In the past thousands of years (as soon as some kind of orthodox religion sets in and gets a recognized priesthood), as soon as people develop within themselves spiritually, and continue to remain inside a traditional organisation, they are labeled a heretic and most people do not want to hear their views.
Those in power actively suppress and persecute them, and those in the group who do not also realise the new truth quickly will shun them.
Its like those in charge know that just being exposed to an idea that has dissonance with the consensus world view changes the receiver of the message.
I think at some level it is not the “truth” of the claims by the heretic that those in the established power do not want others to hear, it is more that they want to hold up the “Information Integrity” (there’s a new term for you) of the established tradition.
Introducing evolutionary noise into their closed system will transform it, destroy it. It will break down the power hierarchies (that’s one of the best things that free flowing information does) and open people up to new world views.
The internet has been great for this, and for showing people that there are many other free thinkers out there. And sure, a lot of it may be rubbish, and your own internal filters get better and better and sorting that out as you progress. Better have the choice to use your internal filtering system than having information sanitised and drip fed to you.
This whole idea of internal filters is something that I have talked about elsewhere in the past. It’s this whole yin / yang concept. It’s about having a dynamic balance between a closed and open mind. By looking for the interesting, genuine and wondrous while still remaining skeptical, balanced and grounded. There are no clear answers for this, its all about knowing what the correct action is in the present moment (that one of my own definitions for enlightenment by the way.)
And another thing while I perch on the virtual soapbox a second longer, what is the point of having ’spiritual movements’, if they don’t allow people to spiritually grow? Spiritual growth isn’t learning to do the practice better, the rituals more precisely, to recite the dogma straight from the text the clearest.
It’s about having insight, and using these to grow, share, create and live.