Serving Love in Opposing Cults

It is always a precious event when you can take the hand of a true friend. It is even better when you can offer genuine healing of heart, mind, or Soul.

We all find our spiritual truths and strengths at different times in our life-cycles, based largely on exactly how much our Souls need to learn from the most valuable (but agonizing) "school" of the cult. People such as you and I, who were "true believers" through our early twenties, had to stay locked in their chains because we had to learn more about the pain of cultic prisons. Why did we have to take a more difficult course than others, liberated in their early twenties? We might not consciously know, but we can rest assured that there was a reason, that it did create a special kind of wisdom, and that this unique wisdom will be used by our Souls-- probably in helping others.

Your course was just different from theirs, as was mine. We did not stay in the cult longer because we were stupid, but because we needed to learn more, or differently, from the "class" or "course" of cult-myopia.

Besides, you, like the rest of us, were terrorized with the message of ignorance and brainwashing-- that anyone "outside the truth" was "apostate" at least, and "demonized" at worst. You were only a kid. Most people do not begin much actual strong spiritual growth until they gave got their twenties (and often some of their thirties) out of their systems. According to nature's plan, we are still "playing" or "goofing off" until life makes us, forces us, to be serious about spirituality. Just thank Love that you are now free-- it is worth every minute, even if we have to wait ten thousand years to find freedom!:)

What the psychic told you, i.e., that your Soul came here to have its experiences, so that it could learn to help others, is true of everyone.

It is highly objectionable, and arrogant, for any religious faith to claim to have the "whole and only truth," exclusive of all other faiths. How stupidly closed-minded is that? And the claim that the "saved," or "the elect" will alone "survive Armageddon" is taught by every group of fundamentalists in the world.

I agree with the guy who would not want to live on an infinite golf-course, especially if it were an absurd presbytocracy (rule by elders). What a nightmare that would be! As for the guy who wanted to sing the songs of the cult, his programming went into his heartmind much too deeply. He certainly needs all the healing and "normalization" that he can get! That poor dude needs help!

You went to the gathering with a most noble motive: To serve, and to give aid to, those in need of deprogramming. But as so often happens to us all, your disappointment was created by your expectation. We all need to live with as few serious expectations as is reasonable or possible.

Keep up the noble, excellent, healing work, both within yourself and with others. That is the work of Love, of compassion, to which we are all and always called! This is what Lovemind wants.