09-09-2016, 04:23 PM
(09-09-2016, 12:23 PM)Aion Wrote: While I understand your use of cult leaders as an example I would like to point out that there are also positive approaches to group organizations and not every case of one person with strong ideas is a case of a budding cult. Many of the spiritual masters we enjoy the works of today had many followers. Hell, we don't call the Dalai Lama a cult leader, right?
I know you were just using an example so I just wanted to fill in the other side of things.
Imagine the Buddha cult aha I partly say this as a defense of magic because perhaps unintentionally you have implied that all magic is of the makings of cults. I'm sure you did not mean that but just to clarify.
Yes, there are definitely positive charismatic individuals, and I'm certainly not saying that all magic is about making (negative) cults. There are positive cults, though most people have an aversion to the word "cult". To me, it is a neutral term. I would call all organized religions cults, but like I said, most people would (wrongly) assume I mean something negative by that, when in reality I just mean they involve "a system of religious veneration and devotion directed toward a particular figure or object" or that it constitutes "a relatively small group of people having religious beliefs or practices regarded by others as strange" or possibly "an excessive admiration for a particular person or thing."
But yeah, there are definitely positive individuals who lead people into new and more positive belief systems. In fact, I would say that is what most light workers/wanderers are constantly doing when they get the chance to lead others out of restrictive beliefs into broader ones.