Group Showers

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Experiencing gnosis does not always augur a fortunate outcome. It depends most times on how well it's handled. For the event of gnosis to come out well there usually must need be a mentor of some definite skill level who can teach the newborn of the second birth how to live a life of no blame.

There are those who experience gnosis, and then, there are those that follow them who haven't/didn't experienced but who find life easier if they stay close enow to the enlightened One's... hmm... light. In my biased opinion, it's always the organization of followers who haven't experienced gnosis that eventually conjures the fate of their leader who has. They either successful at forming a breakaway tribe or die trying.

Gnosis is a term associated with the early Christians. The term is similar to the Asian term "enlightenment" or the western term "Individuation". The people who organized around a gnostic in the areas around the Mediterranean Sea might have done so in a manner similar to the way the regular tribal members relate to a shaman or medicine man is in the American Indian tribes.

The Druids of northern Europe were organized in pretty much the same way. Although, those ways are not well known. There's only a smattering of written records usually by third parties. What I've read indicates the priest class didn't always live with the tribal members, but moved from group to group administering activities like legal matters and healing, and indoctrinating children at certain ages. 

The person who experiences gnosis is not necessarily a leader, but more like specialists who devoted their lives to tribal affairs. They're depicted as living out on the periphery of the tribe, and didn't take a direct part in tribal affairs. 

The meaning of the written gospels in relation to followers may be like what was written in the National Geographic about the Gospel of Judas. The written stuff was the remnants of what the person who had experienced gnosis had written themselves or had been related to scribes by professional memorizers. 

Even now there are people are born with photographic memories. Many were autistic people who had to be taken care of in the best of times. Even midgets were treated as "special" at times like oracles or soothsayers. Remote viewers who predicted the enemy was near and were proved wrong didn't fare well. If they were proved right, They were sometimes made rulers. 

A better example of what kind of people gnostics are can be found in group homes, but they used to be placed in lunatic houses or just murdered for their own good by their parents. Dung heaps. Hell. Crazy mothers who go on slashing sprees because the lunatics were still their babies. Children who aren't raised right, like who never get toilet trained or taught common self discipline have to root little pig or die. Institutionalized. Autistic or Down's Syndrome children who never learn or can learn to fend for themselves are still "sent away" for the good of all. 

Prodigies of all sorts become throwaways when they're not so cute or amazing when they get older and still have to be fed and their diapers changed. Then they join the ranks of the old and feeble. All these people are sent to another line when they get off the train. They don't even get the chance to be slave labor before they're sent to take a group shower. 

A friend came to see me again today. We've been friends for a long time. I knew all his children before they entered first grade, and tomorrow his youngest child is graduating from college. I felt very honored that he chose me to exhibit his pride in his children to. He's come all the way from being an out and out drunk to raising his kids right and owning several businesses. Too bad I couldn't keep up.
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