MARMAN - The World Champion at Getting Things WRONG - Exhibit #135 Eckankar is nothing like RS/RUHANI
Since 1983 Doug Marman has publicly minimized and discounted the direct
influence of Kirpal Singh, Ruhani Satsang, and Radhasoami upon Twitchell
and his ideas and Philosophy of Bilocation or *Eckankar*.
Marman is Twitchell's #1 Apologist who has made all manner of claims as if
he knew what was correct and what was not. In matters Ruhani Satsang and
Kirpal Singh Marman presented himself as having researched their history
and studied their teachings. His conclusion was that the similarities were
minimal. That Twitchell had presented something altogether different, far
and above larger in scope than anything Ruhani Satsang or Radhasoami offered.
Most Eckists believed that Twitchell 'coined' the phrase "Co-Worker with God".
Klemp down believed that the word Eckankar means: "Co-Worker with God".
Klemp has since modified that into: "Co-Worker with the Mahanta", instead.
What Sant Kirpal Singh said repeatedly to his Satsangi's, including Twitchell,
from the late 1940s is: "become a conscious co-worker of the Divine Plan" and
"be a co-worker for the divine"
Kirpal put it in sentences like this: "You must be reborn. When you rise
above the body and become a conscious co-worker of the Divine plan--then,
there is something."
This can be found over 75 times in his writings on the Ruhani USA website alone.
Kirpal also used the phrase "above body consciousness" repeatedly.
Twitchell used the terms Bilocation, and exteriorization, out of body
experience, inner travel, spiritual travelers did it, and finally settled
on "Soul Travel" and then Trademarked that term for Eckankar.
Despite the FACT that Twitchell never 'coined' the term Soul Travel either.
It had been in use in writings and paths, in books he had read published
long before the 1940s. But that's Twitchell. Kirpal Singh was teaching the
exact same thing using his own temrinology of "above body consciousness".
The content in this older thread from a.r.e. may help the reader understand
the extent of the similarties between how Eckankar and Ruhani were presented
to the public and strudents the 1960s and 1970s:
The Music of the Spheres - Sound Current Shabd EK
Transcript: The Music of the Spheres by Sant Kirpal Singh
- Naam Sound Current Word Shabd EK Bani Nada Bindu and more -
https://groups.google.com/d/msg/alt.religion.eckankar/BY3sybHy3e4/ve2E_xh9sTUJ
In those posts one will likely find multiple examples of the exact same
things spoken of by Kirpal and in Twitchell's writings. Kirpal gave proper
credit. Placed ideas into their time and place and yet drew strong links
between them all.
Twitchell gave no one credit, making up a slew of cartoon figures instead,
who taught him on the inner. Then he and his followers proceeded to TRASH
Kirpal Singhs name and Ruhani as an alsoran teaching far below that of
Eckankar. There was nothing greater or higher than Eckankar. Twitchell states
that uneqivocally in The Far Country book and in many other places.
Others followed this claim, such as Klemp himself, quoting him in 1984:
" But Kirpal Singh never mentioned that he, too, had picked them up from
someone before him. In a way, he was trying to possess truth.
But truth builds upon itself. Kirpal Singh had gathered it from other
groups, Paul had taken it and built upon it from many different
areas, and he then moved it more than a step further. More than just
identifying the mysterious force--which he later called the ECK -- that
works through all the God worlds, Paul said, "I also know how to begin
working with It." "
http://www.eckankar.org/Masters/Peddar/writings.html
NO, sorry that is not correct. It's 100% WRONG! This is disinformation out
there this since 1984, and it's about time the TRUTH was known to all.
Kirpal DID mention where and from whom he had picked up his knowledge,
every day of his life. Twitchell is the one who never mentioned it!!!
Instead he intentionally LIED about it, and DENIED his prior teachers
and his ACTUAL SOURCES by redacting names, copying verbatim from other
books, and the re-writing that material in a way to INTENTIONALLY COVER
UP his real sources. He lied, repeatedly, until the day he died.
