Lavender posts, "As I get older, I appreciate this moroe than the LA LA Land.. of spiritually CORRECT talk... and mean while, the knife in the back under their breath."

Exactly.

David has said to me in private talks and he's posted on this forum, too, about how the poison of RSE can be carried forward into our lives if we don't clean it out, especially after we've left the cult-school.

I think he's right about that. Perhaps the strawberry in the mud with all of this, is that we all have the choice of looking at ourselves, and seeing the good/bad, the weak/strong, and polishing ourselves to get past the rough edges and shine. In other words, be balanced. I understand that it is said that this can take many years, and imo that's true whether we've been in a cult or not. Some people just never grow up, whether they're 30 or 80. Others spend years wanting to be a better person and the polishing goes on.