psychotherapy paid for by the Funds to people withlifetime employment in the BAO, or we institute strictly enforced term limits at every level in the Faith!
Amway Faith plan
From Cap15033, Aug 2005:
This is one of the major changes. The Baha'i Faith is not taught toreal spiritual seekers anymore at all. Real spiritual seekers think forthemselves and are often very advanced on high spiritual paths.
Couldyou imagine sending someone that has done Zen Meditation every day for20 years to the abomination of Ruhi Book One which is a horrible presentation of the Faith on every level imagineable! People like thatwould never join a spiritual farce like this! The Faith has been dumbeddown to the point of absurdity. They want automatons not thinkers.
Today I got a letter in the mail from the Regional Baha'i Council in mypart of the U.S. asking every Baha'i in my entire state in the U.S. totake the entire "full sequence" of Ruhi Courses during the last year ofthe Five Year Plane. And to also be sure to do ALL the service projectstoo!
I guess this is the new draconian rider eventual AO corporatemanagement escape clause! Must do those service projects or it ISN'Tgoing to lead to entry-by-troops. Nice move! They are putting thepieces into place for the eventual blame game when NOBODY joins theBaha'i Faith in this entire state in the grand finale of the top down Amway Faith plan!
This is one of the major changes. The Baha'i Faith is not taught toreal spiritual seekers anymore at all. Real spiritual seekers think forthemselves and are often very advanced on high spiritual paths.
Couldyou imagine sending someone that has done Zen Meditation every day for20 years to the abomination of Ruhi Book One which is a horrible presentation of the Faith on every level imagineable! People like thatwould never join a spiritual farce like this! The Faith has been dumbeddown to the point of absurdity. They want automatons not thinkers.
Today I got a letter in the mail from the Regional Baha'i Council in mypart of the U.S. asking every Baha'i in my entire state in the U.S. totake the entire "full sequence" of Ruhi Courses during the last year ofthe Five Year Plane. And to also be sure to do ALL the service projectstoo!
I guess this is the new draconian rider eventual AO corporatemanagement escape clause! Must do those service projects or it ISN'Tgoing to lead to entry-by-troops. Nice move! They are putting thepieces into place for the eventual blame game when NOBODY joins theBaha'i Faith in this entire state in the grand finale of the top down Amway Faith plan!
Bahai Computer and Communications Association
Revelations by 'Dreamlover' about the BCCA, on trb -Aug 2005:
BCCA controls many lists including Bahai-Discuss. BCCA's constitution calls for annual elections for it's Coordinating Committee. They chose not to have an election since 1999. They have accomplished nothing, if something good is suggested on one of their lists they try to control it in order to take credit for it. They do not believe in consultation, but feel they are benign despots.
Once again, without warning or discussion they have shut down Baha'i Discuss.
The last resort for a failed elected body that even failed to have elections is to do away with the elections entirely by becoming appointed. That way they become an "institution" above criticism and their flip flops and failures can't be openly commented upon.
Slowly they will shrouded in secrecy, their utter and complete failure to accomplish anything positive will be forgotten and they will be praised in the US Ridvan letter for removing the last arena for free conversation in the "official" Baha'i world.
For those who are watching the recent move happened about a month after a heated discussion about political conservatism and liberalism in the Baha'i Faith.
The discussion subsided, everyone went to neutral corners and pretty much was forgotten about, EXCEPT by those who wanted to kill free speech. They had their weapon and they used it.
For a Baha'i organisation that supposedly believes in consultation they certainly don't practise it in making their decisions.
Appearantly this transition from elected body without elections to committee takes at least 11 months, since there's no mention of it on their website.
The BCCA has become nothing more than a roadblock to the progress of the Faith. There's a tired old crew with no ideas and a mandate that expired six years ago. Their web pages are not maintained. They regularly kill ideas by trying to take them over. It's a shame to see it come to this, but there's really nothing worth saving. It's time to let the remaining rump of an organisation die.
BCCA controls many lists including Bahai-Discuss. BCCA's constitution calls for annual elections for it's Coordinating Committee. They chose not to have an election since 1999. They have accomplished nothing, if something good is suggested on one of their lists they try to control it in order to take credit for it. They do not believe in consultation, but feel they are benign despots.
Once again, without warning or discussion they have shut down Baha'i Discuss.
The last resort for a failed elected body that even failed to have elections is to do away with the elections entirely by becoming appointed. That way they become an "institution" above criticism and their flip flops and failures can't be openly commented upon.
Slowly they will shrouded in secrecy, their utter and complete failure to accomplish anything positive will be forgotten and they will be praised in the US Ridvan letter for removing the last arena for free conversation in the "official" Baha'i world.
For those who are watching the recent move happened about a month after a heated discussion about political conservatism and liberalism in the Baha'i Faith.
The discussion subsided, everyone went to neutral corners and pretty much was forgotten about, EXCEPT by those who wanted to kill free speech. They had their weapon and they used it.
For a Baha'i organisation that supposedly believes in consultation they certainly don't practise it in making their decisions.
Appearantly this transition from elected body without elections to committee takes at least 11 months, since there's no mention of it on their website.
The BCCA has become nothing more than a roadblock to the progress of the Faith. There's a tired old crew with no ideas and a mandate that expired six years ago. Their web pages are not maintained. They regularly kill ideas by trying to take them over. It's a shame to see it come to this, but there's really nothing worth saving. It's time to let the remaining rump of an organisation die.
Wednesday, August 03, 2005
Like Jehovah Witnesses
From an Eastern European adherent on 04/08/05:
Well, until quite recently I still thought there is something good or eventrue about the Bahai urge to refashion the world and I thought Bahai tenetscould be reconciled with the Socinian/Unitarian and even in a wayUniversalist positions I've recently held. Most of the people there seemwell-intentioned and quite devoted to the cause. The cause is not so bad initself, and I thought that possibly a change of leadership could make adifference.
Still, politically minded peddlars are not that likely to eitherseek the truth or give up, and the backbenchers are like Jehovah Witnesses -fanatically devoted to their leaders. I guess there is some psychologicalinterplay of fear of shunning and a phantom of wasted adult life that thehuman mind abhors.
Well, until quite recently I still thought there is something good or eventrue about the Bahai urge to refashion the world and I thought Bahai tenetscould be reconciled with the Socinian/Unitarian and even in a wayUniversalist positions I've recently held. Most of the people there seemwell-intentioned and quite devoted to the cause. The cause is not so bad initself, and I thought that possibly a change of leadership could make adifference.
Still, politically minded peddlars are not that likely to eitherseek the truth or give up, and the backbenchers are like Jehovah Witnesses -fanatically devoted to their leaders. I guess there is some psychologicalinterplay of fear of shunning and a phantom of wasted adult life that thehuman mind abhors.
