What is Eckankar?

What is Eckankar?

Eckankar is called Religion of Light and Sound of GOD.  Eckankar teaches about Dreams, Past Lives and Soul Travel or out-of body- experiences. The teachings have two facets: inner teachings and outer teachings. The inner teachings or secret teachings are the cornerstone of eckankar. That is where occult practices and rituals unknown to the members take place. Members cannot travel alone in the inner or spiritual worlds of eckankar. They are always followed by the spiritual leader and the only thing they experience is love. The love they experience called "divine love", consumes their whole being and they cannot do anything by themselves. The full title of the spiritual leader is the mahanta, the living eck master. Mahanta is his spiritual title. The current spiritual leader is Harold Klemp. He is also the dream master or inner master. He lives in Minneapolis Minnesota, home of eckankar headquarters. 

The second facet of the eck teachings is the outer teachings. Eck means holy spirit in eckankar. The outer teachings consist in seminars, worship services, classes, and all kind of activities to recruit people. In reality, all these activities are "cover ups" because the spiritual leader cannot perform any healing or any miracle in the physical world front of people like JESUS did by walking on water, healing and resurrecting people. As outer master, Harold Klemp writes books, discourses, and speaks at majors seminars. Discourses are series of lessons sent to members only.  They must study one lesson every month and participate to group discussion. Eckankar holds regional seminars around the world and two major seminars in Minneapolis Convention Center every year, Easter week-end and approximately 3^rd week end of October. Harold Klemp works from home, signs documents and apparently appears on public twice a year to speak at major seminars. The President of eckankar, Peter Skelskey, has been given lots of power to lead the church. Eckankar is not like any other religion where you can communicate freely with your pastor, no. The spiritual leader meets members in their dreams to solve their problems but they are never aware of what really takes place.

Eckankar also has ancient ECK Masters who operate like angels. These Masters are not always in human flesh, but they appear to members in their dreams. One of them is called Rebazar Tarzs. He is said to be over 500 years old, is in his physical body, and appears as 25 years old and rescues members of Eckankar in time of need.

Initiation in Eckankar

There are always 2 initiations in eckankar: inner initiation and outer initiation. Members are not aware of what take place in their dreams during the inner initiation with the spiritual leader. They wake up very happy, feeling bonded with the master, not knowing that they consumed human blood and human flesh. After I left eckankar, the spiritual leader confessed to me that initiation in eckankar is all about human blood. Members are now bonded to the spiritual leader and cannot leave him unless they come to Jesus Christ.  Members are now covenanted with the Master through by his blood. After this ceremony in dreams, a pink slip is sent to the member acknowledging that he or she is ready for the outer initiation. The outer initiation is like a cover up, where a member of clergy meets the new initiate for formal ceremony. The member of clergy reads from the Shariyat Ki Sugmad, the Bible of eckankar, and then, gives a secret word to the new initiate.

The spiritual leader was forced to open the secrets doors of eckankar to me because he said God wants me to become the next spiritual leader therefore, he must prepare me. Beside the normal initiation, he had a secret covenant with me by introducing something bloody inside me in 1995. There are 14 levels of initiation in eckankar. When members reach the fifth initiation, they become higher initiate or members of the clergy.