{"id":99988,"date":"2014-01-11T17:53:19","date_gmt":"2014-01-11T22:53:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/uncategorized\/loren-escapes-cult-challenges-spirituality.php"},"modified":"2014-01-11T17:53:19","modified_gmt":"2014-01-11T22:53:19","slug":"loren-escapes-cult-challenges-spirituality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/spirituality\/loren-escapes-cult-challenges-spirituality.php","title":{"rendered":"Loren escapes cult &amp; challenges spirituality"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p>Written by Corwin Gibson                    January 9th, 2014              <\/p>\n<p>    Like many who have made Sedona their home, Christopher Loren    came to Sedona in search of spiritual answers, but after 16    years, hes changing all the questions.  <\/p>\n<p>    Loren grew up in a religious household and went on a journey    over the course of his life, moving from one religion or    spiritual doctrine to the next  even at one point finding    himself in a cult  before beginning to question the role of    spirituality in his life.  <\/p>\n<p>    I started a spiritual journey 30 years ago. I was about 19, I    became a Christian, and in a five-year period I did missionary    work in Haiti, I had a local cable Christian show in California    where I preached the gospel, I was involved with a missionary    organization up in Oregon, I was part of a group in Ohio which    ended up being a cult and I escaped them on foot, he said,    listing off his experiences. So it was a five-year journey    through the Christian universe, so to speak, and I began asking    better questions.  <\/p>\n<p>    For the full story, see the Friday, Jan. 10, edition of the    Sedona Red Rock News.  <\/p>\n<p><!-- Auto Generated --><\/p>\n<p>Go here to see the original:<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.redrocknews.com\/News-Stories\/loren-escapes-cult-challenges-spirituality.html\" title=\"Loren escapes cult &amp; challenges spirituality\">Loren escapes cult &amp; challenges spirituality<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Written by Corwin Gibson January 9th, 2014 Like many who have made Sedona their home, Christopher Loren came to Sedona in search of spiritual answers, but after 16 years, hes changing all the questions. Loren grew up in a religious household and went on a journey over the course of his life, moving from one religion or spiritual doctrine to the next even at one point finding himself in a cult before beginning to question the role of spirituality in his life. I started a spiritual journey 30 years ago <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/spirituality\/loren-escapes-cult-challenges-spirituality.php\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"limit_modified_date":"","last_modified_date":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-99988","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spirituality"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99988"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=99988"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99988\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}