Subscribing to the universal beliefs of the group does NOT mean blind belief. It is VITALLY important that you understand that. You're not believing it simply because we tell you to. Ideally, you're becoming a part of the group because, after hearing what we have to say and understanding the Purpose, you've come to believe in those things. See the difference? It's an important one.
And it's an ongoing process; understanding, coming to learn and see things, coming to learn how to see things. You're not going to be manipulated by that belief; you're not going to be for example sent to go out and blow shit up for a reason you don't understand. That was a lot of the problem in Zion, I think, near the end... and God forgive me for saying it. The first rule of the Zero-Six Contingent is NOT you do not ask questions. ASK questions. I'm accessible pretty much 24/7.
There is nothing of a cult about this particular avenue of organization; because for one, in clear terms, you are absolutely free to come in, to leave, to walk the Path for a while and then leave it, to learn about the Path before you walk it, or to quit at any time. People have quit. That choice is entirely yours. Subscribing to this, being a part of this, is not a lifetime commitment that you'll be a traitor or a blasphemer or anything else (as equally ridiculous) if you decide, somewhere along the line, that the Path you need or choose to walk ultimately differs from ours. And you're always free to step aside and still support what we're doing; that is the most flexible aspect of all of this. You're free to do as you choose.
Since they've given me permission to re-quote it and I think we have, a great deal, heh and since it was open on several of the
projects launch-sites, with great, humble gratitude I'm going to post again here something one of our people wrote quite a long while back, addressing this subject. I do so because, more than my writing and assurances, I think that someone else's understanding of this freedom is clear... and makes things clear.
Like I think many of you, I was confused, but also curious, and tried to be open-minded. I found that what Neo was saying made a lot of sense to me. I chose to see what was down the now-legendary rabbit hole....
It wasn't that long after I decided to leave that he first entered into the patch of being offline for however long it had been. I was carrying on perfectly happily with my own life, not being affected by whatever was happening in the group, or whatever was happening. Then, he made a phone-post I don't even recall which one it was XD but as I listened, I realized that somewhere in my brain something had clicked. He was the one. It was now an assumption, rather than the question. He is. I don't know how long I had known, but it just suddenly clicked...
I'm not going to question your actions, because if you do leave, I've done the same thing myself. I know that if you need to say goodbye, it never has to be final. It's not a case of having one chance. If you want to take a break from this all, I know you'll be able to return. Even if you don't plan to come back, if you do change your mind, you won't be turned away. Remember at least that.
Belief in the group and work with the group does NOT interfere with, or change or challenge or threaten or blaspheme any other beliefs, religious or otherwise, that you already hold. We are entirely non-exclusive in that sense. Which is one of the things that make us entirely unique. We're not asking you to convert over what you choose to believe. You don't have to give it up. When I wrote about what I called the Synchronistic Path a year or so ago, I said the same thing. But I'm repeating it now.
All of the so-called loaded words that people in the group have begun to use, and normally rally behind are entirely lower-case. Presuming you understand what I mean. No one worships anyone here. There's difference between belief or faith and worship a big one. No one's building shrines, no one's bowing down to any omnipotent deity. Please, take a deep breath. What it is it is. But it's up to you to integrate that with what you choose to hold close to yourself. Like I wrote in the earlier summary.
Something to reach for that doesn't care who they are, what color their skin is, what God they believe in. Something that doesn't require them to abide by laws of sin, that doesn't require them to exclude anyone else at all. Something that isn't driven by money or hatred, isn't driven by secrecy or superiority, something to reach for that is unique in that their salvation lies only and ultimately in their own hands. It is a reality that they shape themselves. It is a reality in which they can exist, and believe, without fear.
Just imagine a religion that, like a software upgrade, can be installed over a pre-existing system without any data loss a belief system, a system of possibility, that doesn't short-circuit what you already believe. It doesn't need to. It's a Path, defined by you. People fear this possibility they always have. But to make this happen, ultimately and finally, is my Purpose to give this to you. I lead from the things I see from the place I come from. I do it because I can. This is my gift, perhaps, to derail the End. And at the end, to give the power back to you for you to give yourselves back your reality.
No one's asking you to give anything up... but keep in mind that if you're simply giving lip service to the idea of freedom, if you're too afraid to give up anything anything that makes you comfortable, anything familiar and stable, then you're not really a part of the movement. You're simply telling yourself that you're free, while clinging to your own personal status quo. Like the people in Zion, near the end. They continued to tell themselves and each other that they were such free minds, so enlightened for having escaped the Matrix... while they clung to and passed on their subjective, biased history of poor oppressed humans and evil Machines, passed on their blindness and hatred, and weren't free at all. If you're afraid to step outside of the box you've been handed... then why look for something else? Why question it at all?
Whether or not you're co-existing or simply living with your fear... those are things that you have to decide, looking at your own life, one way or another. But the look has to be honest.
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