Re: Ruhi and Charisma

2012-08-20 Thread Skygram
The Baha'i Studies Listserv Hi Friends, My question regarding Charisma and Ruhi is due to spotting this definition in Wikipedia under the listing for New Religious Movements. If you replace the word cult with the word movement you get what they refer to as the social model. I can¹t help but view

Re: Ruhi and Charisma

2012-08-20 Thread Susan Maneck
The Baha'i Studies Listserv Ah, by charismatic you meant cultish. I've always used the Charismatic Movement to refer to the movement in Christianity which emphasizes gifts of the spirit (charisma) such as speaking in tongues. . I can’t help but view the Ruhi movement as being something separate

Ruhi and Charisma

2012-08-19 Thread Skygram
The Baha'i Studies Listserv Susan, Could Ruhi be defined as a Charismatic movement within the Baha'i Faith? Bill __ You are subscribed to Baha'i Studies as: mailto:arch...@mail-archive.com Unsubscribe: send a blank email to mailto:leave-659754

Re: Ruhi and Charisma

2012-08-19 Thread Firouz
The Baha'i Studies Listserv On 20/08/2012 3:42 AM, Skygram wrote: The Baha'i Studies Listserv Susan, Could Ruhi be defined as a Charismatic movement within the Baha'i Faith? Bill Probably in some countries YES, but not all countries or places. Best regards, Firouz

Re: UHJ on Ruhi

2007-04-25 Thread firestorm
that a large % would like and promulgate such, and since 2k has been totallly telling people they have a right to not like ruhi, but wishes that those who don't like it either shushhh or engage in meaningful development of alternatives. i am however, occasionally intrigued by the prnoun issue

Re: UHJ on Ruhi

2007-04-23 Thread smaneck
: UHJ on Ruhi To: Baha'i Studies bahai-st@list.jccc.edu I may be wrong, but I believe the current attitude of the House is that Ruhi isn't for everyone and that if a person doesn't like it they don't have to do it. I want to clarify this is correct. If it is I'm wondering if this is just

Re: Ruhi

2007-04-05 Thread smaneck
accelerated courses ignore completely the praxis. Dear Hasan, And that's why when A clusters are created by using accelerated courses without implementing the practices growth does not occur. It's self-defeating. If Ruhi is anything at all, it *is* the practices. warmest, Susan

Re: Ruhi

2007-04-05 Thread firestorm
is the correct answer... to aswer david, ...possibly learning to listen as a vague glimpse of what consultation will b like when ever it is its turn to become manifest is a ruhi goal. as a facilitator, i know which book is mine in a stack becuase nothing is ever written in it. i know quite a few

Ruhi

2007-04-04 Thread David Friedman
In order to advance to an A cluster a certain number of people must complete a few of the courses. Since I don't really learn anything or enjoy Ruhi I was wondering if there is some way one can 'do' a course without going in a course with others. Would I be able to do it in my own time

Re: Ruhi

2007-04-04 Thread M Chase
What kind of cult would the Faith be if you were allowed to do that;-?! David Friedman wrote: In order to advance to an A cluster a certain number of people must complete a few of the courses. Since I don't really learn anything or enjoy Ruhi I was wondering if there is some way one can 'do

Re: Ruhi

2007-04-04 Thread smaneck
anything or enjoy Ruhi I was wondering if there is some way one can 'do' a course without going in a course with others. Would I be able to do it in my own time and write my answers in the book and then get it checked off by a tutor? The short answer to your question is no. Besides

Re: Ruhi

2007-04-04 Thread smaneck
What kind of cult would the Faith be if you were allowed to do that;-?! Seriously, taking the courses by yourself would destroy their whole purpose which is not to teach us certain things but to get us as a community *doing* certain things. So the books are useless without the practices.

