Theos-Talk Archives (April 2005 Message tt00368)

adelasie wrote:

<< Each one who feels drawn to the 
study, who feels that here is something 
important, or comforting, or useful, or 
helpful, or stimulating, or worth 
sharing, or inspirational, or in any way
however feels that his or her life has 
been somehow changed by contact with 
this ancient lore, has made a difference 
to the evolution of the whole human 
race. This is what matters.
Administration is somewhat less 
important. >>>>>

If such broader views were prevelant 
enough on this planet, I suspect that 
things might tend to be somewhat different.

I just read in Gordon Urquhart's THE 
POPE'S ARMADA that Pope-approved 
Catholic cults have totalitarian, 
fundamentalist, extreme right-wing 
administrators who, I suspect, wouldn't 
agree with your approach as stated in 
that post if it involved any kind of 
self-induced thoughts or efforts. The 
author spent nine years at one of those 
cults (Focolare). Quoting from page 67:

<<Out minds, attitudes and beliefs were 
to be radically changed, not through a 
gradual process of learning and growth 
of personal conviction but through an 
intensive barrage which would often be 
quite openly referred to, jokingly, as 
brainwashing.>>

Not that one person's brainwashing, 
importantance, comfort, usefulness, etc, 
might not be another's whatever.

Speculatively,
Mauri