Pure Consciousness, Religion and Culture

Mixing them up can cause confusion.

“For where two or three gather together in my name, there am I with them…”
– Matthew 18.12

Who actually wrote this?

‘When two or three are gathered in my name …’, we will have a committee, an inner circle, a religion and division. Religions capitalise on ritual to create a culture that captures the imagination in the mind.

Exoteric teaching: understood by the many – group therapy.
Esoteric teaching: understood by the few – personal realisation.

Religion: to bind.
Culture: cultivation of the mind, and mannerisms.
Pure consciousness: free of mind, and mannerisms that bind.

Meditation is breaking the habit
of identifying with ideas and images.