Re: Ruhi

2007-04-04 Thread Tim Nolan
Hi Susan, there are not supposed to be any right or wrong answers (despite the fact the questions are close-ended. I wonder where the myth began that there are no right or wrong answers in the Ruhi method. Clearly there are right and wrong answers. For example: Book 1, Part

Re: Ruhi

2007-04-04 Thread Hasan Elias
accelerated courses ignore completely the praxis. I am at book 2 for that reason and because i cant find people. [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribió: What kind of cult would the Faith be if you were allowed to do that;-?! Seriously, taking the courses by yourself would destroy their whole purpose

Re: Ruhi

2007-04-04 Thread smaneck
There are many examples like these. Maybe a facilitator, out of courtesy, would not say That answer is wrong, but an answer can still be wrong or right, even if no one calls it that. The notion that there are no right or wrong answers may hold for some open ended questions, but for

Letter from the House on Ruhi

2005-10-28 Thread Tim Nolan
Susan, Is this the letter you mean? I found it at: http://bahai-library.com/?file=uhj_training_institutes With warm regards, Tim Nolan Training Institutes by Universal House of Justice2001-05-31Dear Bah' Friend, Your letter dated 30 April 2001 has been received by the Universal House

RE: Letter from the House on Ruhi

2005-10-28 Thread Susan Maneck
Yes, thanks. That is the letter I was looking for. The information contained in this e-mail and any attachments thereto ("e-mail") is sent by the Johnson County Community College ("JCCC") and is intended to be confidential and for the use of only the individual or entity named

ruhi for junior youth

2005-01-24 Thread louise mchenry
Sandra wrote: It has also been stated here in Alaska that Jr.Youth should not take the Ruhi course but, instead take the course (patterned after Ruhi) especially for Youth. I'm not sure what that is called. I'm curious if it is the same elsewhere. Regardless, it is only offered to Youth

ruhi for junior youth

2005-01-24 Thread louise mchenry
Sandra wrote: It has also been stated here in Alaska that Jr.Youth should not take the Ruhi course but, instead take the course (patterned after Ruhi) especially for Youth. I'm not sure what that is called. I'm curious if it is the same elsewhere. Regardless, it is only offered to Youth

Re: Ruhi - a data point from Houston

2005-01-22 Thread Sandra Chamberlain
I completely agree about Ruhi and youth. Here is my post from 2001: http://www.escribe.com/religion/bahaist/m29288.html Unfortunately from then to now there hasn't been a Book 2 offering in our community as many others became enthusiastic and there have been several more Book 1 study circles

RE: Ruhi - a data point from Houston

2005-01-22 Thread Susan Maneck
It has also been stated here in Alaska that Jr.Youth should not take the Ruhi course but, instead take the course (patterned after Ruhi) especially for Youth. Dear Sandra, I don't quite get that, nor have I seen anything like it in the lower 48. My experience is that children as young as 10

Re: Ruhi - a data point from Houston

2005-01-22 Thread Popeyesays
no trouble with the material. I figure Ruhi is pretty straightforward, and written in a concrete reasoning kindof way. I certainly see no reason why it has to be watered down for youth. Ihave never seen a youth who could not grasp it. As it is, my daughter has finished all the available books but 5, and is one

Ruhi - a data point from Houston

2005-01-21 Thread Ahang Rabbani
I think Ruhi was God-sent for my 16 yr old son. He used to be a shy, introvert teenager with a wishy-washy knowledge of the Faith, and when he came to meetings almost never said anything or was not engaged in any other way. He went through all the Ruhi books and is now an enormously confident

Re: Ruhi - a data point from Houston

2005-01-21 Thread Popeyesays
In a message dated 1/21/2005 2:04:30 PM Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: As for me, I sat and suffered through one session of Ruhi and was ready to putgun to my head after that. So it may not be for an old dog like me, but as Isaid it was God-sent for my son.Regards, Ahang. My

Re: Ruhi - a data point from Houston

2005-01-21 Thread Smaneck
In a message dated 1/21/2005 2:04:55 P.M. Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: As for me, I sat and suffered through one session of Ruhi and was ready to putgun to my head after that. So it may not be for an old dog like me, but as Isaid it was God-sent for my son. Dear

