The Importance of the Contradiction in a Group Circumstance That Involves Carismatic Preaching

i was recruited into a cult based around a carismatic teacher who taught out of a course in miracles. The person would often have a kind of euphoric collapse and feel as though they were truly alined, or that's when your body was fully healed. In real life situations where this stuff is applied with great intensity, it's the contradiction itself that provokes a sort of stress response. It can anyway give people the impression that they've been transported to another reality.

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