Groups Are Conformity

In a group, we lose individuality, and identify with belonging and groupthink. Groups only survive through everyone thinking the same way. To disagree is considered heresy.

All enlightened beings have stepped outside the group, and could therefore have been thought of as heretics.

Groups are easier to control than individuals. And this is where Mara steps in, tweaking the teaching into a form – formalising it – and we’re back to groupthink.

Throughout history, people have realised the truth in their personal way; it was others who then turned it into a religion, with the result of second-hand groupthink.

Outside a group, we are free to experience everything directly, first-hand.