Wanting answers, wanting to know the truth, craving security and firm ground to stand on can draw vulnerable people into cults. Cults have all the answers, and all you have to do is believe and go along for the ride. But I learned to take responsibility for my own salvation in the church and learned how to question the unquestionable. The people there were looking for real answers on some level, but the answers can t come from an institution or a minister or teacher. Buddhism would have been considered a heathen religion in the churches I attended.
Some fundamentalists say about mysticism It begins in mist and ends in schism.
And yet everyone is seeking, needing to know God, or True Nature, or whatever word that is used to define that which is indefinable, boundless, limitless and unborn. In all religions there are mystics who can t be tied down by doctrine, belief, revealed knowledge or authority. Freed of limits, the world opens up to unplanned avenues. My personal mantra for a long time was Ask and it will be given, seek and you will find. God calls out to us to become aware of our Christ Nature.