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Originally Posted by awareness
Right you are bro Igzy. I was struck by this:
"After you have been brainwashed for a few years, whenever you leave that group, you are spiritually wrecked."
I'll say! That's exactly my experience after leaving the local church. And the experience of everyone I know that has left. Kaung had to know this by his own experience. And who could it have been that brainwashed him??? And what "group" did he leave???
Why is it so important to be "human?" Just consider Dr. Lily Hsu, and it makes all the sense in the world. If we're all just human then there can be no MOTA. We can let Christ be the MOTA.
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I'm afraid that the instances of spiritually wrecked ex-LC members and even current members is all too common. Ultimately, individuals should be able to chose what kind of spiritual lives that they lead, no person or group should be attempting to define that. Unfortunately, it seems like that is exactly what the LC is attempting to do. They are peddling what they might label as a "genuine" spiritual (charismatic) experience. Because they have defined most other spiritual experiences as pretentious, it can lead members into a dead-end, believing that genuine spiritual experiences only happen in the LC. So if you leave, or you can't live up to the standard, it leads to an inevitable path, unless you come to terms with what the LC really is.
What happens when someone becomes disillusioned with the LC? If they feel that only the LC encompasses the positive things that they experienced, then they are destined to not be able to move on to what lies next. Similarity, if someone in the LC becomes discouraged because they feel that they are unable to live up to the standard, they are also destined to not be able to move on. Unless people realize that what happened to them is not their fault, the can easily end up in a situation of being "stuck".
It would not surprise me if there were many ex-members out there who don't even understand what happened to them in the LC. I know there are many "dropouts", but how many have come out of hiding to places such as this forum to critically discuss LC experiences? Not too many. That's not to say anyone has to do that, but it does makes me wonder. How many have moved on? How many are still trying to make sense of it all?