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Within Closed Doors

Trapped Being in a Cult

By Joy ErgangPublished 6 years ago 3 min read
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I was naive and curious, not thinking much of the consequences until it was too late. Five years later, I am still paying the price for doing an online personality test. I made sacrifices in my life for this new aged religion, and no matter how great of a change I made in my life to come into their fold, it was never good enough. I stopped taking needed medication, stopped seeing certain doctors about my health, even putting my education on hold for the beastly cult. The erroneous claim of wanting to help people to get better is the furthest thing from the truth that this religion has done. I am not better and have experienced that none of the practices of this cult have made an attempt to make me better. The only thing I noticed is that they are great at taking a person's money to get funds that they need to keep afloat.

It all began with an OCA Personality test back in late 2012. I got called in to go over the results, and duped into buying a book, in which I read in two days, because I found it really interesting and wanted to know more. At the time, I didn't know that I was being groomed to join the cult. Looking back now, biggest mistake of my life. Now I am trying everything in my power to escape this cult. The cult is forbidding me to help my family, and it is very unfortunate that they are doing this. They are doing things that are absolutely against what they claim that they don't do. This is part of my story and I want to put a close to it.

Having them coercing me to abide by their rules, in which they prey upon my everyday struggles so I will comply, is not right. Even not letting me be the free spirit that I am, especially with my hair, is not a way to live. I miss having the confidence I once had and the freedom that the cult stole from me. I am now in tears of regret of getting involved with the cult.

I will be giving you insight through my journey with the cult and how difficult I am finding it to get out of that shadow. They now have me in their grip and do not want me to deal with my life, because I would be "out ethics," because I don't want to be there. Knowing what I know now about this extremist cult, I never again want to be associated with the cult. It is doing more harm than good, rather than more good than harm. If I don't get out of it soon, I may end up in my grave sooner than my parents. And I do not want that.

There is so much I want to share, that it would be difficult to contain in one post. I am just scratching the surface right now. I will be sharing more of my experiences very soon. Stay tuned.

I am paying a price that no one should be paying to be in a religion. It is humanly unethical to treat a human being the way that this cult is treating the people that walk through the doors.

This cult needs to be stopped immediately! There are too many individuals, families, and lives being destroyed by this cult and the more vocal people are and stand up for what they believe in to get out and away from this wayward so-called religion the better. No one should be living in the dark because they are told to live that way.

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Joy Ergang

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