The cult dynamic happens when the energy mutually experienced in the group becomes the dominant referent in the personal lives of those members. At that point, conventional reality recedes into the background, possibly feeling surreal. Not only religions, but families and political groups can manifest as cults in this way.
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Poem: Voices of Madness – I – self
if only you could touch me
you might see me
if only you might see me
you might touch me
Haikus #95-103 Grasping
one breath
after another
existential grasping!
Death Poem #1 plus Life Haiku
Empty-handed I entered the world
Barefoot I leave it.
My coming, my going-
Two simple happenings
That got entangled.
Buddhism 101 #1 The Three Marks of Existence
Suffering, impermanence and egolessness.
Notes from the Secretary: Upcoming new Buddhism 101 series
The Three Marks of Existence coming soon…
Haiku #6 Van Gogh’s Blessings
After pasting in the Cornfields painting for Haiku #5 by once-pastor to impoverished mining community Van Gogh, and who inspired one of the characters in Emile Zola’s famous work ‘Germinal’ and who later died a patient suffering from mental illness induced by a lifetime of outer world hardships and failures, the following haiku arose, imaginingContinue reading “Haiku #6 Van Gogh’s Blessings”
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