Mysticism -what's the Payoff?

Abdication of personal responsibility. Put your troubles on the Lord. This is a temptation some weak minded people just cannot resist. Thinking is such a chore so when they are told take no thought for the morrow they leap at the chance. Consider the lilies of the field -so they become plant like and then wonder why they suffer mental illness and don't have any motivation to do anything with their lives.

Fatalism and determinism becomes their default mode.They look for a meaning of life that exists somewhere out there, apart from themselves, independent of any action they may take. They cease to be functioning autonomous beings but instead the mere extension of another's will, in this case a disembodied spirit from another dimension. The infantilization of this process, implicit within it will inevitably result.

When they are told explicitly by their spiritual leaders that the thinking process itself is immoral, that the intellect is not to be trusted one has only to project what this does to their cognitive process, their epistemological functioning, their way of looking at the world,their evaluation of anything they see or hear.With the thinking process hampered,compromised the only thing left is seeking to interpret the emotional emanation of others which they must some how divine from those around them by some bizarre undefined means usually going by the name of intuition which they are told is superior to mere cognition and is the result of some innate ability automatically acquired from birth.

The notion of tabula rasa, the blank slate condition of the pre perceptual and conceptual awareness of a baby is rejected in favour of the Platonic innate ideas theory of knowledge. Taken into adulthood this can only lead to arrested intellectual development, a distrust and disinclination to think ergo evaluate or understand.

Such a cretinised person is now putty in the hands of the mystics who have effectively gained an ascendancy over the minds of their victims -or what's left ofthem.