Ancient wisdom tells us that everybody we see around us is a perfect mirror of us—the good, the bad, the beautiful, and the ugly.
It also tells us that two or more people working together toward a common cause has a synergistic effect, i.e. the whole is greater than the sum of the parts.
And it tells us that in order for us to grow beyond a certain point, we must begin to share with others what we've been given and what we've learned so far.
Put these three factors together and we begin to see why any genuine striving for enlightenment, healing, and wholeness necessarily requires groups of people working together, guiding by a shared Quest and preferably moderated by somebody who already knows the way.
Put simply, despite what your Material Nature would have you believe, you can only go so far by yourself.
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