particularly one that claims to have ultimate and extra special knowledge -------------------------------------------- On Sat, 2/15/14, salyavin808 <[email protected]> wrote:
Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Drink Vedic Coffee and Support Peace To: [email protected] Date: Saturday, February 15, 2014, 6:26 PM You don't need any leader to be a cult. All you need is a belief system that sets you apart from the norm. cult [kuhlt] noun1.a particular system of religious worship, especially with reference to its rites and ceremonies.2.an instance of great veneration of a person, ideal, or thing, especially as manifested by a body of admirers: the physical fitness cult.3.the object of such devotion.4.a group or sect bound together by veneration of the same thing, person, ideal, etc. I think the belief in unified fields of consciousness being affected by your meditation for the benefit of all mankind sets you out as a cult, and that's before you get to the secret language and belief in Marshy's ultimate knowledge of life through vedic literature. We all got duped into believing it, it's how cults work, the separation from normal society, the peer group that already believes. These things work to produce fellow believers, it's only amtter of time before new meditator quits or gets to learn the lingo and becomes "one of us". At our academy, and I doubt US ones were any different, we had special weekends for new meditators where the food was more normal than typical movement muck and the language and tapes were for beginners, to get them into it gently without scaring them off. I'm not saying that Marshy and the TMO sat there with a copy of "How to start a cult" but all the methods of indoctrination are understood by sociologists and they are all present.The first ploy is to always give "knowledge" lectures after meditating when the mind is at its most relaxed and pliable. You soak it up like a sponge, they even tell you not to think about it but to let it sink in unconsciously. Hmm, maybe they do have a copy of How to start a cult... But the TMO can't be classed as a destructive cult, they never make any attempt to split up families or harass former members. But it does take quite some time to deprogramme yourself from all the absurd and incredible beliefs that you pick up without realising when your defences are down.
