First off: Happy New Year!
My Question:
How would one go about starting a New Religious Movement (NRM)?
I'm interested in finding out, but my interest is only academic, I assure you
I maintain a certain religious perspective in parallel to my actual professed belief, but this certain perspective is not manifested by any movement…
Basically: it is a religious world-view with no movement or organisation. It is merely a set of ideas which I hold due to their entertaining and intriguing nature
I’m not serious about doing so, but I’m curious by nature. I already subscribe to one of the world’s major religions and have zero plans of abandoning this for an NRM of my own making, although I have made posts in the NRM DIR on these forums about it...
Also I’m certainly not interested in founding any cult; I’m interested in founding a NRM - there is a big difference, namely cults are sinister and NRMs aren't
I have actually dreamt up some plans for it, but I will not share them here
I’d want to be a founder, not a leader, I wouldn’t want to found an organisation for me to control as a leader. That’s not what I’m about. I’m interested in truth, and spreading truth. I value truth over having power.
And I’m not interested in lording it over a group of followers, financially or sexually exploiting anyone, brain-washing people, controlling people, isolating people, ripping people off, or any of that cult stuff. People would be free to leave and it would all work democratically.
So: How might I go about founding a NRM?
Where would I begin and in what direction should I head?
And remember, I'm not asking about founding a cult...
And FYI, my interest in this is entirely academic!