Re: Ruhi - a data point from Houston

2005-01-21 Thread Smaneck
it before. Exactly. And we do need to keep in mind that Ruhi wasn't designed for us, it was designed to consolidate mass enrollments. warmest, Susan __ You are subscribed to Baha'i Studies as: mailto:archive@mail-archive.com To unsubscribe, send

Re: Ruhi - a data point from Houston

2005-01-21 Thread Firouz Anaraki
Susan: "Exactly. And we do need to keep in mind that Ruhi wasn't designed for us, it was designed to consolidate mass enrollments." Dear Susan, Why then are we encouraged and sometimes sort of forced to enroll for these courses? Is it just to increase statistics? Regar

RE: Ruhi - a data point from Houston

2005-01-21 Thread Susan Maneck
Why then are we encouraged and sometimes sort of forced to enroll for these courses? Is it just to increase statistics? Nope. So we can tutor them. __ You are subscribed to Baha'i Studies as: mailto:archive@mail-archive.com To unsubscribe,

RE: ruhi in ireland

2005-01-20 Thread James Mock
of the difficulties I find and that is that one of the principal publishers of the Ruhi materials is Palabra Publications which is associated with Paul Lample who is one of the staunchest supporters and promoters of the Study Circle engine on the ITC. I wonder too if there are royalty arrangements with the Ruhi

Re: Study Circles That Count (was Ruhi in Thailand)

2005-01-20 Thread Mark A. Foster
Tim, At 08:21 PM 1/20/2005, you wrote: I think anyone can have a study circle, you don't need anyone's permission or approval. It may be that such an unofficial study circle will not count, but so what? Whether they count is not, IMO, the major problem. It is the fact that Ruhi has been

RE: Ruhi in Thailand

2005-01-20 Thread louise mchenry
. Personally, I think it is shortsighted, but if people feel this way, then they feel this way. If an LSA feels only one who has done Ruhi book 3 can teach children, then they are entitled to decide so. Dear Janine, In this case, like so many, we are talking about excluding people who

RE: Study Circles That Count (was Ruhi in Thailand)

2005-01-20 Thread Susan Maneck
certain books that 'count'. The problem is that authorized Ruhi Study Circles have been made prerequisites for other things. And the institutions care if they count. warmest, Susan __ You are subscribed to Baha'i Studies as: mailto:archive@mail

RE: Ruhi in Thailand

2005-01-20 Thread Susan Maneck
I maintain that it is a job. And that the lsa is a body who has to decide who is qualified and who is not. Dear Janine, If what you are trying to say is that an LSA can establish any prerequisite it wishes, I would agree. But when Ruhi books are made prerequisites for certain types of service

RE: Study Circles That Count (was Ruhi in Thailand)

2005-01-20 Thread louise mchenry
It has not yet reached that level here in Ireland, as far as I am aware. What things is one not eligible for in the USA atthe moment if one has not done a certain ruhi book? much love, janine --- Susan Maneck [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It sometimes seems to me that the fundamental purpose

ruhi for the last time

2005-01-20 Thread louise mchenry
I want to thank everybody for giving your views and ideas on this subject. For letting me know what is happening in other countries, mainly USA and Thailand. It has enhanced my understanding big time and my ability to understand what a person who does not like ruhi may sense as pitfalls

RE: Study Circles That Count (was Ruhi in Thailand)

2005-01-20 Thread Susan Maneck
It has not yet reached that level here in Ireland, as far as I am aware. What things is one not eligible for in the USA atthe moment if one has not done a certain ruhi book? Dear Janine, I only know of two things that Ruhi was made a requirement for. One was was homefront pioneering

RE: ruhi for the last time

2005-01-20 Thread Susan Maneck
I am now tempted to leave this subject because, well, I dunno. Maybe I have a feeling it is not a subject pleasant to all. Not that we only should talk about things we feel comfortable with. At the same time I do not think it is wise to push a subject when it gets on the nerves of people. Dear

derogatory remarks on institutes (was RE: ruhi in ireland)

