She articulates what her life was like so vividly you can actually feel her anguish. But I don't think you need to be in a cult to feel how she felt, like she would never fit in, like people were staring at her and judging her.
I also have a question. Why are all cults run by men? I can't think of any started by women.
And Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi (Nirmala Srivastava) or Mother by her Yogis. My flute teacher was a member of this cult. I went to a couple of meetings with her as a kid. It was weird. They thought it was just a religion 🙄
Thank you for highlighting the devastation that cults inflict on people and kudos to this brave survivors who Got Out. Just listened to another fascinating episode of The Influence Continuum podcast with Steven Hassan where he interviewed another cult-survivor now-therapist about the need for therapists to be trained about cults so they can effectively help survivors regain their authentic self and THEN help them heal from all their trauma. Otherwise the therapists can be doing the absolute wrong thing while trying to help ex-cult members.
Thank you, Josephine! And I couldn’t agree more. I’ve been very lucky in my therapists (and thank them in my book as well). ICSA and Info-Secte do great work in educating therapists, as does Dr Janja Lalich.
She articulates what her life was like so vividly you can actually feel her anguish. But I don't think you need to be in a cult to feel how she felt, like she would never fit in, like people were staring at her and judging her.
I also have a question. Why are all cults run by men? I can't think of any started by women.
Bickram Choudhury. Anne Hamilton Byrne. Lila Carter. Ma Anand Sheela. Definitely a male dominated profession though
And Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi (Nirmala Srivastava) or Mother by her Yogis. My flute teacher was a member of this cult. I went to a couple of meetings with her as a kid. It was weird. They thought it was just a religion 🙄
Thank you for highlighting the devastation that cults inflict on people and kudos to this brave survivors who Got Out. Just listened to another fascinating episode of The Influence Continuum podcast with Steven Hassan where he interviewed another cult-survivor now-therapist about the need for therapists to be trained about cults so they can effectively help survivors regain their authentic self and THEN help them heal from all their trauma. Otherwise the therapists can be doing the absolute wrong thing while trying to help ex-cult members.
Thank you, Josephine! And I couldn’t agree more. I’ve been very lucky in my therapists (and thank them in my book as well). ICSA and Info-Secte do great work in educating therapists, as does Dr Janja Lalich.
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