Re: The Long Agony of Top-Down Denial Mechanisms
Nov 15, 2006 04:01 PM
by 'Cuervo'
--- In theos-talk@yahoogroups.com, "carlosaveline"
<carlosaveline@...> wrote:
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> 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.
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> 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.
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>
> 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.
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> 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.
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> History will probably provide them in due time.
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>
> Carlos.
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> Para:theos-talk@yahoogroups.com
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> Data:Wed, 15 Nov 2006 01:45:36 -0000
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> Assunto:Theos-World Re: The Best Part Of History
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> > 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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