Oh for sure. In addition they created their own lexicon used in the context of the teachings and did all sorts of compliance exercises (making the room repeate

Oh for sure. In addition they created their own lexicon used in the context of the teachings and did all sorts of compliance exercises (making the room repeatedly stand up, forced us to call friends/family to confess and recruit). The thing is, I went in knowing all this. I knew exactly what they were doing, knew the background of the org, and went anyway to support a couple friends. It still got me right at the end, as I was sitting in my chair thinking how ready I was to go home, within the second to last hour of the 3 day retreat. I didn't come away thinking better of the event, but I was damn curious about the psychological impacts of group empathy, how the room had almost attained some resonant frequency of emotional harmony and I was swept up in it.