The actress Allison Mack, (from Smallville) has been in news lately about her role in sex cult Nxivm, pronounced NEX-ee-um (thanks Bw81 for correction)
There's a great podcast covering it all on Uncover: The Village CBC Podcasts
It's a 7 part series and it's juicy as hell. Complete with people being branded. Financial advisor members being fleeced outta $1.6m to $65 MILLION - each. Along with the lawyer defending this POS is the same lawyer who helped the Pharma Bro asshole.
So, yeah. The awful is enticing. Enlightening. Kinda scary these things occur in modern times. I mean, it's easy to understand backwoods Mormons. But these were educated, successful, and modern folk. Weird.
One term that comes up is Ontological Insecurity. Which is fascinating and probably a good term for all people prone to religion and/ or cults.
http://https://podcasts.apple.com/ca...r/id1364665348