This is the first correction to this “paper”. I realize that each aspect dealt with here will need to be taken separately and defined in more detail.
It is nevertheless a valuable guide for anyone seriously interested in finding solutions.
Multicellular organisms replace worn-out cells through cell division. In some animals, however, cell division eventually halts. In humans this occurs on average, after 52 divisions, known as the Hayflick limit. The cell is then referred to as senescent. Cells stop dividing because the telomeres, protective bits of DNA on the end of a chromosome required for replication, shorten with each copy, eventually being consumed, as described in the article on telomere shortening. Cancer cells, on the other hand, are not thought to degrade in this way, if at all. An enzyme called telomerase, present in large quantities in cancerous cells, rebuilds the telomeres, allowing division to continue indefinitely.
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Elena:
One of the most complex phenomenon that needs to be understood about cults is the fact that people give up their will to the guru, violently depressing their I but still continue to live in apparent “high spirits” or at least enough of them to continue making money for the cult or working in it to support it.
What is significant about the 23 suicides in the telecom company of France is that in regular society people, when depressed enough, will commit suicide or homicide while in cults, no matter how much they depress their I by withdrawing their will and doing only what the guru demands, they will continue to live… like automatons. (That is why for any authority visiting the complex, like California’s congressman, Leo Ryan when he visited Jonestown, cannot easily identify the deep problem: because one, people look “normal” from the outside, two, fairly coherent with their entourage and three, have a strong support for the guru. How could they be legally stopped without understanding and being able to support that understanding with real factual claims? It should not be too difficult to set up a series of tests that authorities could do on cult members to assess how badly they’ve given up their will to the guru and are acting against their own self and THAT should be enough for any authority to close a cult down. (We must work on this later, cancer is the purpose of this post))
Deciphering why, who and how people continue to support the cult although they are clearly acting against their own well being is the real issue in understanding how it is a cancerigenous process. WHO are the main supporters of the guru should give us the real clue. The “inner circle” in the cult who continue to have some “freedom of action” from their own self supported by the guru play a similar role as that of the telomerase. They are the ones in charge of setting the guru’s will into action and setting the conditions that will induce other members into giving up their will. They are the “middle-class” of the cult. Because within the cult, the psychological and physical space of the members is so reduced, it is not difficult to impose concrete limits to behavior and no one can escape. They can leave and in some cults they actually have to “escape” but they cannot be in the cult and disagree. They HAVE to adapt. To be able to adapt, they have to give up their will. To be able to give up their will, they have to depress and control, their I. After years of doing this, ignoring who they ever were, their families, their childhood, their interests, their nationality, their friends, their wive or husband, their children and themselves, and replacing all that for the guru’s divine being and will, the endless hours of volunteer work to make the guru’s home dignified enough for his presence, cooking his meals and those of his sex mates, making money for his trips, keeping other members busy so that they think “life” was never as “high” as now and show off their power to other members while stick their tails between their legs before the guru, takes ALL their energy and the hasnamous or second personality that has taken over their lives, thrives like cancer in the lungs of the individual.
What can be observed here is that the individual has not had to “invent” or make up another completely new setting for his own life, he and she have simply complied to the setting that they’ve willingly placed their selves in and very gently being replaced by a personality within their own self that systematically acts against them. We can very well think of this process in terms of “possession” but what is a cancer if not a “possession” that has turned against the individual?
The next step we’d need to take is understanding how exactly people act against their own self and inevitably against the well being of humanity for whatever has the capacity to weaken and destroy an individual without his realizing it, has the capacity to destroy hundreds of thousands of individuals. 914 in one simple blow in Jonestown to begin with.
For a systematic study of this process, I believe we should make use of the fourfold understanding of life as the sphere of the individual, the sphere of his immediate social connectedness, third, the sphere of the “nation” and finally the sphere of the whole or the “Community” of Mankind: their “humaneness”.
In the sphere of the individual, in cults, the individuals themselves are systematically deconstructing their inner self by obeying to the lifestyle imposed by the guru. This “lifestyle” conditions each and every one of their centers: what they eat, how they move, what they are supposed to feel and what they are to think. Instinctive, moving, emotional and intellectual spheres are all methodically retrained to act in specific ways that are ALL acting against the members free will. That lack of freedom is what in the long run suffocates the individual’s I and death is not only the coherent next step, it is the final liberation that is desperately longed for just like an individual with severe cancer will look for death as liberation.
