To all Awakening Wanderers/Seekers.

[Sacred Fool]

This community tends to be a bit slow-going and scatter-minded, I have found, but is great as a place where inspiration can flow quite freely. It appears to have been under fire, psychically, from time to time over the past years.

(Really?  Do you have any proof of this?  I'm wondering how I missed it?) 



That brings to mind some questions of what's going on at the site. It originally, before my time here, was much more focused around the topic of Ra-related things and the accompanying philosophy. In several steps, the focus became more general, and previously off-topic topics became fine to discuss. 

(This I am aware of.  "Fine to discuss" by dint of sloppy moderating or for deliberate reasons?) 

Much more recently, the moderators decided to be more lenient with views against the core philosophy of the community. That's after the old approach backfired when the member Cyan left. The thread about that event is peaceful, but soon after, some newcomers who believed Ra negative or disagreed with the basic philosophy repeated Cyan's idea that things may be too cult-like here, generally attacking things and letting the moderators "prove" that it's not a cult through non-intervention. That's another of those short emotional storms making a portion of members leave. 

(Again I am curious, do you know this because it was stated or is this merely your own assessment?  )

Personally, I think:
- The moderators earlier went after peaceful expression of dissenting views too much.
- The moderators did too little earlier when emotional storms began to erupt and/or some felt bullied.
- The moderators may be slowly self-sabotaging by not discussing the big picture openly when the direction of the community becomes uncertain.

In other words, I think they focused too much on ideas and too little on emotional dynamics. More moderation of the latter could have avoided some emotional explosions, while too much restriction around ideas created others. 

(My guess was that they burned out from playing the role of policeman and found the job unrewarding, possibly in large part because it had strayed from its intended mission.)