The world operates on the basis of groups or individuals trying to influence others to think, therefore act, in a way that benefits the influencer.
This is acceptable in society as most families work in this way, with the parents influencing their children how to think and act. Governments act in this way by the setting and enforcing of laws. Armies act this way through training.
People join groups of like minded people and the rules of the group seek to influence thought and behaviour.
What then is a cult and how does it differ from the ordinary working of society.
The term cult is usually used in a critical sense aimed to cause fear in others and to have others join them in their belief about a cult.
It is in this context I will address a cult. It is a group which causes others to fear it's power, is seen as acting negatively in society and it removes the free will of its members. All three conditions have to be present for it to be a cult.
Where these conditions are present, there is cause to fear, for society is not being advanced by the existence of the group.
Where people maliciously call a group a cult, knowing it is not, they are acting in a way that is as bad as any cult.
Spirituality in its true and pure sense has at its vanguard of teaching the principle of free will. Hence, any spiritual group teaching free will as a guiding principal is not a cult.
My teaching is through Sphinx Spiritual. It is led through the teaching of free will. Because of this Sphinx Spiritual is not a cult and nor is any other like spiritual group.
From my guide Crazy Horse, through Ian Rogers, Director Sphinx Spiritual.
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