Fr. Seán ÓLaoire

that the mystics are beginning to reemerge again.

I think that's happening in some form in Iran, in Persia, in the sense that even though they're kind of organizing against formal religion, what they're kind of uncovering is the kind of the fire of life, in the real sense of the fire of life, the soul self, you know, and that

you know, we need to blow upon those embers and kind of fan it into flame and support, you know, the conflagration, not the burning, not the physical burning of billions, but the burning of a heart on fire with the love of God.

So I give a whole series of homilies in the last three or four months to my own community.

And I call it the 10 Steps from Inspiration to Inquisition.

And I see this not just in religions, I see it in political systems, in economic models, in educational systems, in entertainment models.

that you start off with an extraordinary inspiration, you're inspired by the universe to do something, a new venture.

The second stage is now, you know, often a charismatic character will work with that inspiration and create something new, a Jesus figure or a Buddha figure or whatever.

The third stage is, you know, this is a real dynamic, charismatic character.

And so their followers are going to attach themselves to this person.

That's stage three.

Stage four is, you know, they don't quite understand his teaching, but they're attracted by his personality and by just the energy coming off him.

Stage four is almost inevitably that guy's going to get whacked.

He's going to be taken out of circulation one way or the other.

Doxxed or actually killed.

The fifth stage is now the followers saying, what are we going to do now?

So they create some kind of an organization in his memory, stage five.

Now inevitably stage six happens, which is some kind of a self-apointed oligarchy will rise to the top of that organization at stage six.

Stage seven is now they didn't understand the Master's message.

They were attracted to him, but they didn't really understand what he was about.