[Another forgotten post from the draft folder from Sep 2010]
This was an insight that Howard Bloom’s Conformity Enforcers and Stephen Pressfield’s concept of The Resistance are linked, or at least serve the same ends.
Post Category → Religion & Spirituality
David Sloan Wilson and Howard Bloom on cults
[Continuing the series where I post the backlog from my drafts folder. This one is from June 2009 ]
David Sloan Wilson & Howard Bloom both argue cults can be good including Scientology.
“A religion that makes Hollywood starts sober up and send thank you notes cannot be all that bad”
See also
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_Bloom
David Sloan Wilson (Darwin’s Cathedral) – http://www.skeptic.com/eskeptic/07-07-04.html
Listening is an act of compassion
Studs Terkel, the oral historian on This American Life and Public Radio Redux, was a lovely person.
I really like this On Being piece, “Life, Faith and Death“.
See also:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Studs_Terkel