The word ‘narcissist’ is shorthand for someone with Narcissist Personality Disorder, which is a medical diagnosis for someone displaying observable characteristics including an inflated sense of their own importance, an insatiable need for attention and admiration and a pathological lack of ability to experience empathy. At its core, however, a narcissist can be thought of […]
If you’ve ever had a numinous spiritual experience, fallen in love, experienced joy at your sports team winning, or even become trapped in an abusive relationship or cult, then you will have experienced ‘Participation Mystique.’ Jung described Participation Mystique in many places, building on ideas by Lucien Lévy-Bruhl. It is is a powerful concept for
There was much I had to learn during my own exit and recovery from the inner circle of an exploitative Buddhist cult. In my months of untangling all the useful lessons from the poison, I probably acquired the equivalent of a Masters degree in Buddhism. Although I did not change my name. This task was
The workplace isn’t somewhere commonly associated with ‘cults.’ But a cult can be any group of people bound together by codependent dynamics. Exploitative cults can form not just around religion, but in politics, self-help groups and in the conventional workplace. Cults are in fact far more common in the modern workplace than many people realise
Cults can be a vehicle for spiritual growth as well as a trap. But one thing that defines them as a cult is that they do intend, consciously or not, to be a trap. A typical cult will suggest that their way is “the” way, and that the only way forward is through them and
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