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******** --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Carol" <jchwelch@...> wrote: > > Google that quote! ;) > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_One_Here_Gets_Out_Alive > > Interesting. > > ************** > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Share Long <sharelong60@> wrote: > > > > I'm quoting but I forget who (-: > > > > > > > > > > ________________________________ > > From: Carol <jchwelch@> > > To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com > > Sent: Wednesday, May 15, 2013 9:42 AM > > Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Are you in a cult? > > > > > > > > Â > > *chuckle* > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Share Long <sharelong60@> wrote: > > > > > > No body gets out of here alive (-: > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > ________________________________ > > > From: Carol <jchwelch@> > > > To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com > > > Sent: Wednesday, May 15, 2013 9:14 AM > > > Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Are you in a cult? > > > > > > > > > > > > ÃÂ > > > Enjoyed this piece. For me, it's a light-hearted way to shake me up a > > > little and be more aware to endeavor to hear my own heart. > > > > > > I like the first comment on the blog: > > > Submitted by Visitor (not verified) on April 26, 2013 - 1:42pm. > > > "and then freedom, or awakening becomes the 'cult' ... we never escape > > > ..." > > > > > > Ha! > > > > > > ************ > > > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Rick Archer" <rick@> wrote: > > > > > > > > From: Integral Spiritual Practice > > > > [mailto:integralpractice@] > > > > Sent: Tuesday, May 14, 2013 12:01 PM > > > > To: rick@ > > > > Subject: Are you in a cult? > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Dear Rick, > > > > > > > > Are you in a cult? > > > > > > > > Here's the short answer: "You bet." And, worse, it's most likely an > > > > invisible cult! > > > > > > > > Okay, you're probably not a member of "a new religious movement or other > > > > group whose beliefs or practices are considered abnormal or bizarre by > > > > the > > > > larger society". > > > > > > > > But you're almost certainly a member in good standing of the Public > > > > Cult of > > > > the World, whose beliefs and practices are bizarre and abnormal by any > > > > objective healthy standard. After all, as the Dalai Lama has pointed > > > > out, in > > > > the Cult of the World you: > > > > > > > > "...sacrifice your health in order to make money. Then you sacrifice > > > > money > > > > to recuperate your health. Then you are so anxious about the future > > > > that you > > > > don't enjoy the present: the result being that you do not live in the > > > > present or the future; you live as if you are never going to die, and > > > > then > > > > you die having never really lived." > > > > > > > > It's a totally crazy way to live, when you look directly at it! But > > > > among us > > > > members of the ubiquitous and invisible Cult, it seems the natural > > > > order of > > > > things, unremarkable and inevitable. The Cult reinforces and conceals a > > > > great many other unwritten rules, invisible beliefs and unexamined > > > > assumptions too. (One example: the Cult inculcates you day and night > > > > with > > > > the message that you're a separate individual who must compete to > > > > "succeed" > > > > and build up a big, impressive ego-domain, or otherwise you're a > > > > "failure".) > > > > > > > > Some of the Cult's beliefs may be crazy (and make you miserable) but as > > > > soon > > > > as you start questioning them, you're the one who's risking madness. > > > > After > > > > all, you'd be departing from the Public Cult of the World's "consensus > > > > reality" (which is what defines insanity). > > > > > > > > One of the strictest rules of the Cult is the taboo against > > > > acknowledging > > > > that the Cult even exists. Thus, every day while you're working hard and > > > > focusing intelligently on your priorities, you're also being lulled back > > > > into being oblivious to the Cult and its bondage. > > > > > > > > You're being drawn into what consciousness researcher Charles Tart > > > > memorably > > > > dubbed "the Consensus Trance". He described it as "a state of partly > > > > suspended animation, of stupor, of inability to function at [y]our > > > > maximum > > > > level... [dominated by] automatic and conditioned patterns of > > > > perception, > > > > thinking, feeling and behaving..." > > > > > > > > Is there any escape from the Cult? Sure, but here's the paradox: to > > > > leave > > > > the Cult you'll have to risk being seen as...joining a cult! The > > > > official > > > > Public Cult of the World won't provide any support if you want to wake > > > > up > > > > from the consensus trance. And if you find someone who has in some sense > > > > awakened and who offers to help you wake up, or if you band together > > > > with > > > > others for mutual support in waking up from the trance so you can leave > > > > the > > > > Cult....now that's when your family might start to ask "Hey, have you > > > > joined > > > > a cult"? > > > > > > > > Maddeningly, your family (and critics) will probably be right! Most > > > > small > > > > groups, however healthy and intelligent their premises might be, readily > > > > develop "groupthink" dynamics that can easily become unhealthy, and even > > > > dangerously "cultic". > > > > > > > > And yet without support and teaching, you're just going to be sucked > > > > back > > > > into the consensus trance and the mediocrity of the Public Cult of the > > > > World. > > > > > > > > What to do? > > > > > > > > Well, you can recognize that the consensus trance and the "programming" > > > > of > > > > the Cult is everywhere and that going in and out of trance is a > > > > constant, > > > > on-going process. As you do, it will become obvious that waking up from > > > > the > > > > trance needs to happen again and again, in many little moments of > > > > choice. > > > > This is what I mean by "practice" --- that choice to live deliberately, > > > > to > > > > embrace a way of life that's fully alive, always evolving, spontaneously > > > > in-the-moment, self-aware, humorous and free. (This is the core of the > > > > "Integral Spiritual Practice > > > > <http://click.e.evolvingwisdom.com/?qs=25c601ea8e0de1d61695affe716d537855c77 > > > > 379117f20a921a45c29a6b5363e05cb13fd718cfdc9> " I teach.) > > > > > > > > From this perspective, yes, you're in the big Cult, the one that keeps > > > > re-hypnotizing you back into the consensus trance. The point is this: > > > > you > > > > can "leave the cult" now --- in this very moment. May you do so, and > > > > may you > > > > keep leaving it, by waking up! Again and again and again --- every day, > > > > for > > > > the rest of your life. > > > > > > > > To your practice and awakening and freedom, > > > > > > > > Terry > > > > > > > > P.S. If you'd like to comment on this blog you can do so here > > > > <http://click.e.evolvingwisdom.com/?qs=25c601ea8e0de1d6d814fa7ddb98dce1b67dc > > > > d1b067775bab011d9905329524d43cec6b0fb51020d> . > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > <http://click.e.evolvingwisdom.com/open.aspx?ffcb10-fe9a16757767047574-fdf61 > > > > 6717462027f7c117777-fea315707364077f75-fecb167076670c79-fe2617727664027a701c > > > > 77-ff981675&d=40026> > > > > > > > > > >
