I found this description of Eckankar on 02/07/09 at wikipedia: Eckankar was founded in 1965 as a business; however, the Panel of Administrators urged Twitchell...
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etznab18
Feb 7, 2009 9:23 pm
Prometheus, I think the link I sent in speaks a lot of the same language I've seen here and in other places. One might have to make exceptions for the...
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D.R.D.
etznab18
Feb 7, 2009 9:18 pm
Jonothan, I think maybe this article expresses some of the ideas I was contemplating a little better. E.S.A., I'd would like to contribute this one to the...
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prometheus_973
Feb 7, 2009 8:52 pm
Hello Jonathan and All, This is a very good summary. I thought I'd add P.T.s original descriptions of the EK Masters that tell of "high turbans" and "long...
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prometheus_973
Feb 6, 2009 5:55 pm
Hello Jonathan and All, Actually, in his "Square Peg" article Twitch discussed making his new creation of "Eckankar"; into a religion. This was probably around...
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jonathanjohns96
Feb 6, 2009 4:20 am
Prometheus, Â I have a copy of "Your Right To Know" by Darwin Gross (Copyright 1979). Â ECK and ECKANKAR are the only trademarks listed on page ii. Â The...
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prometheus_973
Feb 6, 2009 2:48 am
Hello Etznab and All, Most of us believed that ECKankar, as well as, our former religions were more, in the beginning, than we discovered them to be, later, on...
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jonathanjohns96
Feb 6, 2009 2:44 am
Etznab, Thanks for all of your comments. Some of the wording in my previous post, specifically, the "Eck Vahana comment" shouldn't have been said. I would like...
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etznab18
Feb 6, 2009 2:08 am
"A worship service? On Sunday morning? It certainly sounds exactly like Christianity to me. Shouldn't all of that raise some red flags to the mebership of...
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etznab18
Feb 6, 2009 1:43 am
Does anyone find it ironic that section of IN MY SOUL I AM FREE on page 165? I do, and here is why. That book came out around 1968, before the "Mahanta" term...
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etznab18
Feb 6, 2009 1:15 am
I understand that I could have been more specific. It's the subject matter of "God" & "Heaven", etc., that almost all religions appear to speak for. Can they...
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jonathanjohns96
Feb 5, 2009 8:21 pm
Prometheus, When you said "I've stated before, HK is changing ECKankar to look more and more like his former Lutheran Church and Christianity in general!" you...
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prometheus_973
Feb 5, 2009 7:10 pm
Hello Etznab and All, Both Twitch and Klemp use the same Bait and Switch methods. They will say one thing on one hand and something else, or take it back, in...
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prometheus_973
Feb 5, 2009 6:01 pm
Hello Jonathan and All, Actually, there have been "Two Tracks" for EK Initiates for years now. And, this is reflected in the Seminar Workshops and Roundtables....
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jonathanjohns96
Feb 5, 2009 9:36 am
Prometheus, I'm not certain we are on the same track regarding Peter Skelsky and memberships. I think your comments are valid. But in the talk I am referring...
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jonathanjohns96
Feb 5, 2009 9:24 am
Etznab, Sorry, but I don't get what you mean. Eckankar is by definition the physical organization that started in 1965, plus all of its followers. There isn't...
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prometheus_973
Feb 5, 2009 5:42 am
Hello Jonathan and All, It seems like ECKankar stopped using the term "Soul Travel" with the public because it didn't make sense. Vahanas always had to explain...
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etznab18
Feb 5, 2009 2:48 am
"B. Eckankar is based on worship of a human being" Read page 165 in: IN MY SOUL I AM FREE, by Brad Steiger. Especially the part where Paul says: ".... This...
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etznab18
Feb 5, 2009 2:34 am
The term "Eckankar"; - as used in your description - appears (to me) an over-generalization & somewhat misleading (no offense to you). The reason being that ...
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jonathanjohns96
Feb 5, 2009 2:30 am
Etznab, I heard about this at the local Eck center soon after Skelesky gave the talk. I heard nothing about it since. So what I am saying is that just because...
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jonathanjohns96
Feb 5, 2009 2:20 am
Since the early days of Eckankar, and mostly since Harold Klemp has taken over, it has been busy reforming and redefining itself in order to lure in new...
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etznab18
Feb 5, 2009 2:14 am
You wrote: "Eckankar will be offering a new type of membership which has no requirements for the membership. Indiv- iduals who hold this membership in Eckankar...
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etznab18
Feb 5, 2009 2:06 am
Prometheus, I liked the content in your 3rd paragraph. It reminded me about something. It has to do with history when the timeline disappears & nobody seems to...
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jonathanjohns96
Feb 5, 2009 1:32 am
Promotion of Eckankar - Part 2 of 3 - The Madison Avenue Approach to Eckankar A long time ago (20 years?) I listened to a tape by Harold Klemp. In this tape he...
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etznab18
Feb 5, 2009 1:02 am
(A cross post from A.R.E.) Looking for more information about "Hu the Serpent". [see below] [....] "The Druids had a high veneration for the Serpent. Their...
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jonathanjohns96
Feb 4, 2009 11:59 pm
Through the years Eckankar has used different promotional techniques. I got used to Eckankar in the early years when their standard procedure was to give...
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prometheus_973
Feb 4, 2009 8:28 pm
Since the 971st, 972nd, and 973rd ECK M/LEMs were all married twice... How many times was Rebazar Tarzs married, as well as, the other ECK Masters? Can Klemp...
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prometheus_973
Feb 3, 2009 11:59 pm
Hello highgee, Hmmmm. Sounds like harji! Yes, we're mostly former (ex) ECKankarists. You can probably answer most of your own questions by reading the LINKS,...
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etznab18
Feb 3, 2009 11:48 pm
UPCOMING BROADCASTS The Spy Factory NOVA investigates the high-tech eavesdropping carried out by the National Security Agency and the effectiveness of...
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ige highgee
highgee@...
Feb 3, 2009 11:46 pm
hi am doing a project on religion. could you help me with some answers. will be very glad. thanks...
