::: A more neutral and better sourced way of making the same point which represents significant points of view may be something like the following which is taken from  Take Back Your Life: Recovering from Cults and Abusive Relationships by Janja Lalich and Madeleine Tobias (Bay Tree Publishing)which I came across it on http://www.cultmediation.com/infoserv_articles/whojoinscults.htm. People are more susceptible to cults "when one is rushed, stressed, uncertain, lonely, indifferent, uninformed, distracted, or fatigued…." Some researchers claim that as Transcendental Meditation has a tendency to reduce stress and fatigue practitioners are less susceptible to cults.   
 ::::Having read a few sites about cults it strikes me this section is very unbalanced. The term really does not apply except in very limited cases as far as I can see and given human variability that is what one would expect.