Klemp has this back to front. It's not about whose master is the better
master, it all about the actual truth of this history. The people who are
Guilty of trying to possess Truth actually include Twitchell, Klemp,
Marman, Patti Simpson, Gail Twitchell-etc, and many others connected to
Eckankar. NOT Kirpal Singh. His background was open and obvious.
Kirpal Singh acknowledged his teachers, the spiritual sources he quoted
and taught others, and his own personal Master in Sawan Singh. People knew
or could find out about Radhasoami Beas and the Sawan Singh connection,
because Kirpal spoke openly about that and his time with RSSB. Each was
free to choose as they had the basic information of the interconnectedness
of those 'groups' and their shared history and philosophies.
The teachings all drew on Soamiji and Saligram from the 1800s, from Sufism,
the Sikh Gurus, Hinduism, Islam, from Sant Mat and Kabir, and even Christianity.
Klemp in his public comments about twitchell's history blatantly distorts the
truth of events when he claims: "Secondly, when Kirpal Singh found out about
Paul doing these Soul Travel workshops, he wrote a letter to the Parapsychology
Foundation and informed them that Paul's works were a lot like his own."
FACT: The WHOLE TRUTH is that the woman at the CPF in San Diego FIRST WROTE
to Kirpal Singh. And given what a polite gentleman Singh was he replied to
that woman's letter with courtesy, and answered the questions she asked of
him OPENLY and HONESTLY. Kirpal did NOT go chasing her or Twitchell down.
At that time Kirpal Singh did not care one bit what Twitchell was doing
in the USA. But it is well known fact how seriously Kirpal Singh and all
the RS Gurus took matters such as responding to letters. What Kirpal really
did is a far cry from what Harold Klemp does when people write him a letter.
Initiations are stripped, responsibilities taken away, or typically ZERO
Response is ever received from him. Manifold evidence for this abounds,
it's a FACT. Quoc Quy Hoang 2005/01/03 is still awaiting his urgent response
from Harold!
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/alt.religion.eckankar/EzdqX--SU5E
And they were NOT "Soul Travel workshops" they were in fact "BILOCATION
PHILOSOPHY workshops"! Doh! At that point the term Soul Travel hadn't been
used, so again this 'image' presented by Klmep is very misleading and
inaccurate. The public and Eckists were only being told a tiny slice of
the whole truth and thus distorting reality and the history in the process.
To this day it has not been corrected, and depsite the claimed "research"
skills of Marman and co his contribution has not helped clarify much at all.
The Whole Truth certainly does not present an honest reporting of the facts
or the truth. David Lane did some initial basic rrsearch but made some mistakes
in his conclousions along the way. It was however very hard to get accurate
data back in the 70s to 90s about Twitchell's life and Ruhani.
But at least Lane's mistakes were HONEST ones. Eckankar certainly never
co-operated with him, Doug marman never co-operated with lane and instead
chose to publicly and repeated criticise Lane and argue with him for decades
instead. Simultaneously Marman was withholding True facts he did know about
or believed to be correct. Marman refused to make public nor share privately
with Lane or anyone else. For years on a.r.e. Marman was playing a double-game
keeping his cards very close to his chest.
This endless disinformation, withholding, and falsehoods put out by Marman and
Klemp were intentional distortions. Or it's a mater of severe cognitive
impairment and rank incompetence on their part. Who could reallly tell? I can't.
One alternative is as bad as the other. In their 'authoritive' postions it is
inexcuseable, dishonest, inept, unethical and ultimately manipulative of others
across decades to today. This is not the sign of spiritual integrity.
So Klemp did go on to claim in his talk referecned above:
Paul said, "I also know how to begin working with It."
Well whoopie poop! So what? Both Twitchell and Gail confirmed in their Ruhani
Initiation reports and subsequent letters that Kirpal Singh was quite
effective in "working with IT" ... Many others have confirmed Kirpal's
positive attributes seen over decades. He by all accounts very much knew "how
to work with IT" too!
Who is Klemp to accuse Kirpal Singh of "trying to possess truth" or falsely
claiming Kirpla didn;t tell others where he had got his knowledge and
expereicne for the job from? False loyalty and apologetics is no excuse for
falsely charging another fully deserving of Respect with things they never did.
Doesn't sound very "masterly" to me in any way.
