The path of enlightenment ends in a number of ways. One can get tired of it and
just drop the whole thing out of disinterest. One can die or become mentally
incapacitated. And there are two forms of disillusionment. One is it didn't
work out as expected, with a feeling of grave disappointment resulting from the
discovery that it was not nearly as good as one believed it would be or worse.
The other is it didn't work out as expected, but the disillusionment is the
kind that was originally intended by the word enlightenment, and then things
are pretty much as they always were, and OK. It seems to me MJ is pissed and
has a long term grudge because he was fired from MIU for not going to the dome,
and that not going to the dome had a valid medical reason. Most employees in
the United States work 'at will' which means that a person can be fired for any
reason that is not illegal. MJ's firing seems to be in an interesting grey area
legally, and it probably could not have been fleshed out without a lawsuit to
test the case. Most people on staff in the movement though, as 'serfs', do not
have the resources to challenge the movement's sometimes bizarre decisions.
Going to the dome as a condition of employment, regardless of the
unsupportability of the hypothesis for going there, and yet being exposed to
hazardous substances there that require medical intervention would be an
interesting test case. As with everyone else, people working and administering
in cults and other peculiar organisations are just getting through the day. If
they do strange and dark things, they probably do not see it that way at all,
they are just getting though another day with whatever resources are available
to them. Sometimes the mind cannot let go even when the situation is clear it
is never going to be resolved the way we would like. Usually one is miserable
in such a situation.
