The Long Agony of Top-Down Denial Mechanisms
Nov 15, 2006 07:00 AM
by carlosaveline
The process by which top-down denial mechanisms are eroded in pseudo-occult organizations is slow and gradual, up to the moment when the general structural change comes.
In the case of the Soviet Union and Berlin's Wall, for instance, we saw a long process of politically controlled denial, until Michail Gorbachev "opened the process". The fall of Berlin's Wall was the culmination of the opening process.
In the case of the Adyar TS, the very fact that the Adyar leaders "stopped receiving messages from the Masters", in 1953, when N. Sri Ram took over, means that in a silent Sri Ram was admitting that those earlier messages and clairvoyant visions were fake, or illusory.
Yet from silent admitting things (Radha Burnier) to openly looking at them and publicly processing the necessary historical lessons -- there are one or two decisive steps to be taken.
History will probably provide them in due time.
Carlos.
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Data:Wed, 15 Nov 2006 01:45:36 -0000
Assunto:Theos-World Re: The Best Part Of History
> I imagine denial strategies probably last a fair while.
>
> With AMORC, outsiders' understandings of the group have been strongly
> changed over the last fifteen years due to a few factors, among them
> the growth of the Internet - increasing the awareness of Americans in
> particular that there were a number of other groups out there, many
> of which had stronger claims to Rosicrucian primacy than AMORC.
>
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