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Hello, everyone. It is so good to talk to you today. It is so lovely that you have been

continuing to support this podcast. And I love being able to produce extra content for you

for that reason. So today I want to talk about what happens when the cult leader is attacked,

or there is this perception that the world is against the cult leader, or there is an article

about them, or a expose done.

It also happens in certain political movements where you can see that if the leader is attacked,

then the people who work for him or around him or who are supporters of his just lose their mind. They cannot handle it. They

have to go after you. And they will often sort of make ad hominem attacks in response, which means

attacks that are just about you as a person or they might, like it's the kind of a kid bully response. Those are usually

ad hominem attacks, like, well, you're ugly or something that's irrelevant. And also usually

not true. But they don't have enough material to really defend themselves in any real way because the leader

potentially is, you know, guilty of doing the things that they've been called out on doing,

but instead they just attack you as being unspiritual or that's Satan working through you or

you're just being stupid or unenlightened.

So there's something that's important to learn about, which is cult dynamic.

So if you are within a cultic system and I'm going to group certain political movements

and other businesses and other environments that are cult-like,

then you are really able to kind of see how this can happen as a group that sometimes people

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