2005-01-19 Thread louise mchenry
. And sometimes a doubtful approach is interpreted by Bahais as close to covenant breaking. Someone in my community said, after hearing that some people I knew on the internet had great difficulty with that ruhi is now so much promoted and questioned the wisdom of that, she said: that is covenant breaking

RE: Ruhi in Thailand

2005-01-19 Thread louise mchenry
Anybody can set up a study circle. We can always refer back to the UHJ letters to bakc that up. To be a recognised ruhi facillitator, one has to do book 7 and in some countries, Ireland for example, this one cannot do before one has done book 1,2,3,4,6. but to set up any study circle one which

RE: Ruhi in Ireland

2005-01-19 Thread louise mchenry
dearest friend. much love, janineKhazeh Fananapazir [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can I beg you all most humbly most supplicatingly to leave this sort ofdiscussion about discussion about slander about Ruhi? I have noted suchdiscussions become rapidly very very divisive. It can sunder and divide amost

RE: ruhi in ireland

2005-01-19 Thread louise mchenry
uently a! nd regularly, well andgood. But if it means we divide our resources so that we are having lots oflittle meetings at individuals homes, I think it will be self-defeating.Seekers want to attend worship services at neutral venues."If I offer the ruhi book 1 to a friend, I

RE: ruhi in ireland

2005-01-19 Thread Steve Cooney (Steve Cooney)
Janine and James et al, Your in danger of falling off your high horses. I never suggested any actual impropriety, what I asked for was that the Ruhi Institute materials be placed in the public digital domain, in order to avoid/mitigate any semblance of impropriety, any possibility of pecuniary

Re: Ruhi in Thailand

2005-01-19 Thread Firouz Anaraki
Dear janine, Thanks again for your reply. Talking about Adib Taherzadeh, I would like to comment that I do admire him. I had an opportunity to meet him during my pilgrimage in 1996 and I really did enjoy talking with him and listening to him. In fact I should say that I have met quite a

RE: ruhi in ireland

2005-01-19 Thread Susan Maneck
I never suggested any actual impropriety, what I asked for was that the Ruhi Institute materials be placed in the public digital domain, in order to avoid/mitigate any semblance of impropriety, The problem Steve, is that I don't think anyone saw any semblance of impropriety until you suggested

Re: ruhi in ireland

2005-01-19 Thread Firouz Anaraki
Book 6 gave me a scenario for the subjects which are most important to be brought up in talking to another about the bahai faith (I happen to agree with the importance of the subjects book 6 suggest) and also gave me a manner, a way of speakign and being with a person one wants to tell about the

RE: ruhi in ireland

2005-01-19 Thread Susan Maneck
I thought there is Core in the USA. Is that not considered an alternative? Dear Janine, The Fundamental Verities portion of the Core Curriculum existed prior to the Study Circles and was then modified to meet the House's criteria for a basic sequence of courses. But Ruhi got a head start here

RE: Ruhi in Thailand

2005-01-19 Thread Susan Maneck
Anybody can set up a study circle. We can always refer back to the UHJ letters to bakc that up. Dear Janine, I know that, but it won't get counted as fulfilling any goals. So if Ruhi is not working in the USA, and counsellors go around telling things which are not based in truth, like that Ruhi

RE: ruhi in ireland

2005-01-19 Thread Susan Maneck
I remember when I did book 6, I had a problem with one of the editorial comments about one of the quotations. Dear Firouz, I've had problems this way as well, though I've never done Book 6. But one Baha'i insisted I wasn't giving firesides right because I wasn't keeping it simple like Book 6

RE: devotionals (was RE: ruhi in ireland)

2005-01-19 Thread louise mchenry
Dear Susan, you are right I have not seen any statistics ;o) I think a devotional meeting is not passing the prayer book around. I think it is creating a devotional atmosphere. I usually print out some quotes and prayers and try to make it as diverse as possible, with prayers from different

RE: ruhi in ireland

2005-01-19 Thread louise mchenry
Curriculum existed prior to theStudy Circles and was then modified to meet the House's criteria for a basicsequence of courses. But Ruhi got a head start here because it was the onlyone which met the House's criteria already. Therefore the Institutes werethen packed with pro-Ruhi enthusiasts. When

