But I didn't know as a cult until a few years ago, I started looking into the idea of writing a book.

And so I thought, well, let me look into some of my past experiences and see what I can extract from

there in terms of wisdom or experience. So I went on Facebook and I looked up Rocky Mountain Academy

alumni thinking I might find some of the students that I was there with. And all I found were like

Rocky Mountain Academy survivors. You know, these like, I was the only one that all I found were like Rocky Mountain Academy survivors.

Wow.

You know, these like, I was the only one that kind of didn't know that it was a cult.

And most people didn't consider themselves graduates or alumni, but rather survivors

and had been quite traumatized by the experience.

So it's interesting that one can have an experience that's viewed as abuse from one lens. While my

experience, being ignorant of some of the abusive elements of it, it really saved my life. And to

this day, I mean, I don't think I would change anything because where I would have been had I not

been there and had a major pattern interrupter is absolutely for sure within the prison system.

This is Spirit Jim.

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