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Diane Perlman, PhD's avatar

Thanks for your thoughtful comment. Yes, Jessica Rose is a gift. I am finding wonderful people on Substack and around. I like her interview with Brian Hooker on CHD TV. The "Put on your mask" song in the article is truly creepy. I hope to cross paths in person some day.

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Diane, I am about to turn 60 this xmas. I was raised in a cult. I left it when I was 17 and managed to get away. I’ve spent my younger life healing and most of my older years believing that I was healed.

What is happening in the world now terrifies me. What I am seeing is exactly what I fought to be free of. What I am experiencing, even amongst the aware, is a real lack of understanding, of comprehension, of how the cult mind works. Of how the mass mind is vulnerable and not believing in the rhetoric does does spare one or insulate one from the slow drip-drip indoctrination via authoritarian pressures and the use of pressure via the peer system.

Coming from my view, which I know is very extreme compared to the average experience, what you’ve written is perfect. I disagree heartily with shortening it. This is not a dissertation for a class of sane people. And probably some of how I respond to your piece is age related meaning, in my day we did a lot of heavy reading and I have never learned to be succinct. That said, This is world war three and if we don’t go in with Everything, then everything will be denied us. When dealing with a cult mind normal approaches don’t work.

Who better then you to know that?

I apologize for spelling errors, and what have you. I don’t normally speak up much but what you have written, what you are doing, touches me so deeply that I had to come out and cheer you on. I salute you. What is happening, as I said, in this world today has made me honour my younger self who found the courage to go it alone. She must have had courage because I know so much more and what I see coming leaves me absolutely shaken.

I honour the strength and truth of your heart Diane.

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