RE: devotionals (was RE: ruhi in ireland)

2005-01-19 Thread Susan Maneck
I think some people are more interested in a small group than others. It may be that in your area a devotional in a house does not work, but one cannot know that for certain until at least 4 or 5 people have tried it on a regular basis. Dear Janine, We don't have much choice where I live

RE: ruhi in ireland

2005-01-19 Thread Susan Maneck
purpose of my letter instead, one I think is much more urgent than the question of Ruhi in any case. I like to pick my battles and Ruhi is one I suspect I will lose. Hell, even my son is against me when it comes to that. He likes Ruhi. warmest, Susan

Re: Ruhi in Thailand

2005-01-19 Thread Firouz Anaraki
Janine: You may be right that you might not be considered qualified to give childrens classes if you have not done book 3. And that is a perfectly legitimate decision of any LSA to make. Dear Janine, Here I cannot agree with you. There have been and there are excellent children class teachers who

Re: Ruhi in Thailand

2005-01-19 Thread Popeyesays
of professional educators and long term child's education Baha`is. It would be a pompous decision indeed to assum that those professionals and veterans of Core Curriculum training would be incompetent to teach because they had not taken book 3 or 5 of the Ruhi system Regards, Scott

RE: ruhi in ireland

2005-01-18 Thread James Mock
Yes, this is one of the difficulties I find and that is that one of the principal publishers of the Ruhi materials is Palabra Publications which is associated with Paul Lample who is one of the staunchest supporters and promoters of the Study Circle engine on the ITC. I wonder too

RE: ruhi in ireland

2005-01-18 Thread Susan Maneck
Susan, it could be argued that our efforts, in general, have been less effective in urban areasOne cannot be sure that Ruhi, itself, is less effective than any other approach in urban areas. Dear James, Yes, if effectiveness is measured by an increase in human resources or entry by troops

RE: ruhi in ireland

2005-01-18 Thread Susan Maneck
, however I think it was Paul Lample who persuaded the NSA not to offer an alternative to Ruhi as they had originally tried to do and even developed the materials for. This one has never seen on this list a condemnation of the Comprehensive Deepening Materials (US in the 70s), which were produced

RE: ruhi in ireland

2005-01-18 Thread James Mock
The opposite would also be true. Areas where Baha'is are very active in study circles might experience large-scale growth just because they have active Baha'is to begin with, not because of Ruhi. I expect to see high growth, for instance, in the triangle area of North Carolina which is very

Re: ruhi in ireland

2005-01-18 Thread Popeyesays
In a message dated 1/18/2005 11:28:41 AM Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I think it would be more precise to say that Study Circles are about aProcess. Ruhi represents certain materials designed to further that process I agree. Ruhi is a curriculum. I have done four books so

RE: ruhi in ireland

2005-01-18 Thread Susan Maneck
before Ruhi arrived on the scene. At the time, though, it didn't quite fit the House's latest criteria for Study Circles. So the next few years were spent modifying it for that purpose. Then when the revised program was ready to launch it was torpedoed. What really bugs me James, is that just after

Re: ruhi in ireland

2005-01-18 Thread Popeyesays
In a message dated 1/18/2005 5:37:32 PM Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Also, I've heard Counsellor insist that tobe a homefront pioneer requires that one be prepared to set up studycircles, and in the absence of an alternative curriculum, that means Ruhi. The Southern Regiona

Re: Ruhi in Thailand

2005-01-18 Thread louise mchenry
Firouz, I am sorry for your experiences. They do not seem to be good. A couple of years ago (2 I think) there was a counsellor from Russia over in Ireland to attend a non-Bahai conference. She told us that in her town the LSA decided to offer the Ruhi book 1 as a personal development course

RE: ruhi in ireland

2005-01-18 Thread louise mchenry
Susan: In fact I was just thinking about just how visceral my reaction to Ruhi was; that I open the book and almost feel it shouting at me, We don't want you to think! But my experience of this material is probably shaped, at least in part, by the anti-intellectualism I've seen

