Rom Landau writes in Sex Life and Faith: "Over and over again in the course of the last fifteen or so years I have been approached by men and women who had thrown themselves whole-heartedly into movements that practised public confessions, sharing, surrender, and all the rest. As a result of their conversion they imagined that they have solved all their spiritual, mental, and material problems, but after a short time they found themselves more entangled in their own complexes, phobias, and vices than before their `change.' Often their married lives had been shipwrecked; their business affairs, conducted in response to `guidance' and not to reason and professional knowledge, had become chaotic; and their sexual lives were either repressed, warped, and full of psychological ill-effects, or indiscriminately promiscuous. It seemed as if whatever moral stamina they had once possessed had deserted them; and they were left without self-reliance or the ability to discriminate between right and wrong. Believing that God had `let them down,' they substituted for their former religious faith an embittered cynicism, and, as a result, were lacking in most of these elements out of which they might have built a new philosophy of life. This was inevitable."
-- Notebooks Category 16: The Sensitives > Chapter 11 : Fanaticism, Money, Powers, Drugs > # 93