In the sphere of the social, cult members are trained to abandon emotional connection with family members and to relate to other members only in relation to their participation and role within the cult. “Friendships” die within cults if the members are truly devoted to the status quo. Some think associating between each other for hierarchic reasons is friendship but it is just another way of keeping the status quo and submitting others. The freedom of communication between human beings does not exist in cults and people are used to reference each other’s willingness to give their self up for the guru. The need, the legitimate human nature of love, communication and connectedness without an agenda, is replaced by the blind and unquestioned commitment to the guru and members act like automatons in relation to each other. Personal life’s needs and pains and joys and sorrows are relegated to the back, back, back room and no one is supposed to be so weak that they are identified with greeting each other like human beings. Even “greeting” is conditioned. Members are now in the path for qualifying for “supra human beings” whose feeling and thinking life is radically disconnected from their “personal” self. Everything personal is disqualified and even their name is often changed. They are to die to themselves if they want to awaken!.
That is the theory but what is really happening is that they are self annihilating to serve the guru and like a cancer spread out a form of life fit for bees.
In the third sphere, that of the nation, the cult itself replaces the nation. All those emotions natural to individuals in relation to their nation are replaced unconsciously by the cults destiny and the members behave towards the cult with the same zealous intimacy that they usually unconsciously relate to their nation.
What needs to be understood and verified is that these emotions, this emotional life of individuals is REAL, has specific boundaries, plays concrete roles, takes up definite actions in our lives and are NEVER separate from each other.
In the fourth sphere, that of humanity, the dialogue between the human and humanity takes place. The “ideal” of such a relation is lived out and conditions all the others in specific ways. The state of such relationship and how it is conceived is unconsciously or consciously used by individuals to justify their behavior in the other spheres. It acts like “little cricket” when people still have such conscience and when “killed” off as they must in the cult, the logical mind takes over to justify each and every action. That is the task of those who, within the cult, have to justify the multiple aberrations.
It is this fourth sphere that is wiped out in cults. The guru goes as far as replacing the “nation” because in it he can still move the members to act on his behalf but he must wipe out the human sphere of equality to sustain the hierarchy of his kingdom. It is the hierarchy of the kingdom that kills the individual’s free will if they are to participate in it. Every single human being is longing for the connectedness with the “cosmic human” and that connectedness is realized in each and every one of the previous spheres. In giving all of them up, the member is left only with his inflated connection to the supra human guru.
In the personal sphere, an understanding of the human being or the human ideal in the “Universal human” with each and every one of its inherent RIGHTS, reflects on the individual’s sense of his own self and empowers him to be, to play his role within whatever community he or she is participating. A “healthy” development within the family and society allows individuals to live “themselves” out. Un unhealthy development does not give an individual enough empowerment to play any other role but that of victim. The individual psychologically “shrinks”. It’s interesting that even people who are externally apparently active and successful are actually “shrinking” in private and compensate with forms of addiction as in alchohol or drugs.
That “empowerment” or what is left of the “healthy” individual is what must be wiped out from each member of the cult so that the guru can use and abuse everyone and everything and the inner circle members can use and abuse the outer circle members and the outer circle members can use and abuse the non-members, even just by thinking that they are “better” because they are not part of the “six billion dead”. THAT is how the cancer plays itself out. Invisible currents of energy are passing through each layer of connectedness and what was once the innocent love of individuals looking for a community to live a decent life has gradually turned into a life sucking hell from which only a few are able to escape.
It’s important to start pinpointing exactly what I understand by the fourth sphere or the purely human sphere that connects and determines all of them. They are of course all interconnected but the fourth which we could name the fourth or the first is like water for fish. When it is healthy, communities and individuals develop normally, when it is unhealthy, different forms of crime become abundant.
One of the characteristics of this sphere that I am trying to point out is that of civil rights. The Declaration of Human rights comprises the same rights but amplifies them.
Article 1
All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood.
Article 2
Everyone is entitled to all the rights and freedoms set forth in this Declaration, without distinction of any kind, such as race, colour, sex, language, religion, political or other opinion, national or social origin, property, birth or other status. Furthermore, no distinction shall be made on the basis of the political, jurisdictional or international status of the country or territory to which a person belongs, whether it be independent, trust, non-self-governing or under any other limitation of sovereignty.
