Unseen stories: the psychology of cults

Unseen stories: the psychology of cults

Everyday life for eight-year-old Dhyana Levey was not that unlike her peers. She went to school on the weekdays, played with other kids her age outside in downtown Santa Barbara, and read books with her parents at the kitchen table on the weekend.  To Levey, this life was normal. It was all she had ever known. But as she grew older, fractures in her story emerged.  When her schoolmates talked of going out to the movies, Levey failed to relate to…