Cult-ure
When two or more people come together to serve a purpose beyond their individual self, an entity is born. Yet a seed, but soon watered through faith, structure and action.
"Oh but we're just dancing and connecting. We're all about free love."
"We want equality for all!"
"We need justice!"
Anytime you say "we want..", "we need.." or "we are all about.." recognize that you're actually talking about yourself, but you're using other people as external justifications to keep certain behaviors and beliefs going, because it feels comfortable and even passionate to move in unison with others.
To truly feel the evolutionary path of humanity, one must individuate.
Unless we can face the group entities that have been allowed to live through us, we can never freely choose our own words or actions.
The spiritual hierarchies of Reality show fractal nature through beings born within beings.
Often these beings are so occult that they're just seen as concepts like "the government", "the middle age", "elitists", "the medical system" or "Aquarius". Or they can be called "the freedom movement", "our tribe" or something like that.
This conceptual view is how the subnatural world sees Reality. This is where Reality seems dead and mechanic, like a machine.
Intellect is important, but it's a small part of perception. Just like natural science is a very small part of true Science.
Consciousness is nuanced through the creation process. From God to higher beings to man to the natural world to the subnatural world. Then we return to God after "one breath of Brahma".
In every group there's a being living through the individuals. As well as in every business, project, event or family. Often there are many fighting for their place in the human, especially if they're dark and individuation hasn't happened.
To individuate, to use Jung's term, is not to disregard spiritual entities, but to choose wisely which beings we merge with while still living a unique creative life.
True conscious beings will never try to make you do anything, they are discovered when free will and love is chosen. They are what has always been here, at the root of it all. Our stepping stones towards God. They gently guide humans if the physical body is attuned to implement it.
To live as physical humans is a gift we developed into. Out path now is to spiritualize out of matter.
This happens through merging with higher conscious beings. They are always here, shaping the entire cosmos. "Humans are the thoughts of higher beings", as Steiner would frame it.
So back to cult-ure. A cult is merely unconscious communion and externalizing our ability to choose our spiritual path onto an authority figure.
Only when we are individuated can we create real society with a true evolutionary impulse running through us. In Esoteric Christianity and Anthroposophy this main impulse/being is called Christ. In my experience, this points to the same way of being as Taoism points to The Tao.
Any sociatal system that does not explicitly and intentionally guide individuation right now will not last anyway.
Is the structure you're in guiding you towards individuation? Or does it have another agenda?
Love to you