"There was nothing special about our time with Andrew. We've been members in just another cultish group that make its members feel special. Our experiences are fundamentally no different from countless others in spiritual and political groups. We see clearly that corruption is difficult to avoid when a charismatic individual is given absolute power over a group of followers. All authoritarian groups have more or less the same dynamic. The emphasis on surrender, the initial happiness of merging into something bigger, the dogmatism, the rules and regulations, the suppression of doubts, it's the same everywhere."
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Andrew Cohen (spiritual teacher)
Andrew Cohen (October 23, 1955 – March 25, 2025) was an American controversial self-declared spiritual teacher, who was accused by former students, including his mother, of mental, physical, and financial abuse.
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