Alada
The Living Force
ge0m0 said:While there are numerous and proven methods for individuals to advance spiritually, and the concept of satsang, or community, is available on those paths, it does seem unique that FOTCM is pursuing a novel path. Work of any kind by committee is difficult and often the result is compromise rather than advancement. With the sensitivity of spiritual endeavor and subjective interpretation, I imagine it can get dicey.
Well, it depends what folk are looking for, where their aim is fixed. Some people like the idea of certain things which in reality lay far beyond us as we are, some ideas have those nice sounding words that go with them too after all. Others get fixated on mystical, magical thinking, forgetting the basics - but when do I get my super-powers?! See how many offshoots of Gurdjieff's and Ouspenskys schools (and the rest) have lost their line of force, their direction, have faded away into virtually nothing, or worse have become only caricatures of schools. No good getting all misty eyed about it and in the process forget the basics, nothing will change.
To get back to the basics is no easy thing though, but a sincere group who dispense with preconceived notions of what the Way is, can achieve a great deal between them. Can network and share knowledge in ways which were never possible before, can learn to distinguish and See the truth between them, as a group. What one learns to see, all can learn through a shared process. It is the a, b, c, necessary for other lessons, but of course many do not see it, or fail to see the apllication. Dicey business indeed. ;)