My nephew was involved with a cult called The Family back in the 1990s. Can't say if it was the same lot, but they were his reaction to early teen homosexuality via a f***-up of a home life. Tried to explain, but being far too reasonable lost the argument. He's more-or-less stable now as a lowly accountant's assistant, a total waste of someone with his promise, but I can't say whether the mental illness that he went through was a result of the involvement with a load of manipulating, uncaring substitutes for human beings.