I'll go so far as to say that the groups of people who gather around a lot of things in the human potential field are very cultish.
NLP has felt very cultish to me.
The Qi Gong thing seems cultish. As do the people who are fans of Centerpointe and the Higher Balance Institute.
Some don't want to use the word religion, but that's what these things are to people. They are religions without the label of religion.
Each set of people is marked by a certain inflexibility in thinking and behavior around their chosen system of belief. They accept dogmatic tenants and can be made to believe, say, and do really stupid things once they're hooked.
Some people are just True Believer types, and these arguments can easily degrade into my guru can beat up your guru.
The guru is usually full of crap anyway, just a repository for the fantasies projected by the follower....
It's all just a bunch of nonsense.
