Comments on: GNFC https://rishiknots.com/2008/04/19/gnfc/ Born and raised in 3HO Sikh Dharma Kundalini Yoga Fri, 29 May 2020 19:46:02 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.4.13 By: Anonymous https://rishiknots.com/2008/04/19/gnfc/comment-page-1/#comment-110 Thu, 14 May 2009 03:30:46 +0000 https://rishiknots.com/2008/04/19/gnfc/#comment-110 OMG, I thought I was alone. I could have wrote that post word for word. I was sent to GNFC in 1986. I dont have very fond memories at all. The physical and mental abuse was unparalleled. I believe that those negative experiences made me a stronger person. I can survive anything. I have a great life and have been successful in all of my endeavors. I am a firefighter/EMT, have 2 beautiful children and a great wife. Being a parent of 2 kids, I can’t even fathom sending my children to a 3rd world country. I think my parents must have had an emotional disconnect. Your right, 3HO is a cult. I look forward to further posts.

]]> By: indiakids blog https://rishiknots.com/2008/04/19/gnfc/comment-page-1/#comment-144 Thu, 03 Jul 2008 22:26:03 +0000 https://rishiknots.com/2008/04/19/gnfc/#comment-144 Thank you for commenting. It makes me so happy to hear that these memories I’m sharing are possibly having a positive (though hard) effect. I wish you the best in working with your kids – as they are probably friends of mine to this day, and I only wish them the best too.

Isn’t great though, that the large majority of us Indiakids are not in 3HO, and are productive and functional?

]]> By: Anonymous https://rishiknots.com/2008/04/19/gnfc/comment-page-1/#comment-145 Thu, 03 Jul 2008 22:23:18 +0000 https://rishiknots.com/2008/04/19/gnfc/#comment-145 Hello from Colorado, where I am a parent of two (now)adults, who, as children, were students at Guru Nanak 5th Centenary School in Mussoorie, UP, India.I have just finished reading all of the entries on your blog and I am in tears. I left 3HO long ago due to my perception that it was quite dysfunctional and I was not a happy person , but am now experiencing a growing realization of the severe damage that was potentially inflicted upon our beloved children. I was particularly touched by the comment that Kelly’s parents (I think it was…) tend to not accept responsibility for what happened to the kids in India, because I have been living under the same delusion for 31 years…that I was merely a parent trying to do the right thing for my kids by sending them away to a foreign environment to be “trained”; well, my kids survived and I am proud to say that they are healthy humans in spite of the India debaucle, but I can see that I have a lot of work to do with my issues around what happened in India. I heartily concur that Nanak Dev was a tyrant, completely un-educated in child psychology, and more into stroking himself than truly assisting the children. I visited in India more than once and saw personally the terror that his presence, “discipline” and activities evoked. Thank you for including his email address, as I will soon write to him and share my thoughts. I will follow your blog and try to share it with my son and daughter…perhaps some meaningful resolution of issues related to the “India experience” can still be gained. Thank you for opening this topic up for me again, best wishes that it is a helpful tool for those who have suffered in the past and now also seek meaningful resolution.

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