[aron]

It reminds me to the idea of unity, or in LSM parlance "oneness". Surely this is prescribed in the scripture. But in actuality it becomes a vehicle for abject servility. We have to be "one" with so and so, they say. We have to be one with God's latest move, with God's current speaking, with the "brothers", with the "Body", etc.

In such exclusive groups, words and phrases take on two meanings, the exoteric or open meaning, arguably derived at least tangenitally from scripture, and then the esoteric, hidden, meaning, which everybody who is "in" tacitly understands. Sooner or later you will "get it", or you will be "out".