For all the families that are worried about loved ones, for people trying to recover, for those wondering about becoming involved and for those that are harboring doubts I offer the following reflections as a part of a series on Universal Medicine and Serge Benhayon.
First, run. Second, run faster. Third, keep running!
When you're in a safe contemplative place ask yourself this question. What is a cult? A shorthand definition of a cult is that the 500 enchanted students endlessly and highly emotively cry out to anybody that will listen that UM is not a cult. While another 50 million people on the planet go, "mate, you're in a cult!".
Another way of defining a cult is that the spiritual, social and personal identity of 'students' or 'members' becomes solely and exclusively defined in terms of their group membership, which becomes conditional on following the prescriptions and proscriptions of a single person who asserts some kind of higher enlightened status, in this case Serge Benhayon, who makes significant financial gains from their existential dependency.
It is in this way that individuals are 'lost' inside and to the cult irregardless of whether the walls that separate that person from the rest of the world are literal or psychological as is the case with UM. This distinguishes a cult.
By contrast, when someone goes to a church, the religious leader doesn't spend their time denigrating the friends and families of that person as being loveless and evil - that your friends and family hold you back from being who you 'truly' are. Nor does the religious leader proclaim, or make inferable, that they have all the answers to the universe, are smarter than anyone else, higher than anyone else, be the greatest lover in the world, know more than any scientist or to be on the same level as Jesus Christ. When individuals go to university to study, the university doesn't alienate, or have an investment in alienating, the student's families and friends. When one person in a family goes to Jenny Craig, that organisation doesn't fill their heads with the idea that the rest of the family eating other food is pranic and evil. Or that if you follow Jenny Craig you're on a higher and better path than everyone else or that even going near McDonalds will fill you with evil Big Mac energy that will later engorge your family in their sleep.
Or when somebody wants to leave the cricket club, it doesn't take years of psychological treatment and deprogramming. And, importantly, the cricket members don't abuse, attack or shun you because you've left the club.
By definition Universal Medicine is unarguably a cult.
And why is it important to identify Universal Medicine as a cult. I'll leave that to next time.
First, run. Second, run faster. Third, keep running!
When you're in a safe contemplative place ask yourself this question. What is a cult? A shorthand definition of a cult is that the 500 enchanted students endlessly and highly emotively cry out to anybody that will listen that UM is not a cult. While another 50 million people on the planet go, "mate, you're in a cult!".
Another way of defining a cult is that the spiritual, social and personal identity of 'students' or 'members' becomes solely and exclusively defined in terms of their group membership, which becomes conditional on following the prescriptions and proscriptions of a single person who asserts some kind of higher enlightened status, in this case Serge Benhayon, who makes significant financial gains from their existential dependency.
It is in this way that individuals are 'lost' inside and to the cult irregardless of whether the walls that separate that person from the rest of the world are literal or psychological as is the case with UM. This distinguishes a cult.
By contrast, when someone goes to a church, the religious leader doesn't spend their time denigrating the friends and families of that person as being loveless and evil - that your friends and family hold you back from being who you 'truly' are. Nor does the religious leader proclaim, or make inferable, that they have all the answers to the universe, are smarter than anyone else, higher than anyone else, be the greatest lover in the world, know more than any scientist or to be on the same level as Jesus Christ. When individuals go to university to study, the university doesn't alienate, or have an investment in alienating, the student's families and friends. When one person in a family goes to Jenny Craig, that organisation doesn't fill their heads with the idea that the rest of the family eating other food is pranic and evil. Or that if you follow Jenny Craig you're on a higher and better path than everyone else or that even going near McDonalds will fill you with evil Big Mac energy that will later engorge your family in their sleep.
Or when somebody wants to leave the cricket club, it doesn't take years of psychological treatment and deprogramming. And, importantly, the cricket members don't abuse, attack or shun you because you've left the club.
By definition Universal Medicine is unarguably a cult.
And why is it important to identify Universal Medicine as a cult. I'll leave that to next time.