(snip) " An excellent point. One of the *foundations* of > the True Believer mentality is "if this person > taught me or told me one thing that has proved > useful or true, then everything he says is useful > and true." Extrapolating from this assumption, > over time True Believers put the leader of their > mass movement up on a pedestal and tend to auto- > matically believe *everything* they say. They > start to assume that the leader has a special > "presence" that normal people don't have. The next, > and IMO most dangerous step, is when they start > to assume that anyone who doesn't feel and act the > same way, and who doesn't put the leader up on the > same pedestal that they do is "attacking" him, or > not giving him the "proper" respect that he is due."
This sounds like a perfect description of Hitler's rise to power, and the view that der Fuehrer had becoming a 'God' of sorts, to his followers. Similar things happened in Rome with Julius Caesar, and his notion of being a 'God'. For a certain time President Bush, was regarded by the Christian right, as a kind of 'Good against evil, kind of guy'...many still do. So, perhaps you are describing an ~Archetype~, that seems to be a re- occurring theme; Whether you create an ashram, a religion or a nation-state; There is human ego, which vies for power; And replays itself, in these ways... But, more than this, I still get an intuitive feeling, that because the vibrations of which you speak, remind me so much of the period of the Third Reich, and the feeling of superiority, and purity of race, and superior knowledge and even archetecture; organic food too; Many of the same attitudes and strict concepts of the Nazi regime; To conclude that many of the souls involved in that period; are working out their karma in the TM movement... The lesson would primarily be; That we're all here in the same boat; no one is superior to anyone else; We're here to help each other; And not to compete and judge, and all the rest, [which causes seperateness and bad feelings, and results]. All of the lessons of arrogance, superiority, and the rest; Still need some work, in this community... R.G. To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
