I m not going to dictate the content for the story. I follow the line of reasoning with my young adult novels as well, or poetry, whatever I am doing. So it took me into scary places, of course. But I think when you are doing that you are moving into areas of your brain tissue that you haven t been before, and when you move into these areas in fiction and in thought you re also moving into new areas of your brain tissue and to say no to them would be to say no to recovering parts of your own body and your own mind and psyche. I would never refuse that.
Cults deliberately misinform about who they are and what their intentions are.
They would love for you to think that they are the freaks on the street corners. They work with the fundamentals of trauma and disassociation, and the programming is structured to work with the way a person will respond under stress and trauma in terms of dissociating and leaving the body. Everything they do is structured along the basic principles of dissociation and trauma, like what I just explained about the number six. You begin to then interact with energy dimensions that we call the paranormal.