I can only give my deepest regrets for loosing your children this way. I hope that the heads of Praise chapel know what the effects of their doing are.
Forum: Destructive Churches

Dear everyone, we are planning an intentional community on a remote island that is a parenting experiment at the same tine. What we need to know is if we constitute a cult and what we can do against: Isolating our younger members from the rest of the world is clearly something that cults do but on the other hand I never heard of any cult that pays exit money to leaving members. Befor
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You are right, Shavoy. India is very different to western countries like USA or Canada. Here, people live much more closely and have bigger families and the society is also close-knit. We don't have heavy privacy issues here. It's very easy here to form groups and have communication with strangers. For us, a meeting like SGI turns more into social gathering and freedom from anxieties
Forum: Former Cult Members and Affected Families

I have been into Soka Gakkai, India for last two years and during this period I have had chance to attend meetings at 3 different places within my city due to transfers of my job and movement to another house in different part of the city. My overall experience in the practice is that of disillusionment and deception, though I am still into practice and chanting. Like most average Indians, I too
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