It is a peculiar fact that every cult is a trap. If anyone I know gives evidence of membership; I instinctively recoil, spiritually and intellectually, because I feel they have just sold themselves into slavery in a sense, and they are celebrating.

And this is often actually the case. Or so it seems to me. Nearly always, in fact. Especially with those people who believe their chosen cult is so radical or rebellious that it escapes this trap.

The culture is the monster, and it generates its own puppeted rebellions, each co-opted from the get go, as its subcultures. Thus, its revolutions are stillborn representations.

And this is worse in the ‘spiritual’ domain.

But there is a caveat: the soul, in its naive grace… if it is indeed engaged and aware of the process in which it has become involved, can transform almost any vehicle into its vessel of instruction and development… and if the seeker is sincere, they will abandon a path whose cages they have surpassed.

Furthermore, even I began with toys, and all I know I still consider to be ‘learning objects with which I play’ rather than facts or truth… so we all start to learn, perhaps, by playing with representations… of course the danger with spiritual representations is how easily they replace the world and our intelligence without us being aware of this.

As long as the mind of the person is curious enough to continually question and surpass both themselves and their chosen cultures… they will progress.

Thus… if they are seeking, they shall find.

But if they have found?

They shall most probably be lost.