"If one imagines that others have discovered a true nature that myself has not yet been able to "realize", a painful tension - a dilemma- arises between the degrading story I tell myself on the one hand: 'I'm just a frightened, ennui-stricken, lump of flesh' and the fanciful story of enlightenment, self-realization, and deathlessness on the other.
'I am pure co
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"Cults," Sects, and "New Religious Movements"