This reading was the most interesting thing I read all summer. The story seems like a fiction, yet it’s supposedly a real story. This was one of the few articles I read for this class that easily kept my attention the whole way through. Before I analyze my thinking on the story, I would like to comment that this one chapter in Dr. Lane’s life was more exciting than everything I have imagined for my own life. It was truly like reading one of those fiction novels I can’t keep my hands off.
About the article, it was really exhilarating keeping up with Dr. Lane’s obsession. I’m not too sure if that’s how critical thinking was intended to be used, but his drive was unparalleled to anything I have personally experienced. The main focus of this story has already shown me something I had never thought possible, the getting away of plagiarizing religions. The thought of thousands of followers blindly following a fake religion is baffling. However, the pseudo-religion Eckankar was able to do so by copying Radhasoami text.
Many of those who choose to be believers, rather than skeptics, or religion often prove themselves to be narrow-minded and ignorant. However, it is somewhat understandable, because as Dodie Bellamy had explained it, religion can be there for people when they feel that nothing else suffices. Religion is like a guiding light and even though they cannot see anything else besides it, they leave themselves no choice but to follow it.
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Those who in their apparent folly have followed the path of ECKANKAR for years have done so for one simple reason:it has provided a towering pillar of truth in their lives and given them the tools to explore the inner worlds all by theemselves.
Hello William, the story seems like a fiction because it is one, read Doug Marmans work on Eckankar and David Lane and you'll see what I mean.
Rahdhasoami was just one of the many teachings Paul Twitchell ( founder of Eckankar )was interested in, he was a real researcher and a prolific writer, who found and used what worked in religions and other teachings and put it all to-gether with divine inspiration.
When and if you find out more about Paul Twitchell from the people who were a lot closer to him than David Lane ever was, you will start to realise he is not the man David Lane is portraying in his ameuritish and narrow-minded way. I think you may start to wonder that the people who only hear one side of a story and take it in hook, line, and sinker are the blind followers, gullible, ignorant, and narrow minded. Cheers Willow.
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