Organized Without "Organizationalism"

Life is mud and diamonds. But you gotta go through a mountain of the former to discover the latter. In the end, it is worth every minute, because the diamondmoments are so truly, breath-takingly beautiful! The really good jewels are awesome enough to bring tears of joy!:)

Was there a "gem" (redeeming aspect) in the cult in which i was reared? The Enlightenment Tradition teaches that there is good in everything, so it is an obligation to seek out that good. The last chapter of the book Jehovah Lives in Brooklyn is about all the good stuff learned through the cult.

The cult did teach how NOT to do things, or how to do things WRONGLY. And these are important, nay, crucial aspects of learning. The Soul placed me, via predestination of the spiritual path, in the nutty little microcult for a good reason: That was an invaluable part of spiritual education. It proved beyond the shadow of any reasonable doubt that cults are mind-ruining, antifreedom, and antihuman.

Its great darkness contrasted sharply, vividly with the Light. It was a full education in understanding the backwardsness and close-mindedness of fundies. Understanding this mindset has provided film-clips of the mind that explain Pentecostals, some Baptists, and a wide variety of other fundies. It has emblazoned on the psyche the great lesson, Fundies are no fun!:)

It sets the alarmbells ringing against cultism. Every spiritual teacher is in the perfect position to "start a cult." Indeed, a cult can start around her without her permission! The only antidote: The teacher must maintain a penetrating awareness of this continual danger; and she must give continuous warnings against the dangers of cultism, which are serious and many.

Shortly after the death of so great a figure as Jesus, his followers broke into two groups who are still with us: The ones who wanted to imitate Jesus, and find within what he had found, and the Jesus-cultists. The latter wanted him to do all the work, while their "worship" was a matter of simply falling down at his feet. The "faith of Christ" demanded hard work in selfrenewal; the "cult of Jesus" demanded very, very little; any hypocrite could "join." Jesus himself did not like the idea of a cult forming around him, but with human nature, it was inevitable. We might be so much better off if his warnings about following him as a mere man had been recorded in the traditional Bible, and heeded. Unfortunately,many of his major teachings, including this one, were lost.

The book, The Mystic Gospels of Jesus the Christ has many of his recovered teachings stored in the collective Unconscious. Please take a look at it on the website, and, if you want a copy, just say the word!:)

So, now, every opportunity is jumped at to expound on the dangers of cult-psychology. We have started a group called U.L.T.R.A. Have you seen, or do you receive via email, our Newsletter? (If you want to, just say the word.) You can read all the back-issues on the website. That is loveministries.org

Anyway, in a nutshell, we emphasize that we are NOT a church, organization, or cult. Instead, the Universal Love Teaching and Research Association is a network of fully independent people who join forces to create and implement a vision of a better world. Some of us are Buddhists, some Baptists, and some agnostics. All are equal, and all welcome! As a network, we have no formal leaders or titled hierarchy; each does what her gifts and talents call her to do. We share ideas, concepts, and teachings, but embrace no "dogma" as "infallible." As a group, we embrace no official teachings. I've been called to be a teacher, but that does not put me in a "better" position, just a different one.

The organization is the dead way of the past, while the network is the living Way of the future. Our new efamily is just an extension of the network-family. So is our Pneumariumfamily, which has a gathering once every two weeks.