Very well written Livia!I had afrind who left M to join an even worse cult, where children were made to spy on their parents. It was led by a crazy woman called Lilly Gardeby. A lot of premies visited this Lilly - I just shuddered when I was told about her. Later my friend escaped with her two daughters (her two sons were older and didn't want to leave). There have been a lot of custody trials about the kids.
She went from bad to worse... This Lilly said she could heal her daughter's eye - but her eye never healed during those seven years with the cult. A lot of damage was done to the girls' souls. And they lost their father and brothers to that cult. It is strange that people go from one cult to another...
I think we were made to live in a group of about 15 people (like monkeys do) - all this extra tension with decision-making and meeting a lot of strangers everyday is a heavy burden to our nervous system.