The Path - a Cult TV series about a Cult.
Posted: 05 Apr 2016
“The Path” is a new cult TV series about a family in upstate New York that is deeply enmeshed in a "self-help" movement called the Meyerists, a commune with all the telltale signs of being a scary cult based on a powerful vision of a paradise to come (“the Garden”) along with a set of life instructions that foretell the End of the World ... salvation attainable by achieving ladder rungs of knowledge
Sound familiar, anyone?
Other elements become quickly but subtley obvious, e.g. targetting victims of natural disasters (BKWSU - check!), targetting victims of familial abuse (BKWSU - check!), mumbo-jumbo language (BKWSU - check!), think the outside world is corrupt and about to collapse (BKWSU - check!), mystical manipulation of audiences (BKWSU - check!), sexual-emotional intrigues between leaders and followers (BKWSU - check!), power struggles and personal ambitions of leaders (BKWSU - check!), ex-members' websites exposing the truth about the cult (BKWSU - check!) ... however, there's no indication that it was directly inspired by the BKs - like Jane Campion/Kate WInslet's Holy Smoke! (1999) had unless the writer took a trip up to Peave Village - and more that it was inspired by elements of Scientology (electronic meters to measure levels of consciousness, military like codes, punishment routines, and a David Miscavige-like ambitious heir to a sick or dying founder).
I'll be interested to see how the FBI interest is portrayed.
Like both the BKs (shudras) and Scientologists (wogs), they have their own term for non-believers, that being “Ignorant Systemite”, or I.S.
The writer had one very telling and interesting aside ... before they started shooting, while there were setting up a scene in the cult's high street bookshop and meditation centre (BKWSU - check!), people would wander in and want to know what was going on ... not "what they were filming" but "what the movement was, and how they could join"! "People were ready to sign up on the spot" ... proving that you can never discount the power of branding when launching a new sect.
Big eye in the sky radiant logo on t-shirts and walls, "the only art work you need" ... (BKWSU - check!). Look BKs, it's a memorial from last Kalpa.
Sound familiar, anyone?
Other elements become quickly but subtley obvious, e.g. targetting victims of natural disasters (BKWSU - check!), targetting victims of familial abuse (BKWSU - check!), mumbo-jumbo language (BKWSU - check!), think the outside world is corrupt and about to collapse (BKWSU - check!), mystical manipulation of audiences (BKWSU - check!), sexual-emotional intrigues between leaders and followers (BKWSU - check!), power struggles and personal ambitions of leaders (BKWSU - check!), ex-members' websites exposing the truth about the cult (BKWSU - check!) ... however, there's no indication that it was directly inspired by the BKs - like Jane Campion/Kate WInslet's Holy Smoke! (1999) had unless the writer took a trip up to Peave Village - and more that it was inspired by elements of Scientology (electronic meters to measure levels of consciousness, military like codes, punishment routines, and a David Miscavige-like ambitious heir to a sick or dying founder).
I'll be interested to see how the FBI interest is portrayed.
Like both the BKs (shudras) and Scientologists (wogs), they have their own term for non-believers, that being “Ignorant Systemite”, or I.S.
The writer had one very telling and interesting aside ... before they started shooting, while there were setting up a scene in the cult's high street bookshop and meditation centre (BKWSU - check!), people would wander in and want to know what was going on ... not "what they were filming" but "what the movement was, and how they could join"! "People were ready to sign up on the spot" ... proving that you can never discount the power of branding when launching a new sect.
Big eye in the sky radiant logo on t-shirts and walls, "the only art work you need" ... (BKWSU - check!). Look BKs, it's a memorial from last Kalpa.