Article 3
Everyone has the right to life, liberty and security of person.
Article 4
No one shall be held in slavery or servitude; slavery and the slave trade shall be prohibited in all their forms.
Article 5
No one shall be subjected to torture or to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment.
Article 6
Everyone has the right to recognition everywhere as a person before the law.
Article 7
All are equal before the law and are entitled without any discrimination to equal protection of the law. All are entitled to equal protection against any discrimination in violation of this Declaration and against any incitement to such discrimination.
Article 8
Everyone has the right to an effective remedy by the competent national tribunals for acts violating the fundamental rights granted him by the constitution or by law.
Article 9
No one shall be subjected to arbitrary arrest, detention or exile.
Article 10
Everyone is entitled in full equality to a fair and public hearing by an independent and impartial tribunal, in the determination of his rights and obligations and of any criminal charge against him.
Article 11
Everyone charged with a penal offence has the right to be presumed innocent until proved guilty according to law in a public trial at which he has had all the guarantees necessary for his defence.
No one shall be held guilty of any penal offence on account of any act or omission which did not constitute a penal offence, under national or international law, at the time when it was committed. Nor shall a heavier penalty be imposed than the one that was applicable at the time the penal offence was committed.
Article 12
No one shall be subjected to arbitrary interference with his privacy, family, home or correspondence, nor to attacks upon his honour and reputation. Everyone has the right to the protection of the law against such interference or attacks.
Article 13
Everyone has the right to freedom of movement and residence within the borders of each state.
Everyone has the right to leave any country, including their own, and to return to their country.
Article 14
Everyone has the right to seek and to enjoy in other countries asylum from persecution.
This right may not be invoked in the case of prosecutions genuinely arising from non-political crimes or from acts contrary to the purposes and principles of the United Nations.
Article 15
Everyone has the right to a nationality.
No one shall be arbitrarily deprived of his nationality nor denied the right to change his nationality.
Article 16
Men and women of full age, without any limitation due to race, nationality or religion, have the right to marry and to found a family. They are entitled to equal rights as to marriage, during marriage and at its dissolution.
Marriage shall be entered into only with the free and full consent of the intending spouses.
The family is the natural and fundamental group unit of society and is entitled to protection by society and the State.
Article 17
Everyone has the right to own property alone as well as in association with others.
No one shall be arbitrarily deprived of his property.
Article 18
Everyone has the right to freedom of thought, conscience and religion; this right includes freedom to change his religion or belief, and freedom, either alone or in community with others and in public or private, to manifest his religion or belief in teaching, practice, worship and observance.
Article 19
Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers.
Article 20
Everyone has the right to freedom of peaceful assembly and association.
No one may be compelled to belong to an association.
Article 21
Everyone has the right to take part in the government of their country, directly or through freely chosen representatives.
Everyone has the right of equal access to public service in their country.
The will of the people shall be the basis of the authority of government; this will shall be expressed in periodic and genuine elections which shall be by universal and equal suffrage and shall be held by secret vote or by equivalent free voting procedures.
Article 22
Everyone, as a member of society, has the right to social security and is entitled to realization, through national effort and international co-operation and in accordance with the organization and resources of each State, of the economic, social and cultural rights indispensable for his dignity and the free development of his personality.
Article 23
Everyone has the right to work, to free choice of employment, to just and favourable conditions of work and to protection against unemployment.
Everyone, without any discrimination, has the right to equal pay for equal work.
Everyone who works has the right to just and favourable remuneration ensuring for himself and his family an existence worthy of human dignity, and supplemented, if necessary, by other means of social protection.
Everyone has the right to form and to join trade unions for the protection of his interests.
Article 24
Everyone has the right to rest and leisure, including reasonable limitation of working hours and periodic holidays with pay.
Article 25
Everyone has the right to a standard of living adequate for the health and well-being of himself and of his family, including food, clothing, housing and medical care and necessary social services, and the right to security in the event of unemployment, sickness, disability, widowhood, old age or other lack of livelihood in circumstances beyond his control.
Motherhood and childhood are entitled to special care and assistance. All children, whether born in or out of wedlock, shall enjoy the same social protection.
