How to not come off as a cultist  –  Show that your project is
part of a larger and much older tradition. There is almost no
possibility that your ideology is completely new.  Ideas exhibit
evolutionary patterns. We discovered ideas from others, that we
combined and tweaked. And they also developed their ideas
through discovery, combining, and tweaking.  When you point to
that tradition, you are communicating: “I learned from these
people, and maybe you will find value in them as well”. When you
do not make clear reference to your tradition, then others may
think you are pretending to have come up with it all yourself,
or they may actually believe it.  –  Point people to other
current authors and resources. Just as we are only the
recombiners and tweakers of ideas, each of us are also not the
penultimate specialist in all areas of our ideology. Other
people today make valuable contributions to our ideology, and so
it makes sense to lead others there as well.  –  Reaching your
own ideology has involved a lot o