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Not quiet on my Way front. Every month Undertow is sold somewhere in the world according to sales reports I get from my book printer/distributor IngramSpark. And messages from readers continue to amaze me, especially from people from my daughter's generation. Some as young as 35. Anyway, you'd be surprised how and where word has spread about the cult called The Way International. Keep sharing your story, fellow Greasespotters. Word gets around. BTW, The International Cultic Studies Association sells Undertow in their bookstore.

IF this is true (and it's entirely plausible), what does it mean for The Church (as defined in the NT), and gifts or manifestations of the spirit?

Part of TWI's history, in my view, is how a uniquely American belief helped shape VPW's teachings: that America was founded to be a Christian nation. About 35 years ago, I examined this belief in a paper I wrote for a creative writing class at what was then called Valencia Community College in Orlando, FL. I've posted it here for anyone interested in the fundamentalist aspect of TWI. Note - my name at the time I wrote the paper was Charlene Bishop. I was still married to my first husband, T*m Bish*p, from the Rye, NY fellowship. We married the day after we graduated from the Second Corps in 1973. In Undertow, I gave Tim the alias of Ed. We divorced in 1991. Cheers! Fund to Freedom_C_Edge.pdf

Good one. I wish it was longer. I’ve previously referred to the increasingly prevalent idea among neuroscientists and physicists that consciousness is fundamental. Panpsychism Theory; Rupert Sheldrake’s (a Christian) Morphic Resonance Theory; Donald Hoffman’s Conscious Realism Theory… see also, philosophers Phillip Goff and Bernardo Kastrop… and others… This idea is more ancient than NT. Some modern scholars argue that a psychedelic experience (non-normal consciousness) was foundational to the Ancient Greek Eleusinian mystery cult. Plato pointed to a fundamental consciousness. And even the 13th century Christian Dominican theologian, Meister Elkhart, talked about God as the very “ground of being” - the ground of consciousness. No. The “word of knowledge” is not a precious, special “gift” given only to fundamentalist American evangelicals who merely name it and claim it. Paul didn’t have a monopoly on it, either, even if he believed he did. I don’t begin with conclusions like victor and Loy. I don’t begin with belief. I only know that I know that I don’t know, and there is great liberty and “power with impact” in the not knowing.

Yes I listened to Ems story. Grew up partially in TWI partially in a splinter. She identifies as queer and is married to another lady and is happy post TWI. Her story involves a father forcing kissing strangers on them and trying to control dating and abuse. I mean a lot of the problem behavior seems to have been the father. She mainly identified religion and spirituality to being mark and avoid and has an e-mail contact for herself with that in the title. Sexual abuse and shunning. I’m sure all the little moglets at the Way will find a way to blame her for the trauma. They are good at that. What they won’t be good at is standing in front of my Lord Jesus Christ without that smug look on their face giving an account of the impact like this their life caused.

Close, it's The Proclaimers with "I'M GONNA BE (500 MILES)".