Been watching a both NXIM documentary series….
My suspicion is that they may be whitewashes to limit NXIM as an isolated fall guy of cults. Back in the same time period NXIM was getting going up North, down here I was seeing a girl who was getting all caught up Landmark Forum. She didn’t believe me when I told her that was she was involved in a cult so I let her go. Then years later I was seeing another girl who later told me she too had done Landmark and was able to talk about it more freely because she had realized it was cult though she still defended some of their “curriculum” I think as a consolation defense mechanism. I charge red flags (Both girls were hot and crazy in bed, so don’t judge).
Anyway, my point is that I wonder if these cults are all the same at their core, but spread out regionally under slightly different guises and names, with leeway at the top to start making up much of their own crazy shit to keep them all going.
Anybody got any other cults in their region selling realization of maximizing human potential but with different names from Landmark and NXIVM or Scientology, but flourishing over the last 20 years?
A funny side not about Landmark, that killed me when I found out, was that they had essentially commandeered the word “racket” to refer to their version of demons or thetons that needed to be exorcised….so they took a word that describes what they actually are out their real world lexicon and made useless.