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OK so from this one transcript about the "Music of the Spheres" from Kirpal
Singh are a few names and words that should sound very familiar to all Eckists
past and present. Even Marman might recognise some and reconsider his prior
distortions, false accusations, and blindingly obvious Bias.
the Music of the Spheres
Baba Sawan Singh (Intro to Eckankar 1966 pg 5 Index)
Plato
Sant Kirpal Singh (DWTM TTF TFC TFOG books)
Naam or Shabd or Word
Sound Current
Cause
Logos or the Holy Spirit
Divine Sound
Sach Khand
the Source of all is Sound.
Kabir
Hafiz
Guru Nanak
Shamas Tabrez
Rumi
Socrates,
John the Baptist
Madam Blavatsky,
"Voice of God."
Masonic Order
the Rishis
Zoroaster
Logos of the Greeks
Tao of the Chinese
Enlightenment of Buddha
Sound-essence of the philosophers.
the Upanishads
Vedas
Buddha
Lord Krishna
Jacob Boehme,
Divine Music,
Hazrat Inayat Khan,
Sufi mystics
All space is filled with the Abstract Sound.
Traveling through the tunnel
Edgar Cayce
Guru Arjan
Tulsi Sahib
Bell is ringing wildly
violin and cello, flute, harp and trumpet, cymbal, bell and drum - all within me!
Creative Current
"tuned in" in order to receive the Music.
higher vibrations.
Julian Johnson, The Path of the Masters
The human soul and Holy Shabd are of the same Divine Essence
Holy Shabd Dhun
Living Master is love personified
Audible Life Stream.
grace of the Master
I hear the sound of crickets
Sounds of the Big Bells and Conch, Thunder and Drum beat are higher Sounds.
Master-Power
holy Sound Current becomes audible
Bhajan
the seat of the soul
May your soul be happy;
journey joyfully.
(Rumi)
Yep, all the above is from the LIPS of Kirpal Singh, Master of Ruhani Satsang.
He spent his whole life giving credit! Please READ the whole document on a.r.e.
using the link provided above.
Kirpal Singh spent his whole life sitting with his Initiates in retreats, and at
talks, and taking questions from the floor and answering them FACE TO FACE.
He did this until he died when he was in his 80s.
So on what rational and evidential basis did Marman claim Twitchell's teaching
was TOTALLY DIFFERENT?
Marman claims that Twitchell hardly spent any time with Kirpal Singh, that Ruhani
and RS were NOT a Major part of the ECK teachings .... care to repeat that again
publicly Marman?
Twitchell may have not received Initiation until 1955 but Marman has NO IDEA or
even an inkling of a thought for how long twitchell was studying Radhasoami or
Ruhani and Kirpal BEFORE 1955. How many books by RS Twitchell had already typed
out extracts from on his trusty RT, his Royal Typewriter waiting for Kirpal to
come on a second tour.
Marman instead falsely claims that Eckankar is different because of Twitchell's
references to Rumi, Shams, Guru Ganak, Guru Arjan, Sufis, Sihks, the Aryan Rama,
Zoroaster et al and of course RT, or Rebazar Tarszu and Yaubl Socabi and the
God-Eaters who also met Blavatsky and all that Jazz???
Sorry Doug Marman, what did you say again - I can't hear you properly?
Was that .... "Oh, really sorry everyone, I got it wrong. I didn't research this
enough nor professionally, I didn't put my own BIAS on the shelf. I just
believed what I was told without checking anything, unless it fitted my
preconceived BELIEFS and whatever Patti and Gail told me was true. I have been
both a gullible fool and an incompetent Historical Researcher and Biographer.
Worst than that I have accused others such as Kirpal Singh of thinking things
and doing that they never did, and there is no evidecne to support ANY of my
knee-jerk assumptions. I am very sorry for that, and I will write to those
people I have falsely accused, and blamed for things that I myself have done
without even realising I was doing it. I got a whole lot of things seriously
wrong!!! For that I humbly apologise to anyone I have inadvertantly harmed
along the way by my own stupidity, and beg your forgiveness."
There ya go Doug, now that didn't kill you!
Did it?