The old wives tales we have, family photo albums, or lores and myths of our nation are important to us. If any of those things resonate with you it’s perhaps because one or more of them have agreed with each other in your thinking.
If it sounds right put together we think it probably is right somehow according to our true nature. These things aren’t religious but it’s a sort of spiritual way of looking at our lives. In the meantime the religious can teach us what they think about the greater things.
In this context a sad story or a horrible incident isn’t the easiest of plot twists to include. It may be a close one or a friend who gets caught up in an accident and this leaves us wondering why. Our sense of love and companionship is shattered but it’s what made the times together meaningful, because we loved each other.
There was a story I overheard in a county here in the UK that shook me once I heard it. I’d listened to a few ‘whisperings’ here or there and someone once phrased it as a tipoff. It was something called “The Rollercoaster” but it wasn’t a faire ground ride.
It wasn’t fun at all but an emotionally manipulative “cult” which promised to make anyone who joined feel love or hate, or jealousy or worth, or the opposite or equal of whatever it was that preoccupied the person.
Some people in life feel numb because they experience something or didn’t understand what’s going on. They may also feel an imbalance of one emotion over another. This “cult” tapped into such feelings and drew people away into its strange ways.
There were some members who were eclectic in what they felt and were alternative in the way they saw things. The sad fact is these things happen but the good news is people can recover. The interruptions or episodes in our lives are not there forever.
This “cult” was shut down because in actuality it was a criminal outfit. Thankfully the law enforcement involved could see it was more of a crime than a way of life. There were members who didn’t recover to full health but many more were saved from harm by these people.