The idea of one person having a vision of what reality is always comes under skepticism. Who is this person to tell me what to do and what really is?

When it gets further extrapolated to a codified system, then we run into some real problems. This is why, I suspect, there is a general mistrust (and even disdain) for any organized religious structure.

After all, the system needs to be maintained by humans, who don’t always carry an altruistic desire in their hearts.

To be blunt—some people are jerkface jerks.

Yet, the real problem is before the vision even became a system. They were shared thoughts, observations, stories and insight meant to move people to something deeper in their own lives.

To say the vision is a scam disregards the truths found within it.

The real scam are the followers who, sometimes through no fault of their own, mark those visions with their own worldviews (full of biases) and share those as the original message.

It’s akin to the “legendary” stories we tell about people we know and then find out those stories may have been slightly exaggerated. Of course, the author of this site has never been guilty of such behaviour.

Before we throw the baby out with the bath water, it might be in our best interest to strip away the biases and ask why this vision was given, out of which context and for which purpose.

We may walk away with more wisdom than what’s presented at face value.