i don't know how quickly this is happening but i hope on some reasonable timescale we're going to transition from helping each other explore our feelings etc. to helping each other find ways to make money, collaborate on projects, etc. that feel alive, enriching, wholesome
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I have a dream about opening a metamodern wellness center focused on self-improvement, where you can get therapy, a gym, contemplative and spiritual education etc.
A 21st century Gymnasium in the ancient Greek sense. A place to pursue arete.
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Would prob only work in a few large American cities, but imagine a place with a community of self-improovers and coaches and contrarian weirdos with the social/financial pull to host workshops and seminars with ppl like Vervaeke
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this is the sort of idea that i am both excited by and also like “hmm really asking to turn into a cult tho”
Cults are great they just need to be for the right purpose (think navy SEALs)
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I am a former Marine and have friends that are SEALs and I can say I truly wish the state did not maintain warrior cults
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Have thought about this a lot, I think it can be prevented by designing stopgaps into the org.
There are therapist offices all over the country with groups of skilled mental manipulators and hundreds of vulnerable patients. The vast majority of those manage not to become cults.
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Just don't promise Enlightenment or the key to saving the world. Have some elements of "Engaged Spirituality" though, I'd like to see a center where people get in better relationship with the social and political.
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