Category: Temple Degree-ONE to THREE

  • Pattern Seeking Behavior

    Human beings are trained to seek relationships. It’s a defining element of our cognitive functions that allows us to find meaning in the often chaotic circumstances that take place around us on a daily basis, and find a way forward. Unfortunately, this adaptive instinct can become hyperactive and backfire, leading…

  • Lack of Scientific Literacy

    See this first: Unfortunately, most people can’t tell the difference. According to Scott Lilienfeld, an assistant professor of psychology at Emory, the level of scientific literacy is startlingly low, even amongst comparatively well-educated Western populations. Consider the fact that only 7% of people surveyed in a recent scientific poll could…

  • The Flood of Information

    See the first part here: Firstly, with the explosion of information that’s taken place in recent years, there has been a similarly massive influx of misinformation. Cults have taken advantage of this by adopting the lexicon of trusted sources. In this very manifesto, we find references to phenomena such as…

  • Analyzing the “27- MANIFESTO No. 1-Section INITIATE Degree1-Master Monograph-AMORC” By AMORC Whistleblower Pierre S. Freeman

    “Unlike the official monographs, the Manifestos are not strictly confidential and private. You may lend them to persons interested in scientific, literary, or artistic pursuits. In this way, you will respond to their desire to learn, while also permitting them to appreciate the interest that Rosicrucians have always devoted to…

  • Contradictions Strengthen Belief

    Once someone has drunk the Kool-Aid so to speak, it becomes increasingly difficult to challenge their ingrained beliefs. True believers will simply reinterpret conflicting information to make it fit into their existing world views. In other words, when science and rationality doesn’t work, there’s always mysticism and magical thought to…

  • Pattern Seeking Behavior

    Human beings are trained to seek relationships. It’s a defining element of our cognitive functions that allows us to find meaning in the often chaotic circumstances that take place around us on a daily basis, and find a way forward. Unfortunately, this adaptive instinct can become hyperactive and backfire, leading…

  • Lack of Scientific Literacy

    Unfortunately, most people can’t tell the difference. According to Scott Lilienfeld, an assistant professor of psychology at Emory, the level of scientific literacy is startlingly low, even amongst comparatively well-educated Western populations. Consider the fact that only 7% of people surveyed in a recent scientific poll could answer basic questions…

  • The Flood of Information

    Firstly, with the explosion of information that’s taken place in recent years, there has been a similarly massive influx of misinformation. Cults have taken advantage of this by adopting the lexicon of trusted sources. In this very manifesto, we find references to phenomena such as electromagnetism and particle motion; these…

  • Analyzing the “27- MANIFESTO No. 1-Section INITIATE Degree1-Master Monograph-AMORC”

    By AMORC Whistleblower Pierre S. Freeman From Christian Bernard Monographs “Unlike the official monographs, the Manifestos are not strictly confidential and private. You may lend them to persons interested in scientific, literary, or artistic pursuits. In this way, you will respond to their desire to learn, while also permitting them…

  • Theosophical Beliefs

    See this first: Analyzing the “60- Master Monograph Section Initiate Degree 7 Nos. 4-6”-Part 1” In the intervening years to the modern era, reams of occult literature and multiple systems of thinking have emerged regarding the possibility of achieving communion with the “higher planes.” Of course, this is one of…