If you have spent much time in the northern Front Range, you're probably headed to the mountains, at some point. Our mountains host among its cabins and ranches, little compounds for various religions for "retreats". Mine own religion has Ascension between the Estes- and Allens- Parks. And then there was "Twelve Tribes" which shouldered much of the blame for the Marshall Fire.
Last week I ran into one "Be" Scofield. Scofield is a journalist of cults; we're talking outfits like NXIVM. There's a webpage... and an antiwebpage. So far, so over-target.
I have avoided pronouns. Scofield has a preference. That preference is that we lie... about him. I refuse that. So, here's the para wherein I lay out my marker.
People with mental illnesses and delusions (like transgenders) tend to be drawn to others who affirm their delusion, hence why those in Scofield's party demand of others we bow to the Pronoun. This explains cults also. Such promise to the vulnerable that they can join a team where they will be accepted, loved even. In the process the cultist loses everything. Often the cultist does, in his/her old life, have those who care - not least family. The cult promises better. A vulnerable person might not wholly be able to tell the real from the predatory.
I am not picking on leftists, here. There thrives plenty of cult on the Right - QAnon, infamously. This, before we get into religion.
They say it takes a thief to catch a thief, a hacker to catch a hacker; psychologists often join that profession because of their own demons. It seems it takes a delusionary to take down cults.
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