On 6/30/23, Undiscussed Groomed for Male Slavery, One Victim of Many <gmkarl+brainwashingandfuckingupthehackerslaves@gmail.com> wrote:
there are so many books on the cult recovery stuff i got a coupon for one written by a lecturer [and bought it in ebook form, it's vitalsource and i'm on linux, hard to rip]
oh btw almost everybody there is a) a survivor and b) a professional it's quite powerful! to be surrounded by therapists for complex trauma and phd researchers and all this stuff, _all of them survivors of mind control_ there are like only a handful of us newbie people and what's funny is i went to one of the online discussion forums and
i joined a book club! it's the first post-conference group i got to. i went to only one thing. i don't know if i will make the next one. it's funny, we'll see how it goes. anyway, the next book they are reading is one by ummmmm i don't immediately have his name all turned-to-normal-words-rather-than-weird-babble. lifton! it's a book by a famous guy named Lifton called uhh "losing reality", sorry about the name, things get weird when you leave the in-person groups. so it makes sense to try to read this book for the book club, or at least it makes a little sense. they're starting it the week after next, but i'm kinda spasmy atm and not sure what to do. btw the book they are finishing now is called umm uhh "cultish", i think it's about languages inside cults not sure, it was hard to attend my first meeting. not sure what i think of it yet, might not have been the best group choice, but atm it's my only one! reading is funny for me, because it's very hard and i tend not to absorb much from it. hence some of the ritual-trials associated with posting books to the list by hand. but i think maybe i can get better at reading! note: lifton's prime book is called "the psychology of totalism" and it's often cited regarding severe coercive psychological change. for some reason we are doing a different book instead. sorry about that. i should have mentioned the suggestive implications of the name, i didn't think of doing this, i was just trying to be there and hear what people were saying a little and find ways to enjoy it so i might be more likely to return. funny, i'm trying to get to the library genesis page but i'm on free government mobile and libgen is blocked by opendns. i guess i could use tor, but i already downloaded the book on another device anyway.