Letters to the Editor
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Does it really matter?....Can you say "Disconnect"
Lesse...stay celibate, don't drink cappuccino, fly around like a witch, never get sick, never die (but instead turn into a fireball)...and maybe compulsively lie, abuse and obfuscate a little while you're at it.
It's amazing that all his deep insight didn't seem to help him very much in the end. And it also likely ended the lives of his closest, "most evolved," diciples. You have to wonder how his casual defenders here would have turned out if only they "got with the program" a little more.
But some of you can't yet write him off yet. Yes, he may have seemed witty, chrismatic, profound and gave "real" experiences to you. But consider this - even some of Jim Jones' close followers reported experiencing spiritual (even kundalini) sensations around the good Rev..
If you can't write CC off as another Con Artist, then consider some of the darker aspects of your own beliefs. Consider that such people may have had real communicative, if not "spiritual," or "psychic," gifts. Consider that they also developed huge, abusive egos (and perhaps even a "conscience seared with a hot iron" - maybe a series of them).
Every Light Show has to end sometime, and it's never for free. If you can't accept that it was all just wishfullness or brainwashing, then you have to entertain he was something a bit more diabolical.