Cult, A Love Story: Ten Years Inside a Canadian Cult and the Subsequent Long Road of Recovery

obedience-and-authority

• Self-appointed gurus like Limori become skilled at knowing exactly what temperature each person needs to be cooking at to provide her with the greatest element of power and control.

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• I was well trained from ten years of over-ruling treasonous thoughts and feelings. I voiced none of it. 'No,' I said quietly, 'I don't have any questions.'

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trauma-and-survival

• My energy was so dark and devilish that if I touched anyone I would contaminate them, the same as if I'd physically been covered in tar.

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• I stewed in my own pain, could barely swallow for fear, grief and confusion, and the stifled, unacknowledged outrage that filled my throat.

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self-and-identity

• I had lost beliefs, the security that comes with belief, and people, including myself. Without cult dogma I had no tools with which to navigate life.

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• My mental defences let down and I began to feel what was going on in my body. For the first time I experienced the phenomenon of the flexibility of time.

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