Re: Ruhi in Thailand

2005-01-18 Thread louise mchenry
the members of LSA. I do hope somehow that all friends become more and more deepened by Ruhi or otherwise. Personally I do not count much on Ruhi. At this time I have just enough time to have a monthly fireside at my home which I do prefer it to a study circle. regards, Firouz

Re: ruhi in ireland

2005-01-18 Thread louise mchenry
:o) I must admit i was in a slightly provocative mood when I made that statement. The thing is, what I often see people call a fireside I don't think is a fireside at all. It is an official talk about what one person thinks the bahai faith is saying about a certain topic. But then, I am a

RE: Ruhi in Thailand [lonely]

2005-01-18 Thread Khazeh Fananapazir
It can be very lonely being a Bahai. I wish you much strength and love, Janine van rooij To be LONELY is almost essential in being a Bahai Thou seest this Wronged One LONELY in exile: Where are the hosts of the heaven of Thy Command, O Sovereign of the worlds? (Baha'u'llah:

RE: ruhi in ireland

2005-01-18 Thread louise mchenry
taught me that a bit as well, because what it says about how to treat children is very much applicable to adults. To everybody. Book 4 was fun to do but did not teach me much. I am good at story telling and holding on to facts and I knew a lot of the history already. The social aspect of ruhi

RE: ruhi in ireland, Abdu'l-Baha about unity

2005-01-18 Thread louise mchenry
Dear Susan, One does not exclude the other. I also feel that your interpretation of what Abdu'l-Baha is trying to do is too narrow. I think it does apply not only to assembly members, but to all of the community. I will later post some quotes for the reason why I think this, when I am back at a

RE: Ruhi in Ireland

2005-01-18 Thread Khazeh Fananapazir
Can I beg you all most humbly most supplicatingly to leave this sort of discussion about discussion about slander about Ruhi? I have noted such discussions become rapidly very very divisive. It can sunder and divide a most dear friend from a post code in nz from one in Ireland...or one from

RE: ruhi in ireland

2005-01-18 Thread Susan Maneck
. But if it means we divide our resources so that we are having lots of little meetings at individuals homes, I think it will be self-defeating. Seekers want to attend worship services at neutral venues. If I offer the ruhi book 1 to a friend, I will ask for feedback of that friend, and if the friend

Re: ruhi in ireland

2005-01-17 Thread Mark A. Foster
Janine, At 10:31 PM 1/16/2005, you wrote: and it is too fundamentalistic in approach. You hit on one of my pet peeves. The Ruhi method, as I have seen it conducted (and as I have heard from most other people), *is*, IMO, fundamentalist, and I am concerned it is being promoted

Re: ruhi in ireland

2005-01-17 Thread louise mchenry
Hi Mark, Oh dear. This could easily end in a pro-contra ruhi debate. When I hear objections to things I always want to try to assess how much of these objections are based in truth. The same when I hear glorification of things. how many people OUTSIDE the USA do you know who have gone through

Re: ruhi in ireland

2005-01-17 Thread Smaneck
In a message dated 1/17/2005 10:37:49 A.M. Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The same when I hear glorification of things. how many people OUTSIDE the USA do you know who have gone through the ruhi books, who have done more than one? Dear Janine, If most people

Re: ruhi in ireland

2005-01-17 Thread louise mchenry
? there is a lot of good in the Irish approach as well. That is what I have discovered. And I am wondering if this cannot be said of Ruhi. That we are used to do things in a certain way and are thrown and prone to reject it when a new way of doing things is offered to us. Especially if we live in a culture

Re: ruhi in ireland, addition.

