but we don’t yet know what it is about those institutions that allow them to form such communities.
As a first guess: couldn’t it be the fact that they explicitly claim to put their community members in touch with cosmic, existential truths larger than their own lives and daily concerns?
As a first guess: couldn’t it be the fact that they explicitly claim to put their community members in touch with cosmic, existential truths larger than their own lives and daily concerns?
As a first guess: couldn’t it be the fact that they explicitly claim to put their community members in touch with cosmic, existential truths larger than their own lives and daily concerns?
The closest analogy I can think of is that it’s like being part of an enormous LARP with millions of participants and thousands of years of history.
It could very well be that, yes.