The Rotten Egg Principle

The underlying spiritual message and the transmitting medium who conveys it,though related, are two distinct entities. To throw a carton of eggs awaybecause of one rotten one is silly and wasteful. If we confuse the message andthe medium we ignore the fact that a corrupt religious group can present genuineteachings or that an authentic spiritual discourse can have an illegitimateexpression.There are many actors whom we may respect as masters of their craft yet whom wemay not know or care for on a personal level. Some people even go so far as toboycott an actor's movies because they dislike decisions he is making in hispersonal life (think Mel Gibson after his racist outburst or Tom Cruise afterhis scientology rants). If we can learn to separate the message from the mediumwe can allow ourselves complete access to anything that may assist us on our ownpersonal paths to spiritual understanding and enlightenment without ever havingto put ourselves and our beliefs into a box and thus, limiting our potential forknowledge and maximum benefit.