Unpacking Charisma - The Allure of Cult Mentality #higherconsciousness #spiritualitypodcast

But by the end of the conversation, I was like, "Wow, charismatic leader like a transcendent mission which justifies all goals, all means." Um Yeah. Yeah. Whatever you have to do. There's an obviously an underlying ideology. It has its own terminology. It has kind of a again a group think and a group speak. And I was like, "Okay." And you know, again, it's like conversations with people that you know. It's not like you know, people that you don't know. And you're like, "Wow." Okay. So anyways, that was my experience with this. I don't know how this was for you, Daniel, and yeah of things, but have you had these kind of conversations with people? I mean, I was kind of stunned because I just wasn't familiar with this thing. Yeah, definitely. Definitely. I mean, in different ways, right, around different things, but ultimately it's the same the the the structure of the of the cult mentality, right, which is the ends justify the means regard almost regardless what the means are. um the sort of messianic quality of the leader with the charisma such that they are able to um motivate people that would might not normally be motivated in this particular kind of way. You know, they turn on a fire in somebody that they wouldn't normally have. So they almost they're almost infusing them with their own purpose. They're merging themselves with that person and saying, "Oh, now their ideas, their ideals are mine." Right? And so there's a void I believe that's being filled if you want to look at it that way. I mean like you do feel that way, right? There must be some psychological space that's being filled by this. Yeah. When you get to the psychology of it and we'll try as best we can when we get there after we do our intro stuff through this episode. But yeah. And then simultaneously when you are able to take on mindset you'll find others who have the same mindset and that then makes you feel included that uh as you know our boy Marcel would say you are not uniquely cursed. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. You brought that phrase up. Yeah. Right. And and so your misery or this you know transcendence from your misery is shared by others and therefore they are now your you can say that you might recognize them as your king because when we when society's lines have been crossed in the way that they have and that there is not particularly a monoculture which we will I'm going to dunk on this in later.