We humans aren’t purely rational beings. Sure, we have our moments of rationality. We also have our moments of irrationality. Both are part of being human. Emotions are a large part of our humanity, but in no way are love, hate, anger, sorrow, and such rational. Nor would we want them to be.
Still….
Sometimes it amazes me when a person makes what seems to be a blatant failure of reason, or critical thinking. Understand: I’ve been that person myself, so I have direct experience of this. I also have indirect experience. Here’s a recent example.
During the 21 years since I started this Church of the Churchless blog, I’ve heard from many people who have become disillusioned with the India-based religious organization headed up a guru that I belonged to for over three and a half decades.
They no longer believed in the teachings of Radha Soami Satsang Beas (RSSB). Nor did they have faith in the supposed godlike divinity of the RSSB guru, Gurinder Singh Dhillon. These two things almost always went together: RSSB teachings aren’t believed, and the RSSB guru isn’t looked upon as divine. Logically consistent.
But rarely, very rarely, I’ve heard from people who used to be RSSB devotees and now reject the RSSB teachings, but continue to believe that the RSSB guru has supernatural powers. Not to do good. To do bad things. Here’s a recent example.
In early January I got a message from someone who had left RSSB many years ago. Yet they were convinced that the RSSB guru has placed a curse on the person. I won’t share the details of what the curse consisted of, as the person wanted to remain anonymous.
What’s important is simply that even though they no longer believed in the RSSB teachings, they considered that the RSSB guru had the supernatural ability of afflicting people with curses.
I told them that almost certainly this wasn’t happening. (Actually I think there’s essentially zero chance of that happening, but I didn’t want to totally reject their personal experience of a curse.) I said that while they may have rejected RSSB, there seemed to be a lingering faith in the RSSB guru. Not to do good, but to do bad.
Within the realm of religion, this makes sense.
When The Exorcist movie came out in 1973, I’d been a member of RSSB for two years, having been initiated by the previous guru in 1971. Back then I was very much a believer in the supernatural. Something possessed me to go see The Exorcist by myself while my wife was away on a trip.
The movie freaked me out. It was the scariest movie I’d ever seen. And I came home to an empty house that we were renting in Portland. I had a lot of trouble sleeping. The root of my fear was that I believed in a supernatural power that was loving, kind, and compassionate. However, if that was the case, then why couldn’t there be a supernatural power that was hateful, cruel, and uncaring?
Which is the central theme of The Exorcist. That also was a central theme of what the person who recently contacted me was worried about. They were desperate to find a way to lift the curse that they thought the RSSB guru had placed on them.
Given all the things they’d already tried, I couldn’t think of telling them anything other than this:
If you feel like someone is threatening you through a curse or whatever, you need to realize that this is a fantasy….If you believe that the guru or some other entity is harassing you spiritually or supernaturally, all I can say is that you’re in the grip of an illusion. Again, illusions can seem very real. But if we confront them as a fantasy, they have a way of disappearing, because the truth is stronger than illusion.
The person didn’t like that advice. I could be wrong, but I had the feeling that they were hoping I had access to some form of anti-curse power that could counteract the RSSB curse. Which, of course, I don’t.
I pointed out to the person that given how much I’ve criticized the RSSB guru and the RSSB teachings on this blog, seemingly I would have been hit with an even heavier curse than what the person thought they were experiencing. Yet I’m doing fine. Curse-wise, at least.
The human mind works in mysterious ways. Here’s what Google AI has to say about the effect a belief in curses can have on people.
While curses don’t magically kill, belief in them can lead to “voodoo death” or psychogenic death, where extreme stress from believing you’re cursed, combined with cultural belief, triggers fatal psychosomatic responses, causing the mind and body to shut down; however, curses aren’t literal killing spells, and often involve psychological manipulation or secret poisons disguised as magic, with intent and belief being key factors.
How Belief Can Lead to Death
- Psychological Impact: The intense fear and hopelessness from believing a curse is real can overwhelm the body, leading to severe physiological effects like heart failure or organ shutdown, a phenomenon studied as voodoo death or hex death.
- Cultural Context: This often happens in cultures where curses are deeply believed in, where breaking a taboo or being cursed by a figure with supernatural authority (like a shaman) severs a person’s connection to their protective cultural framework, leaving them with no hope.
- Psychosomatic Response: The body physically reacts to the belief, manifesting symptoms of illness and death without any external physical cause, only the internal belief.
Curses in Different Traditions
- Religious Views: Some religions, like Islam, strongly condemn cursing, equating cursing a believer to murder, emphasizing the spiritual harm, but not necessarily a literal, instantaneous death spell.
- Figurative Language: Biblical curses often speak of destruction and hopelessness, but God’s power is seen as greater than any human curse.
- Spiritual vs. Physical: Exorcists note that while curses can inflict suffering (mental torment, financial ruin), direct killing via a curse is rare; the power often comes from demonic influence or psychological effects, not inherent witch power.
Real-World Examples (Historical/Anthropological)
- Hidden Poisons: Some “magic” was actually science, involving slow-acting, hard-to-find poisons administered secretly within food, appearing to be a curse’s effect.
- Taboo Violation: Individuals who break strict cultural taboos (e.g., walking on sacred ground) might die quickly because they believe they’ve lost their place in the world, as seen in voodoo death studies.
In Summary: Curses don’t possess inherent death magic, but the profound belief in them can trigger a fatal psychosomatic response, demonstrating the mind’s immense power over the body, especially within specific cultural contexts.
