I wasn’t the first person in my family to run off to San Francisco to join a movement of fringe countercultural weirdos that later somehow found itself at the vanguard of American elite culture.
Excellent questions to ask when joining any group.
"Cults Inside Out: How People Get In and Can Get Out" by Rick Alan Ross gives a pretty good overview of how cults work. It more or less aligns with what you say.
Seems like a solid checklist.
Other filters that have been proposed to me:
* Are they asking you for financial resources, or willing to pay you for your work?
* Are they the kind of cult that employ men with guns (your millage may vary on this one, depending on the social context you happen to be living in)
A cult is just a toxic relationship with a room full of people
I would kill for a title like that
Excellent questions to ask when joining any group.
"Cults Inside Out: How People Get In and Can Get Out" by Rick Alan Ross gives a pretty good overview of how cults work. It more or less aligns with what you say.
https://www.amazon.com/Cults-Inside-Out-How-People/dp/149731660X/
I assume you've read Eric Hoffer..?