11-15-2021, 02:07 PM
(11-14-2021, 05:51 PM)zedro Wrote: My decision has always been from "internal" guidance and foreknowledge of a massive imminent catalyst/crisis, where I was warned "family and friends will become enemies", [...]
A decade and a half ago I was feeling very pessimistic about the future, and thought it would ultimately end up one in which I was pretty alone against the world.
Then I spent some years sucked into a cult, and upon making my way out of there, I can see that if I had gone the opposite way, then I would probably have ended up perceiving the world the way I had earlier feared it would turn out, as a result of embracing the cult's us vs. them attitude and being led into a maximally conflicting stance. And also, out there in the world at large, came a polarizing of attitudes in which much of the spiritual and alternative medicine world now has the same basic us vs. them attitude in relation to the whole mainstream world (including mainstream science) as the cult I was in had a decade earlier.
Now I wonder how the collective situation will develop. Basically, will the polarizing of attitudes eventually lead to widespread extremism and some level of senseless destruction and then a backlash with suppression through force from the mainstream world, or will it all calm down again? I think many "alternative" movements are being played towards the more brutal outcome at present, towards catching that train.
Considering the nature of the mainstream world in Western countries, compared to cultish movements, I now think it's the latter that would take the initiative in bringing about escalation leading to freedom of speech and belief finally being lost. That's from the rooting, however incomplete, of the mainstream world in the old Enlightenment philosophy (something which the religious right has all along tried to uproot, and the alt-right is more recently trying to destroy).
(11-14-2021, 05:51 PM)zedro Wrote: Those who bring up what mainstream media vs so called conspiracy media narratives say are completely missing the point, the Ra Material has all the guidance you need in these matters, what I find interesting is how the teachings are selectivity ignored to advance one's own projections and illusions/fears, and spiritually bypassed with the concept of Love, which I rarely see as fully actualized/realized, as it's still shrouded by the Law of Confusion.
There's the old spiritual bypassing, widely described and understood by those not engaging in it for decades, and there's the conspiratorial bypassing, which in this community is vaguely and imprecisely described as "fear-based" mentality, and there's various weird mixtures of the two -- among other things to consider. Sometimes, people who used to spend years submerged in one of them suddenly flip and become submerged in the other instead, equally bypassing. I think conspiratorial bypassing has been growing in popularity in the world at large as of late, many of those embracing it being those previously most engaged in spiritual bypassing.