Beware the Kabalarians

The Kabalarians are a group in Vancouver that advocate for changing your name.  They do this for money, lots of money.

They derive their teachings from a yogic system named Yantra yoga.  However really they are watering down the precision (and karmic instruction to give it away for free) of Yantra for the sake of financial gain and keeping their organization alive.

Their organization has been hit by numerous scandals, the usual thing with cults and cult leaders – sex scandals involving the leaders with multiple young women raised in the group, raised in groupthink.  Legal action has been taken and the leader was found guilty as charged.  Further court cases are in the works.

Naturally this raises the question if the balanced names work so well why:

• did the leader(s) abuse their position, as the courts have found?
• did the followers acquiesce, as is reported by them and others?
• did the parents not do something about it, as many non-”balanced name” parents would have?

Today the Kabalarian centre has a distinctly run-down feel. Aggressive sales on the part of some old school members keeps it afloat.

A teacher of Yantra, who gives away more advanced numerology instruction, says quite clearly that the leader of the Kabalarians – Alfred “J” Parker (who did not change his name although he advocated everybody else to!?) – changed the women to a 6 total and men and women to a 6 plane of mind so often so as to control his followers.

In Yantra there are supposedly strong karmic penalties for messing with the original system.  Alfred Parker did die young.

Note: At this time I will not be publishing insulting comments from Kabalarians or Kabalarian advocates. I may choose in the future to publish them as they speak for themselves.

Post #1: Experiments in Numerology

Welcome to this blog! We will be focusing on numerology here with the occasional detour into other branches of esoterica and human potential. Over time this blog will be transferred over to a pure numerology blog.

So why numerology?

Numerology is unusual.

First, it has the possibility of being a true science because it has a mathematical basis.

Second, if anyone has ever changed their name they will likely notice it has an effect.  It may not be the desired effect, but changing your name does something.

Third, numerology both describes a person and their supposed destiny and also allows for the potential for change via changing one’s name or the names of a business.

This new blog and website is an experiment in numerology.  We will be covering systems of numerology and examining organizations like the Kabalarians and whether their claims and conduct meet their claims.

Does what people claim about numerology correspond with the facts? Is it all false? Or is some of it true?

Do you have thoughts about numerology?  Things you’ve noticed?  Please share.