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Stocking discusses his time in a Christian fundamentalist cult, and one of the reasons he stayed in it so long - his prayers were usually answered, often with astonishing precison. Eventually he realized that lots of people - religious or otherwise - had prayers answered, or affirmations, or spells, or whatever. The universe appears to be a wish granting machine... how many of us mistake that basic goodness for evidence that our particular approach is the only valid 'spiritual technology'?
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Stocking discusses his time in a Christian fundamentalist cult, and one of the reasons he stayed in it so long - his prayers were usually answered, often with astonishing precison. Eventually he realized that lots of people - religious or otherwise - had prayers answered, or affirmations, or spells, or whatever. The universe appears to be a wish granting machine... how many of us mistake that basic goodness for evidence that our particular approach is the only valid 'spiritual technology'?
