ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the type of negotiations made use of by the University and its membership in managing its millenarianism and current world-ambivalence. Within the University there are the institutional strategies through which the theodical bifurcation, levels of membership and, by extension, the different 'millenniums' are managed and negotiated. This is achieved through two main, related techniques; the literal and metaphorical spatialisation of members and the reflexive deployment of metaphor. In many ways the 'Advance Party' may be envisaged as the Protestant reformers to the Brahma Kumaris' mediaeval Catholic Church. Following Tanya Luhrmann, two major areas of potential dissonance may be noted within the University. Firstly, there is the possible dissonance between what is claimed in Raja Yoga and what is held by the scientific, geological, archaeological and historical orthodoxy. Secondly, there is the dissonance engendered by the individual elements of Raja Yoga or the University's world-ambivalence.
