So, You’re Too Smart to Join a Cult, Huh?

Exploring what gives cults power

Photo Credit: Mary Rose Mara

There’s an old adage in the cult recovery world: No one joins a cult. They join a religion, or a sect, or an offshoot of a social or political movement. It’s only when the group has wrapped tentacles around the follower that victims realize they are in a cult, and by then it’s probably too late.No one thinks they would follow Charles…