2005-01-17 Thread louise mchenry
I forgot one thing. I want to ask you all, both in favour and those not in favour of ruhi, how sure you are you are objective, you follow the tablet of the true seeker in this and how ready you are to throw preconceived ideas and notions overboard. It is a question I invite you to ask yourself

RE: ruhi in ireland

2005-01-17 Thread louise mchenry
Chuckle! No Ruhi is not academic. I omitted something there. What I intended was: if you live in a culture whihc has a strong subculture of anti-intellectualism and then a method is introduced which is not appealing to the intellect, it can create a strong bias against that method. You say

RE: ruhi in ireland

2005-01-17 Thread Susan Maneck
was just thinking about just how visceral my reaction to Ruhi was; that I open the book and almost feel it shouting at me, We don't want you to think! But my experience of this material is probably shaped, at least in part, by the anti-intellectualism I've seen in the community at large. You say

Re: ruhi in ireland

2005-01-17 Thread Popeyesays
In a message dated 1/17/2005 12:21:51 PM Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Maybe it is a good thing that firesides have stopped, The NSA has made cleaqr over and over in the U.S. that the institute process should NOT make firesides and deepenings stop. If it is, then attitudes

RE: ruhi in ireland

2005-01-17 Thread Susan Maneck
. There is only so much of it to go around and right now that energy is being expended on Ruhi, leaving little time for firesides and deepenings. That being the case though, I have to question the extent to which Ruhi reaches its goal of increasing human resources? warmest, Susan

RE: ruhi in ireland

2005-01-17 Thread Susan Maneck
Dear Scott, What Abdu'l-Baha was trying to do was make sure that individual Assembly members did not undermine the authority of the institution as a whole by opposing the decision that body made. For them not to act in unity under these circumstances is rather like parents arguing discipline

RE: ruhi in ireland

2005-01-17 Thread Steve Cooney
In fact, even our NSA seems to have largely been shut out of the process. It mostly came down from the ITC, which as you know, is not an elected institution. Yes, this is one of the difficulties I find and that is that one of the principal publishers of the Ruhi materials is Palabra Publications

Ruhi in Thailand

2005-01-17 Thread Firouz Anaraki
I would like to add a few of my personal observations about Ruhi in Thailand. The emphasis during last 5 years or so have been on Ruhi Study Circles, devotional meetings, and children classes here in Thailand (specially Ruhi SC). In Yasothan in North East of Thailand where a Baha'i school

RE: Ruhi in Thailand

2005-01-17 Thread Susan Maneck
But personally I did not enjoy the SC method of Teaching the Faith. Dear Firouz, Don't confuse Ruhi with Study Circles per se. Ruhi is just the curriculum which has been adopted in most areas for Study Circles. Once when I disagreed about a given comment in one of the Ruhi books, I was sort

ruhi in ireland

2005-01-16 Thread louise mchenry
Dear all, I read some of the posts on ruhi on this list with interest. From what I am getting from the USA Bahais at various places on the internet it seems that in the USA Ruhi is tutored in quite a strict way, with a lot of emphasis on 'how it is supposed to be taught'. In Ireland we

Re: No Personal Opinions in Ruhi

2004-12-10 Thread Smaneck
process used by Ruhi. Dear Mark, This is how the term is used by Abdu'l-Baha in the Seven Candles of Unity: "The second candle is unity of thought in world undertakings, the consummation of which will erelong be witnessed" That's seems to refer more to the UN reaching a consensus th

Re: No Personal Opinions in Ruhi

2004-12-10 Thread Mark A. Foster
introduced. The study circle brings together a variety of people with a variety of opinions in a harmonious, welcoming atmosphere of learning (IMO). I would be interested in the demographics of long-term Ruhi participation and how it correlates with the general Baha'i populations in different areas

Re: Ruhi, Prolonged Discussions

2004-12-10 Thread Popeyesays
and the conclusion I drew was that the Ruhi editors opinion (personal interpretation) is supposed to supersede what the Writings say about reading the revelations and meditating upon them. Reading the text and meditating on the text is what the writings TELL us to do. Yet the Ruhi editors see

Re: No Personal Opinions in Ruhi

2004-12-10 Thread Dick Detweiler
I said: Seems a tad hypocritical to me but that is just my take on this whole exchange. I just want to say that after I posted I noted that here is someone who has taken a year long vacation from just about anything Baha'i telling others to get off their fanny and do something. Dick Am I the

