Yes, kBOY and Lamp,
I think you are both onto something. There is an innate drive to be part of something that fits into our definition of spirituality. Something we hope will transport us out of our daily grind that we believe too ho-hum to be anything truly important. There has to be something greater, something far out of the realm of our understanding, but that tickles our sense of the ethereal so that we can feel as if we've been swept up in a higher purpose. And the beauty of it is that we don't have to do anything except to follow; To place the responsibility for our happiness at the feet of another.
I think that is partly the reason that "Walk" alumni sometimes tend to seek out and become part of neo-cults. We've been ruined for the mainstream, but still have a need for ritual.
Craziest part is the TLW these days is the polar opposite of what they used to be. Aligning with the Catholic church, as they are, would have been considered a great heresy back in the day.
I think that there is simply a hard-wired drive to seek out something greater than ourselves that compels people to continue searching for something new. Eventually, the path probably points inward.
I think you are both onto something. There is an innate drive to be part of something that fits into our definition of spirituality. Something we hope will transport us out of our daily grind that we believe too ho-hum to be anything truly important. There has to be something greater, something far out of the realm of our understanding, but that tickles our sense of the ethereal so that we can feel as if we've been swept up in a higher purpose. And the beauty of it is that we don't have to do anything except to follow; To place the responsibility for our happiness at the feet of another.
I think that is partly the reason that "Walk" alumni sometimes tend to seek out and become part of neo-cults. We've been ruined for the mainstream, but still have a need for ritual.
Craziest part is the TLW these days is the polar opposite of what they used to be. Aligning with the Catholic church, as they are, would have been considered a great heresy back in the day.
I think that there is simply a hard-wired drive to seek out something greater than ourselves that compels people to continue searching for something new. Eventually, the path probably points inward.