Tuesday, April 8, 2008
Article on Eckankar
The article was of David Lane's wanting for people to learn more about cults and religion. Eckankar, is a religion that does not talk about what it believes in.The cult that I remember growing up was the death of so many brain washed people in Waco. There was a religion that they believed in due to one man's belief that we can all go to heaven if we sacrifice our lives for that purpose. I do not believe in that, I think we are born through our family socially learned on what we believed in. We are exposed to so many religion through friends and other family members who have converted. There is a long list of what we need to do to sometimes be baptized in a church or mosk so we can convert into that religion. eckankar has a respect for other faiths and doesn't pressure people to join. Eckanakar has been ridiculed by other philosophers as not being a cult. There is no God that they are said to believe in. Yet this group of Eckankar are growing in numbers and are now all over the world. They only speak of how people should live there lives and the dreams that they have at nights and what does that mean or how it is incorporated in their lives.
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Eckankar is most certainly a destructive cult completely devoid of any critical thinking. They believe in worshiping a deluded man who claims to the incarnation of God, the highest state of consciousness to exist in all of the Universe and on the Earth. Stop spreading deceptive lies. They use many Hindu words and the founder was once a press agent for L. Ron Hubbard, founder of Scientology. It is a religion created in the sixties from many plagiarized sources. David Lane P.H.D. provides excellent source materials on Cults like this, both academic and from personal experience.
No idea where you guys get all this information from, but it seems to me that you should do your homework a little better.
Regarding critical thinking: Most likely someone who objects to a critical thinking has more in common with that particular thinking than if it does not concern him.
If you're interested in a more objectional view of Paul Twitchell, try this book:
http://spiritualdialogues.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=14&Itemid=1
Note that the Shariyat-Ki-Sugmad Book 1, chapter 6 points out that the Living ECK Master is not to be 'worshipped perfectly as man'.
The Shariyat-Ki-Sugmad is the holy book of those who follow ECKANKAR. Critics of ECKANKAR abound, but how many of them have made a sincere, personal examination of the teachings?
The only true way to verify the authenticity of the teachings, ironically, is not to devour books on the subject put into practice the Spiritual Exercises of ECK in the privacy of one's home.
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