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In Reply to: Musings posted by Refugee (reposted) on January 07, 2005 at 20:32:40:
Issue one: Recruitment to join vs. joining.
When a person goes into a Playboy club, they seek it out because they know just what they want and where to get it. Same goes for someone seeking out a crack house.
When a person is recruited into a cult, the cult generally displays the candy coating of idealism and hooks the perspective youth into it's ranks presenting as a place with all the solutions for the world, as a group whose goal is to love each other and love the world (not sexual in the early days on general rank and file levels)and provide healing.
Systematically the person recruited is broken down via many methods. Go look into Margaret Singer's work for more details.
The point is FG adults that joined as youth largely were idealistic or searching for purpose in life and oftentimes coming from an abusive family led to a desire to do something meaningful and healing in their lives, just as some SGs seek to.
They didn't go into a sex cult looking for children to abuse. They didn't recognize abuse as abuse until they could get away from all the indoctrination and garbage in and get help with getting garbage out.
This is a very important point. It is one that seems not to be very palatable around here. It does not excuse what happened to SG or any G in the family. What it could do is help us as exers to support each other even though there are different dynamics in our respective experiences.
It may behoove the coordinator to dig up the e-mails from Beth Peterson who wrote Ultra Authority book referred to at MovingOn Site. She has an outside and professional perspective of damages done to all.