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It looks like you’re setting AI up to take your place. That’s the curse. You’re no longer needed. On a lighter note , cops hate it when you run. Don’t run. If you run that’s one less donut for the day.
Gurinder Singh dhillon is in fact a negative energy that is cleverly disguised as good – a perfect living saint (LOL). How else will this energy that he carries trap and manipulate innocent souls. We have to believe that our souls is part of god, a positive energy, and the essence of god is truth. This is why gurinders essence is negative because his lord and master allow pain and suffering and lies to manipulate and deceive you.
Examples are hours of mind numbing meditation and seva ( slavery) for the benifit of the rssb cult and his lord and master , kaal.
We also know gurinders character is pure evil: for a start he lives in a 126m dollar mansion in chundhighar, yet children around him are starving. He’s a land mafia, who lusts after power playing to his massive ego which he needs to tame ( not us) as he desires to be the Punjab mp. He has teamed up with his brother and drug baron majeethia , to ruin Punjab,… not forgetting he’s a pedophile sympathizer, and a wife murderer. These are all red flags for a crook and not a perfect guru he would like you to think. He’s nothing but a make it up as you go along baba of beas. Gurinder your exposed.
More AI of course. Notice he always doubles down whenever he’s caught out?
Whenever you catch him making a mistake, violating one of his own rules, or getting caught in a blatant contradiction (which frequently happens), he immediately repeats himself in the next post. Every single time.
Now, I would have thought he’d be commenting on the issue of the day — the violent progressive storming of a Minnesota church. A real church of the churchless event if there ever was one. So many relevant issues to explore on that. Like, I don’t know, how lofty progressive ideas about freedom sometimes turn into acts of terroristic domination.
Thats how Black Magic(BM) works. once a person believes that he/she is under the spell of black magic by some one, BM feeds on the energy of person, draining all the Truth out of him/her.
If one simply ignores it,BM cant do any harm. Its all the game of beleiving.No BM or curse can affect you if you reside in TRUTH.
so it turns out one should always strive to collect/manifest as much Truth as one can.
It will lead to positive shift in the life.
Gurinder seemed to have gotten rid of his wife and his legal problems almost simultaneously. This is to be digested. He’s like any celebrity. The more he sinned the more he couldn’t wait to seek absolution from the public.
To me, it seems that we humans are almost genetically programmed to believe in almost anything. This could be due to fear, physical and psychological insecurity, which covers self-doubt, along with the need to be right and to have our hopes, wishes and desires fulfilled.
To accomplish this, we subject ourselves to all manner of beliefs and superstitions, and, to a greater extent, to the words and teachings of people we believe, in one way or another, can offer us salvation from our fears, insecurities, and desires. Of course, intertwined with following some teacher and their teachings comes the fear of not achieving or upsetting the status quo.
Taboos and curses are common, even saturating everyday life and events. Actors may believe there is a curse in speaking the word ‘Macbeth’; many people carry ‘lucky’ mascots, and others perform rituals in numerous ways and situations.
It all goes to show that we are sad and insecure little individuals who often, perhaps without realising it, in one way or another, hand over our power to superstitions, belief systems of all types, gurus, political, religious or cult leaders and generally, to our own fears and irrationalities.
Gurinder Singh dhillon talks absolute nothings on stage – infact he hadn’t given a satsang in years ever since he had throat cancer (this is gods karma on him and to shut the fake ass baba up). Given he says nothing of any personal wisdom, and normally regurgitates others literature, ie a copy cat baba, why do so many millions of sangat fall for this crook and actor? He even says in his gatherings that for all you know he could be the biggest crook on the planet. But still some how tricks peoples perception, the subtle trick of kaal, into falling for this bent baba. Further more he uses his eyes, and tricks everyone to look at them by calling it dreshti. This is how he puts out a negative energy that hooks people’s perception, which is the curse – no other religion has ever mentioned dreshti. On top of the physical fakery, and the false promises of access to god ( lol) he gets you to take the road down to hell.
Religion is so wrong and not necessary
As we see in the world today, it is the very root of all evil.
Wars, hate, killing, greed all of it, you can thank religion for it
Take Radha Soami and Gurinder Singh Dhilion he himself says we’re not a ” re lie gion “, he knows but at times still uses we are a religion as in the building of the Australian satsang centre building , Gurinder just lied, to get his way again
Radha soami shows us all that religion is a deceptive way of luring and getting the world to do, what they want.
Who are they? The slim balls we know as Baba, as in Gurinder Singh Dhilion who lies for a living on stage and never does as he preaches.
Stealing and bullying the poor just so they can have they’re full. Tax frauding, Land Stealing, even robbing his own relatives the list never ends..
Is there one thing that Gurinder Singh dhillon has done right by?
No, and how could he when he’s batting for himself and his evil ways
And why is there a need for a New religion like Radha Soami when there where so many others created thousands and thousands of years ago?
Are they all wrong now and were they never the truth?
So Gurinder Singh Dhilion has now come with the truth and all the other religions are a total lie?
Gurinder has now showed the ugly truth by being so Exposed and riddiculed like P.diddy that he never was what we thought he was.
Ugly as it may be but its the truth and we should now except what is starring us in the face blatantly
Religious organisations like Radha Soami should be shut down and the Baba like Gurinder Singh Dhilion sentenced for the crimes they have committed
Now we have the new fraudy Baba Jassdeep trying his hand at what Gurinder made a luxurious lifestyle of power and greed
This World would and still can be somewhat a better place