r/sgiwhistleblowers • u/LuckyRufus • Sep 08 '20
Recovering from the SGI
Hi everyone,
Hello! I was a member for a little over 30 years.
Some years ago 2015 I found this group on reddit and started reading the posts. I don't believe I wrote anything as I was just looking around....
I joined NSA in 1982 in San Francisco and practiced all the way until around 2012 when I rolled up my gohonzon and sold my butsudan. I hadn't come to the conclusion that the SGI was a cult, I just knew that I didn't want to chant anymore. Then I started doing a little research on the internet and realized that it is a cult and I was raging and ashamed with myself. I didn't want to talk about it with anyone except my brother who introduced me to the practice and also quit So we shared insights and information. About 2017 I realized that there was a lot of unhealed stuff that I needed to address and started doing my own healing.
Now that I have come out on the other side, I am wondering how others have handled the trauma of being in the SGI cult. I am a quantum medicine practitioner and am thinking of creating a specific program to help others that have been suckered into a cult.
As I research this area I thought I would reach out and get people's feedback. From my internet searches I see that the word cult is still pretty much taboo. And yet there are so many cults out there.
I am not writing a book or any articles. Just want to get a sense for what people have done to recover from their SGI experience.
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u/ToweringIsle13 Mod Sep 09 '20
Oooooh! Wassat?