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Originally Posted by aron
Nee had read Fenelon and Guyon and now was the ascended master. . .
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Nothing wrong with Fenelon and Guyon, or Penn-Lewis. Also nothing wrong with Eastern culture per se. Not inferior to my Western culture. And if Nee and Lee were frightened little men, hiding behind bravado and clouds of words, maybe I moreso.
But what happened with Nee and Lee is that they insisted that they had no culture; and we were convinced they had no self, no ego. Their "someone here has to be God's Anointed Seer" was an unquestioned and culturally-ingrained statement which they took as truth, and they convinced us it was so, and created an institution. Thus self-delusion became collectivized, institutionalized. Which is arguably much worse than our own personal foibles, however tough they may be to struggle through on a daily basis.
We thought we could be free of self by taking Nee as our person, the Ascended Master who supposedly had no self. Dead end.
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Originally Posted by OBW
"we" were impressed that this was some complicated concept that was really hard to get right and Lee was the one who knew it and we didn't. . .
it was always a little unsettling. And yet evidently not unsettling enough. It took almost 10 more years to decide to leave.
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It took what it took. There's an old Russian proverb that says, "No matter how far down the wrong road you've gone, turn back." How far someone went is how far they went. Turn back. (And it somewhat reminds of the prophet telling the seven Asian churches, "Repent". Same words they'd heard on day one.)