I'd suggest you slowly start reading widely, not only about literature that would talk about cults but stuff that will rebuild foundations of your inner being. I guess my question is, other than cult experience, what else interests you? It is not really healthy to be completely consumed with state of mind that dwells constantly on the past (as important as it is to be informed, you don't want to be inundated). It is like anything in life, if someone hurt you and you spent rest of your life thinking about it, it is like giving them a free rent on your mind, why would anyone want to do that?
Truthfully, I can tell you from my own experience that healing process for me started when I got passed innitial stage, left wtbs and my life there behind and just got on with my life. WTBS past now is, well a very distant memory. I can read about it now the same way I'm reading newspaper about what happens in say Middle East, disggusted, amused, intrigued but it doesn't run my life.
Which book do you recommend for my next reading?
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zagor
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Black Sheep
Beautiful Losers and/or The Favourite Game by Leonard Cohen: for fun and liberation
Cat's cradle by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. for insight into cults and because I loved it.
Anything by Edward de Bono, especially if you still have children at home.
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quietlyleaving
The Sins of Scripture by John Shelby Spong - fantastic eye opener
In the history of the Western World, the Bible has been a perpetual source of inspiration and guidance for countless Christians. However, this Bible has also left a trail of pain. It is undeniable that the Bible is not always used for good. Sometimes the Bible can seem overtly evil. Sometimes its texts are terrible. Bishop John Shelby Spong boldly approaches those texts that have been used through history to justify the denigration or persecution of others while carrying with them the implied and imposed authority of the claim that they were the "Word of God." As he exposes and challenges what he calls the "terrible texts of the Bible," laying bare the evil done by these texts in the name of God, he also seeks to redeem these texts, hoping to recover their ultimate depth and purpose. Spong looks specifically at texts used to justify homophobia, anti-Semitism, treating women as second-class humans, corporal punishment, and environmental degradation, but he also delivers a new picture of how Christians can use the Bible today.
As Spong battles against the way the Bible has been used throughout history, he provides a new framework, introducing people to a proper way to engage this holy book of the Judeo-Christian tradition.