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When spiritual seeking in groups becomes evangelical

Our book club started reading spiritual texts together during the pandemic and it became this beautiful searching thing, but now Marcus is pushing us toward his specific meditation practice and it's changing the whole dynamic from exploration to conversion and some of us are getting uncomfortable.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

A shared journey of discovery is threatened when one person's certainty begins to eclipse the group's openness.

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