A QUESTION OF BALANCE:
Health and Pathology in New Religious Movements
by Frances Vaughan, Ph.D.

I’ve put the full title here as fair warning to the length and the scholarliness of this article. It is a levelheaded look at what we need to be aware in looking for a group to be a member of, if that is our desire.

Here are a few quotes from the above article:

…the failure of orthodox religious practices to provide genuine experiences of transcendence have created a climate of spiritual deprivation and an intensified search for transcendental answers.

But spiritual seekers are not necessarily healthy self-actualizers.