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Originally Posted by awareness

Witness Lee stood against critical thinking, methinks, because subliminal forces worked better.

But looking back, because a Full-Duplex transmission was going on -- it is confusing to put it together -- the problem could have been me, or Lee. Or both.

I wasn't seeking critical thinking back then. I was seeking God and His eternal purpose. And I thought I could get there by jumping into the subliminal waters that pervaded the milieu in the local church.

Praying was a subliminal activity, especially group prayer. Pray-reading was subliminal, especially group pray-reading. Pray-reading was chock-full of subliminal messaging. Calling on the Lord was subliminal activity, especially group calling. Meetings were full of subliminal messaging.

And I dove right in. Thinking it, diving into the subliminal waters, were working me into God and His purpose.

What a delusion! And yes, I thought my way out of it.

That's why I'm a critical thinker today. It's a defense mechanism against falling for anything like the local church.

I think sub-rational would be a better term for most of Lee's indoctrination techniques. I mean I haven't seen any evidence that he was injecting his ideas in backwards English on the music tapes LSM was putting out. Subliminal means the information is disseminated by sensory stimuli below an individual's threshold for conscious perception. The techniques Lee used were things like promoting chanting to suspend the use of logical thought processes that might detect the fallacies in his propositions and denigrating anyone who would not conform. That's not subliminal. You're misusing the term.