Susan, I am sorry to hear people raised in the cult have felt dismissed by our responses here.
The point I made was that ours was not the only cult and that our generation also got born into some pretty weird circumstances.
I can understand this might be taken as being dismissive of their experience but it's actually just an attempt to put it into context - I am attempting to ease the burden, not minimise it.
I would like very much to hear what it was like for the premie children, I have felt concern for so long, even as a young premie, simply on the basis that they were made to feel like they came second in their own nest whenever there was a festival.
I still feel disgusted when I think of Rawat. Most of the time even though I might be talking about him, it's a bit arm's length, I don't see him in my mind's eye but just then I saw that great big cuckoo sitting in the middle of the nest, shedding it's dirt everywhere. ugh!