Article 26
Everyone has the right to education. Education shall be free, at least in the elementary and fundamental stages. Elementary education shall be compulsory. Technical and professional education shall be made generally available and higher education shall be equally accessible to all on the basis of merit.
Education shall be directed to the full development of the human personality and to the strengthening of respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms. It shall promote understanding, tolerance and friendship among all nations, racial or religious groups, and shall further the activities of the United Nations for the maintenance of peace.
Parents have a prior right to choose the kind of education that shall be given to their children.
Article 27
Everyone has the right freely to participate in the cultural life of the community, to enjoy the arts and to share in scientific advancement and its benefits.
Everyone has the right to the protection of the moral and material interests resulting from any scientific, literary or artistic production of which he is the author.
Article 28
Everyone is entitled to a social and international order in which the rights and freedoms set forth in this Declaration can be fully realized.
Article 29
Everyone has duties to the community in which alone the free and full development of his personality is possible.
In the exercise of his rights and freedoms, everyone shall be subject only to such limitations as are determined by law solely for the purpose of securing due recognition and respect for the rights and freedoms of others and of meeting the just requirements of morality, public order and the general welfare in a democratic society.
These rights and freedoms may in no case be exercised contrary to the purposes and principles of the United Nations.
Article 30
Nothing in this Declaration may be interpreted as implying for any State, group or person any right to engage in any activity or to perform any act aimed at the destruction of any of the rights and freedoms set forth herein.
There are various aspects of this declaration worth pointing out to understand why I state that it is an aspect of the fourth sphere. I feel the need to look at this in detail because most people take such declarations for granted and people seem to set out in life convinced that those ideals are real to discover only too soon that we live in a world far from such beauties. The next step worth understanding is that people seem to be in the pursuit of making up some new and powerful interpretation of life, a new shoe that we could all fit in and I wonder why we would need to make up anything new when we are still far from realizing what we’ve understood has been necessary for centuries? Civil rights are not a new idea and instead of the world adjusting to a more “civil life” it seems to be moving away from such civil rights only for the benefit of inhuman relationships.
What is so interesting about the cult experience is that all those processes are lived out in miniature form and for those observing or sensitive enough to see what is before them, the effects of being deprived from such rights, the effects on people’s lives and sense of their own self, becomes obvious. In regular societies it is more difficult to pinpoint those effects because the problems are diffused in such a huge number of people and everyone is so immersed in their own little sphere, that it is difficult to point out the relationships.
When we look at the cult in detail, it is possible to observe that it is precisely this fourth sphere what is wiped out of the member’s life and in wiping it out, not only the social relationships between the members acquire a clearly inhuman expression but the individuals themselves gradually lose complete sense of their own humanity.
The “human” is what the guru must wipe out of the cult to be able to reign sovereign. And he does it by “olympically” jumping from the infra-human condition that he establishes for the sleeping flock who must refrain from every free action and allow for every single imposition to his supra-human condition that belonging to him who is “awake”, can expand each and every one of his whims. While the guru expands, the members contract and end up at the service of each and every one of the guru’s fantasies.
The individual member is raped of his human integrity and rights, the community of members are raped of the free flow of rights that guarantee the development of a community and the guru sets himself up as the sole owner of ALL the rights under the premise that he is awake while everyone else is sleep.
The way these things occur is very concrete. They are not nearly as abstract as cults would like it for us not to be able to observe them clearly. Any cult that is practicing the lack of freedom of speech within its institutionalized boundaries is breaking the law. Any cult that is practicing the disconnectedness of the individuals from the decisions on what is done with the money they provide is breaking the law and disempowering its members. Each and everyone of these freedoms is violated in cults and as such, act against the members as individuals as much as social members of a nation and human members of humanity. Any nation should act against these cults in the protection of its individuals and every human being should act against them in the protection against human slavery.
We are at a critical point in history. It is no longer the slavery of blacks or other nationals that haunts our lives, it is the possibility of being enslaved by our own longing for more human communities without understanding our rights.
Cults are extreme expressions of what is already happening in regular society with governments that are disappearing behind the curtain while those in economic power use and abuse the laws at their will. That is why it’s mandatory for us to stop that train and pull out its very tracks.
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