Sometimes the question pops up, "Was there anything good about being in the cult." Up until now, the best answers I could come up with is that I ended up in Chicago and I learned how to cook some good vegetarian meals.
But it is ironic and interesting to imagine that the process of leaving is something unique and even profound in some ways. For a lot of us, there was a specific thing in our background that paved the way for us to join in the first place. Going there and then breaking free again does something to us and I would like to think we are all better for it. We do really understand liberation in a way that we might otherwise have not.