Re: No Personal Opinions in Ruhi

2004-12-10 Thread Popeyesays
to be. But I'd have a hard time believing they'd get in the way. I doubt the House would object to any degree with developing new material. It is not the House that is pushing Ruhi. It is the Regional Teaching Institutes who will brook no variance. They say we HAVE Ruhi, so we should USE Ruhi

RE: No Personal Opinions in Ruhi

2004-12-10 Thread Susan Maneck
I doubt the House would object to any degree with developing new material. It is not the House that is pushing Ruhi. It is the Regional Teaching Institutes who will brook no variance. They say we HAVE Ruhi, so we should USE Ruhi and not waste time developing other material

Re: Ruhi, Prolonged Discussions

2004-12-10 Thread Popeyesays
In a message dated 12/10/2004 11:22:04 PM Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The problem is that they appear to make an exception with their own comments. Which is precisely what has always perturbed me with reading Ruhi method material. Regards, Scott

Re: Ruhi, Prolonged Discussions

2004-12-10 Thread Smaneck
to support the assertion that the Writings said something or other, the tutor insisted it must be right because the House of Justice had approved of these materials. Similarly, when I suggested to a Board Member that Ruhi be revised by removing pilgrim's notes and not asking close-ended questions

Re: Ruhi, Prolonged Discussions

2004-12-10 Thread Mark A. Foster
Scott, Ruhi wrote: We believe that the simple habit of thinking about the implications of the Writings with the minimum of personal interpretation would eliminate a great share of the disagreements that afflict consultation in many communities, You replied to Ruhi: In other words the opinions

Re: No Personal Opinions in Ruhi

2004-12-10 Thread Mark A. Foster
, unity of thought refers to keeping one's mind and heart centered on Baha'u'llah and `Abdu'l-Baha, i.e., the Covenant. It has nothing directly to do with the fundamentalist indoctrination process used by Ruhi. Mark A. Foster * http://markfoster.net Sacred cows make the tastiest hamburger -- Abbie

re: Ruhi, Ruhi Method Rigidity

2004-12-10 Thread Brent Poirier
Tutor: I don't think any of the ideas you have described is wrong or undesirable in principle. The problem is .that referring to them as elements of a Ruhi method introduces rigidity into a process that is otherwise simple, joyful, and sensitive to a diversity of needs. For example, you all

Re: No Personal Opinions in Ruhi

2004-12-10 Thread Michael Alcorn
PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, December 10, 2004 1:53 PM Subject: Re: No Personal Opinions in Ruhi In a message dated 12/10/2004 7:04:01 A.M. Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: unity of thought refers to keeping one's mind and heart centered on Baha'u'llah and `Abdu'l-Baha, i.e

Re: No Personal Opinions in Ruhi

2004-12-10 Thread Dick Detweiler
From: Mark A. Foster [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: Baha'i Studies [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Baha'i Studies [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: No Personal Opinions in Ruhi Date: Fri, 10 Dec 2004 08:45:32 -0600 On the one hand you say: I would be interested in the demographics of long-term Ruhi participation

Re: No Personal Opinions in Ruhi

2004-12-10 Thread Mark A. Foster
Hi, Dick, At 09:14 AM 12/10/2004, you wrote: On the one hand you say: I would be interested in the demographics of long-term Ruhi participation and how it correlates with the general Baha'i populations in different areas. My guess* would is that we would see a negative correlation between

Re: Ruhi, Prolonged Discussions

2004-12-10 Thread Michael Alcorn
That is not true! One cannot fail to meditate on the writings after going through the sequence. - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Baha'i Studies [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, December 10, 2004 5:41 PM Subject: Re: Ruhi, Prolonged Discussions In a message dated 12/10

Re: Ruhi, Prolonged Discussions

2004-12-10 Thread Popeyesays
In a message dated 12/10/2004 11:38:05 PM Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Dear Scott, It may be tempting to believe this, but I'm sure it is not what the editors think they are doing. I am sure it isn't what they think they are saying, but I think that is also

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