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Date: June 16, 2018 08:42PM
I just discovered a new video on YouTube (and I think it went up today): The Children of Cults: Special London Talk, June 2018
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IMencHaDDNo [I am obviously misreading the web address; search for Janja Lalich The Children of Cults . Sorry!]
Janja Lalich is an American, who comes from her own, years-long background in cult culture, who--after leaving her group--became an anti-cult expert.
In this (roughly) hour-long presentation in London, she talks about her experiences dealing with adults who grew up IN cults, and the different issues they discover they must deal with when they leave.
(One of the sections in her book, which she talks about, briefly, in this lecture, is the fundamentalist LDS, because one of the women in her book was raised fundamentalist LDS.)
[That being said, most of her talk is devoted to what she discovered about children, in different cults, who had to discover, and learn, and deal with so many different issues (on very practical levels) after they left: many of them had no idea how to deal with the simplest of daily life tasks in non-cult life.]
At one point, she highlights the importance of Internet discussion boards (like this one) for ex-members of cult groups--and how much the people she interviewed learned from "ex-" groups (in general, often having nothing to do with the specific cult THAT person had once been part of).
In other words: "ex-" members of different cult groups have a great deal of extremely welcome information to share with "ex-" members of OTHER cults on most every level of life.
Dr. Lalich talks at length about the importance of practical information to those former cult members who are newly "ex-"...and how difficult finding that information can be for those people (especially since they grew up in cults, so they have no "outside" experience in their own personal histories to fall back on).
The talk is about an hour long, and though most everyone here "already knows [whatever it is]," I, personally, learned a bunch of things I did not know before. (I did not know that there are "martial arts cults," for example.)
If you have an extra hour while you're doing dishes or cleaning the bathroom or something, listening to this talk while you clean (or chop vegetables) would be a good way to spend that time.
Edited 5 time(s). Last edit at 06/16/2018 08:51PM by Tevai.