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Follow on Google News | Annoy your friends and family - join a cult!A new cult is infesting our streets… but could it possibly be a “nice” cult?
I doorstep Luke Andreski during a conference in his local city, Bristol UK, and ask him some challenging questions about his new project. Aren’t cults fundamentally wrong-headed? “Generally that’s the case,” Luke tells me, ushering me into his quiet and studious household, “but my cult is different. Firstly, it is a fun cult, a cult which is meant to make you smile, a cult which is about nothing other than happiness: increasing our own personal happiness and the happiness of everyone around us.” I suggest that many cults claim exactly the same thing. “But there’s one crucial difference,” In that case, I ask, how in fact do you become a member of Maxus Irie? “It’s very easy and very transparent,” “Secondly, I asked myself the question, ‘Why should the orthodox religions or the traditionally religious have all the fun? Why shouldn’t those who are less involved with specific religions or creeds enjoy the pleasures and benefits of prayers, hymns and rituals?’ And my answer was, ‘Let’s create some prayers and rituals and hymns that anyone, anywhere, of any persuasion or religious belief (or of no belief at all) can participate in and enjoy. Hymns and prayers and rituals whose sole aim is to make you feel happier, and to help you share that happiness with those around you… “So I wrote the book How To Be Happy, The Maxus Irie Book Of Happiness, set up the website www.captivatingcult.com, designed the t-shirts… and launched the cult!” So are you saying that Maxus Irie, your ‘captivating cult’, is not in fact a cult? Luke bounces that back at me with a question of his own: “How many cults do you know which call themselves cults? How many cults say, ‘Hey, don’t call us a religion – we’re a cult!’ Or ‘Don’t bother joining us – just smile!’” Not many, I admit, as I finish my herbal concoction... And then it’s clear that our time is up and Luke needs to get back online to converse with his disciples via the Maxus Irie Facebook page and Twitter. Once again on the doorstep I ask, Do you have a last message you would like to share with my readers? “Yes,” Luke replies with a smile. “In fact I do. Tell your readers that life can be painful, so change that. Tell your readers to do something wild today. Tell them to do something good, something lasting, something based solely on happiness. Tell them to annoy their friends and family – and join my cult!” Luke Andreski’s ebook, philosophy, blog and t-shirts can all be accessed via his website, www.captivatingcult.com. And studiously and happily in his calm and quiet home he continues his work on Being Content: The Maxus Irie Book Of Contentment and his two novels-in-progress Green Messiah and Elven Dogs. End
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