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It’s not just satsang though I can relate to that too. It’s also broadly the experience of people who leave cults and apply the cult template to the outside world. In the years after I left, I became a Bradley teacher (as Premies will do, when Prem and Marolyn took Bradley classes and it was the favoured method of natural childbirth education in the cult). The “education” to be a teacher was a weekend seminar, book home study ( and not much and mostly very biased books) and a narrative test the Bradley (tm) folks signed you off on (and took your check). Guess what, your husband didn’t have to even do that he just had to be your husband to be a Certified Childbirth Educator! I am absolutely serious that was the standard. I was pretty into it but also vaguely disquieted. I think I saw the culty but didn’t realize how outside the norm this was. Later, I wanted to become a certified nurse-midwife. I recognized I wanted a university education the have the life and death responsibility being a midwife entails. First step was nursing school. I was a labor and delivery RN my whole career. Once I became a nurse, though I loved the nurse-midwives I worked with, I didn’t want to work all night and I enjoyed caring for all sorts of mothers, not just low-risk moms. I really loved my work. Lucky. I know many don’t get that in life. Anyway I too cringe at how little I knew and was “educating” other parents. I jumped through Bradley’s hoops. But I can assure you looking back I absolutely cringe at how low those hoops were. I didn’t do it long but still I cringe. And I am sure I will offend some, though some of it was good, much of it was more indoctrination in my opinion than education. Going back to school and working was the single best post cult therapy I ever did. It’s got some parallels to your story.
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