AscensionAddiction wrote:You are only trapped until you realise you are not trapped. The cage door is unlocked. And are we not all, at least in some degree, deluded still?
Oh, don't most people in the world think that everyone else is deluded ... except for them!?!
What interests me is how we can be trapped despite not really believing. The beliefs are not the part which traps us, except to the degree they consume our mind and stop it from thinking about other stuff (I have the image of the monkey with his fist caught in the trap).
So what is it that traps us?
The relationships or connectivity to the social fabric of the BK community are one part. We are disconnected from all others and then reconnected to them. That probably pulls on all sorts of subtle strings we don't realise. Addiction to the meditatiary experiences, especially during the Honeymoon Period, is another. They are quite a high ... but generally wear off sooner rather than later.
I think it is something more than just these but I cannot put my finger on it. I am sure many, many people wonder how and why they got caught. One of the things ex-cult therapists often says is that cult members are often of a slightly higher than average intelligence ... suggesting that this is part of how they were able to be trapped. I am not sure how.
I don't know you but I am thinking of people like Neville, Brian, even Sarah ... individuals far more competent, intelligent and driven than I am ... and wonder how they ever got sucked in and stuck? Perhaps there was something else very simple missing from their life ... like the simple community spirit and bond found within Asian/Indian communities? Or may be they were bewitched and possessed ...
Of course, they all could just say, "it's the truth" but we know it's not.