I’m just filling the void with mental and social junk food
I’d say it’s a safe assumption that Option 1 is not viable for most of the people who go with Option 2.
If Anton Levay can start a weird sex cult anyone can do it. Times of plague, economic precarity, and political and social upheaval are the best time to form an exploitative sex cult that promises to reveal the higher mysteries through orgiastic rituals and drug induced ecstatic visions.
If Anton Levay can start a weird sex cult anyone can do it
He was working in San Francisco in the 1960’s; that’s the easiest time & place in history to make a sex cult.
Times of plague, economic precarity, and political and social upheaval are the best time to form an exploitative sex cult that promises to reveal the higher mysteries through orgiastic rituals and drug induced ecstatic visions.
That is only true if you have the money to make your own compound & make it be materially sustainable.