Why Not Spread RC Knowledge via the Internet? Reform and Orthodox RC?

This could be the most controversial piece at this blog ever. At least for people who value RC and understand why not to distort RC Theory and why not to mix it with all kinds of “foreign” ideas.

RC and Orthodox Judaism

Tell me if you too see in the following, parallels between RC and Orthodox Judaism.

Practicing Judaism is more important than contemplating it. The basic Jewish texts as in the Torah and the Talmud are not open for revision. Not everyone gets to decide what is proper Judaism and what is not. In Judaism, special care is taken that its unique message doesn’t get distorted or watered-down with “foreign” ideas. In the beginning it seemed that all people needed to become Jews (“a great people”) but we now know that that will never happen. Jews are a small group, so they need to preserve their mission against a great many outside people and ideas. Jews hold teachings of importance to the rest of mankind.

So far, did you too see things that sound like preserving RC’s teachings?

Very different are the next points.

The differences

Gentiles have not waited until the Jews were ready to teach everyone. As soon as the Hebrew Bible was translated into Greek, Gentiles have begun to take the basics of Judaism and mixed them with foreign concepts, left parts out and even changed things. Billions of people now live by such religions originally built on Judaism, while there are only at most 10 million Orthodox Jews around. Besides that, many non-Orthodox-Jewish congregations and streams have come up too.

Furthermore, though Orthodox Judaism now may be looking pretty backward, much of modernity is rooted in it, like: equality for the law, universal suffrage, anti-racism, free will, universal laws of nature, etc. Without Jews’ input, humanity would be in a different place altogether.

Yet, non-RCers hardly have heard of RC. Its wisdom has not been revealed to many non-RCers at all.

I want to suggest, since Judaism is around much longer than RC, that these differences could be predicting where RC is (and should be) going.

Popularizing RC

In the olden days, when RC was young and its Theories were not yet tested on other continents and people from all cultures, it made a lot of sense to carefully guard what ideas were spread with the RC trademark.

Especially it was found that attempts to mass communicate RC did not work well. This was often tried because it circumvents having to discharge one’s embarrassment. Yet, personal guidance by an RC teacher seems essential to get the RC message across and not distorted by personal biases or people getting stuck in not doing sessions.

However, this was when the RC Communities were shaky and there was no Internet yet. Things have changed. Orthodox RCers may want to keep our heritage pure and unadulterated, but the world needs our insights.

RC Discoveries are not our Private Property!

Not just are billions of people in great need to learn the basics of what we’ve found in RC, those discoveries are not our private property! In the past 65 years, billions of people have gone to their graves in the firm life-long conviction that crying is harmful. They never had someone warmly listen to their even smallest upsets. I find this intolerable.

Crying is beneficial when not drugged. Taking turns work better than interrupting each other. The Person is not the Pattern. There is no evil intelligence. There are no Shoulds in the Universe. Etc., etc., etc.

What will happen when we start proclaiming RC’s basics all over the Internet? They will get distorted. Opportunists will glue their own advertisements to them for profit. All kinds of believers will hijack our findings. Learned and fake experts will begin to deny its truths.

This may be painful to watch for purists and lovers of honesty. But at least it gives to every person in the world a rejection of the almost universally believed nonsense that so long has chained us all.

Billions of people should learn some kind of insight into discharge soon. Just like billions learned Monotheism from the Jews. Non-RC will be attached to it, but still, this is progress, just like all kinds of non-Jewish ideas got mixed up with the Monotheism but still spread its central teachings. Reformist Counseling Communities will rise up. This is not bad. It will be high-jacked by moneymakers, but in the end, people will figure out what’s true and what’s nonsense. Non-RCers will come to RC to check the basics, just like many Gentiles sometimes try to get a glimpse of original Jewish wisdom. Caring grownups the world over will stop babies from crying a bit less. Do it for the babies! Idol worship (with its useless sacrifices) is seriously down in the world now most people believe in Monotheism. The Torah was given in the desert (no man’s land) to show that it’s not the Jews’ private property, but a teaching to be passed on to all of humanity. It’s unthinkable that RC, with Class Liberation at its heart, would form a new elite, unwilling to include all humans into our circles. RC must stay Orthodox and guard the pureness of RC Theory and practice, but it must become liberal (generous) in the spreading of its findings.

Change Now!

I insist that we will make the spreading of RC’s findings a part of the RC One Point Principle and start disseminating them from now on to every corner of the Internet, with great priority.

Our goal is no longer to drastically enlarge the number of RCers. (But the Communities do need to reach people from more cultures.) Our goal is to have the whole world take turns – also outside of RC. Do it for the babies.

And apparently, I’m not the only one who believes so. So much for my bold thinking. Present Time brings a New Website for People New to RC. Here you may find the basics, among them a Glossary of RC jargon terms. And a link to all basic counseling literature. Some of these texts may say what you always believed – even if you never told anyone or never heard so from anyone. Others may be eye-openers. And some may be hard to digest – and for that we do sessions – and the site helps you how to start them.

All RC texts come from our attempts to heal our distresses and help others to do the same, to help create a world where people don’t hurt each other but rather help each other heal and from thinking about what seems to work and what didn’t. So these are the results of experiment and work, not of academic theorizing and philosophizing.