Part 15. The Keshe Knowledge Seekers Workshops

Part 15 turns to a modern movement that the LSN library holds in unusual depth. It holds hundreds of weekly teaching transcripts, three books, two patent applications, newsletters and chat logs. The movement is the Keshe Foundation (KF), and its…

The Knowledge Seekers Workshops (KSW) are the main channel through which Mehran Tavakoli Keshe taught. They were also the meeting place of the community that formed around him. They began in spring 2014 as online sessions on reactors and “GANS”…

Keshe’s teachings on religion and politics, covered in the next chapters, rest on a physical theory he calls “plasma science”. In that theory the soul, the Creator, food, healing and space flight are all explained as interactions of magnetic and…

Mehran Tavakoli Keshe’s metaphysics rests on a small set of terms that recur in hundreds of Knowledge Seekers Workshops (KSW): the Soul of the Creator (STC), the Soul of the Man (STM), the Soul of Physicality (STP) and Physicality (P).…

In Keshe’s late teaching, Mitra replaces every named religion as the reference point. Earlier parts of this study followed the Indo-Iranian Mithra of the Avesta and the Roman mystery god Mithras through the scholarly literature. Keshe treats both as a…

Keshe grew up in Iran. In his own telling he attended a Tehran school where Zoroastrian, Muslim, Christian, Bahá’í and Jewish pupils shared one classroom, and he describes a family background that is both Jewish and Muslim. His statements about…

Christianity gets more attention in the Knowledge Seekers Workshops (KSW) than any other tradition. Mehran Tavakoli Keshe returns to it in two registers. The first is a reinterpretation of its central events. In his account the crucifixion is a self-judgment,…

Mehran Tavakoli Keshe was born in Iran. In the Knowledge Seekers Workshops (KSW) he speaks about Islam mostly through the case of Shia Iran and its clergy. His religious claims about Muhammad, Mecca and the ayatollahs run into his political…

Mehran Tavakoli Keshe’s religious critique, set out in the previous chapters, comes with a political programme. Its slogan, “One Nation, One Planet, One Race”, stands for a borderless world without armies. Under the programme, governments receive plasma technology in exchange…

The previous chapters of Part 15 set out Mehran Tavakoli Keshe’s cosmology, his account of the soul, and his readings of Mithra, Christ and Muhammad. This closing chapter does three things. It lists the dated predictions and “Promised Days” announced…