Miracle of Love
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- See also: The Miracle of Love
The Miracle of Love is a spiritual organization based in Denver, Colorado. It is headed by two spiritual leaders, Kalindi la Gourasana and The Lady, described as "fully realized spiritual masters" on their website. The group's stated mission is to break people free from the cycle of birth and death[1] (their term for reincarnation) and bring them home to God in this lifetime.
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[edit] History
The Miracle of Love was started in 1987 by David Swanson, his wife Carole Seidman (who took the name Kalindi), Gayle (last name unknown, but who took the name the Lady), and several other seekers. It is stated that David Swanson underwent a transformation when he accepted his body being taken over by an Incarnation of God, Lord Gourasana, whom he had contacted. Kalindi and the Lady did transformational work under Gourasana and were considered fully enlightened spiritual masters by Gourasana.
In 1995, David Swanson died (purportedly his body could no longer endure the energy of the entity, Gourasana). Kalindi then became the leader of the organization, and changed her name to Kalindi la Gourasana, with The Lady being second in charge. Since then Jim St. James has also been declared to be a spiritual master, with several more advanced leaders declared as upcoming masters.
In addition to the home center in Denver, the group has established communities in San Diego, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Asheville, Seattle, Chicago, Munich, Amsterdam, Perth, Australia, Buenos Aires, Argentina, Costa Rica, Colombia, Iceland, and Switzerland.
After it's founding, the Miracle of Love gained members from other groups, such as Rajneesh's and Erhard Seminars Training (est). Kalindi is a former Hare Krishna member.
The most active members largely live in communal homes, guided by an in-house spiritual leader. They follow a rigorous regimen of activities and austerities in order to help them break free of their attachments to the temporal and material world. Those who continue living in private residences often choose to arrange their living space according to Miracle of Love recommended domestic guidelines.
[edit] Philosophy
The Miracle of Love teaches that this material plane of existence is one of duality, with inevitable pain, suffering, and death, to which we are locked by our attachments, and these attachments cause us to be reborn in a cycle of reincarnation. This keeps us separate from our True Selves and from God. They refer to the material world as The Illusion because of its deceptive nature, since it fools us into believing that we are separate and causes us to not be able to feel God's love. The ego is equated with the false self and the goal is to get rid of the ego to allow the true self to manifest.
The Miracle of Love teaches that people can break free of this cycle and achieve full union with God in this lifetime by surrendering the ego and separate will to God, following the guidance of the leaders, giving in service, and using the Gourasana Meditation Practice[2] to break material and conceptual attachments. The ultimate goal is never having to be reborn into this life again, instead remaining with God in a state of eternally expanding love, in a plane referred to as the True Realm. The Miracle of Love states that many of the people who have gone through Miracle of Love programs have reported life-changing spiritual breakthroughs.
Miracle of Love does not have hard rules or dogma. They teach that different people have different spiritual needs and each people must find the correct way to apply the teachings and practices to their life. They teach that there is no eternal hell and that everyone will come home to the True Real some day, that "God's love is for everyone"[3], and that God only sees our true selves and not the illusory part of ourselves that causes us to do negative things. Kalindi teaches that "Desire is Everything" and that desire for coming closer to God and the longing for home are key factors in our spiritual advancement.
[edit] Criticism
Miracle of Love is a religious group with non-mainstream practices that has often been labeled a cult, and been accused of using LGAT and brainwashing techniques. Several articles have been written criticizing Miracle of Love, including Kalindi's Cult - Miracle of Love by Jill Kramer[4].
[edit] References
- ^ Breaking the Cycle of Birth and Death by Gourasana 1991,1996
- ^ The Gourasana Meditation Practice by Gourasana (1995)
- ^ http://miracle.org/Default2.htm MOL Website
- ^ Kalindi's Cult - Miracle of Love by Jill Kramer, Pacific Sun: March 17,2006
