First time I heard and learned about Cargo Cult at a lecture of Erich von Däniken I attended with Babba Max many many years ago. As far as I remember Däniken turned out to be a rather uptight guy for somebody who should be on top of things - but - we can learn something from wherever we are ready to learn something.

Coming where Däniken is coming from, he saw cargo cults in primitive tribes that could have never had any contact with space travel mimicking just that.

But to observe cargo cult we don't really have to go far away to primitive tribes that are visited by aliens from outer space.

Let's look around us - or even better yet - at ourselves.

How does cargo cult come about? Observing something that might look like magic - like a plane taking off when the most advanced form of transportation you know is a camel's back - and then trying to imitate that without knowing the technology behind it, which would, if you had it, would make it all very clear and simple.

Now, how often have you learned a new spiritual technique, tried it - and it worked. - Then didn't - and then did - - - and then didn't?

I think we all had many of those, didn't we? I believe at those moments we were true followers of a cargo cult, a spiritual one. That pilot that takes off from a dirt strip, observed by the primitive tribe, knows his technology, and there is no faith of any kind involved of getting him in the air (OK, from a higher view point there is, but we are not talking about that here.)

But the members of that tribe will need faith when they build that contraption of twigs and leaves, sit somebody in it and throw it in the air. Sometimes that test pilot will have a success because of a gust of wind or some other circumstances out of the control and perception of the experimenters.

My personal spiritual cargo cult has been the postulate - the scientology one. Sometimes I made one and it worked, even though my personal argumentation was mostly backwards: something worked great as I wanted it and so I decided that I must have made a great postulate.

But this is a rather silly way of making a postulate, right? Think of the pilot taking off, here.

Making a non-cargo-cult postulate would be simply be making a decision knowingly and then it would be that way.

I might now be on the verge of understanding the simple technology behind postulates which should make them as easy to use as the pilot uses his plane for take-off.

I will keep you posted - - or not ...