If you have your own story of being in a cult or a high control group, or if you've had an experience with manipulation or abuse of power, you'd like to share it.

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If you think that one person has all the answers, don't!

Welcome to Trust Me, the podcast about cults, extreme belief in the abuse of power from two politicians

who've actually experienced it, I'm Lola Blonk.

And I'm making all this about vote for us.

This week, our guest, and next week, our guest is Natai Joseph.

He is a former Harry Krishna monk who now has a master's of psychology and coercive control and has a lot of interesting things to say about a lot of topics.

So, in part one of our interview, this week, he's going to tell us about growing up in a moderate Harry Krishna group, what the general Harry Krishna beliefs are,

and getting drawn in by kind of a cooler guru who's seen more with it and brought him to Northern California.

We'll get into what it was like once he devoted his life to the group, the labor exploitation he experienced,

and how the guru's structure is inherently dangerous and why he learned.

And next week, we will discuss an interesting perspective on meditation.

Yeah!

Culturally, kind of, there's a bit of a culty devotion to the idea of meditation right now, and there just is some alternative perspective on some evidence that points to...

It's not being right for everyone.

It's not the cure all, be all.

It's just one sign pointing home.

One what?

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