Quite a terrifying read, but not unexpected. These types of cults pop up in America, and usually at least once in a generation there is one that somehow captur

Quite a terrifying read, but not unexpected. These types of cults pop up in America, and usually at least once in a generation there is one that somehow captures peoples imaginations (People’s Temple, Branch Davidians, Heaven's Gate, etc). I don't include Scientology in this list - no matter how insidious that organisation is, it's never lead to a mass suicide. The people who follow these leaders are lost, usually from broken background - some run away from home and fall in to it. The leaders tend to be diagnosed (mostly after the fact though analysts) as narcissists. Polyamory is usually a feature of their style, as well as mental and physical abuse of their followers. They have no problem in "breaking" people for their own sick fantasy.