I think there is more going in here than a lot of us are aware of.

Little Hawk, if you do indeed know the person in question, and if you are intimating that the problem lies possibly more with the person who began this thread and his inablity to accept change happening to a friend...then I wish you'd make that clear.

Raptor, I am getting that you feel very hurt over this, and betrayed. But to feel these things towards someone you like, or liked, is quite different than thinking that he has been badly influenced by a "cult".

Cults of all kinds can indeed be dangerous, and I'm not defending what I know can be very difficult situations with friends and family...but I'm feeling from your last post, and from the one Little Hawk wrote, that this isn't really the case. The guy has disappointed you personally more than your concern that he is being controlled by this unnamed spiritual group. You've offered little in the way of facts about it, and again, though I understand your feelings of having lost a friend, please try not to make this into something it may well not be.

..xx..e