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The cult that my daughter has got involved in actually seems very exclusive and not New Age at all: http://www.angelfire.com/folk/oeralinda/tex.htm For a start off, they believe that only women are capable of acheiving eternal life - and furthermore, only those women who renounce sex and...

The more I try and tell her not to join, the more she seems determined to. She says it's her right to choose. I have heard of those de-programmers as well, but wouldn't she just go back? She's not a stupid person and has obviously thought about this for a long time. It seems so insane. R.

I doubt if quoting the Bible at her would have any effect. She would only quote their own holy book back at me. R.

Do you really think it's that bad? Have they got the potential to do something really destructive like that? I don't know if they're anti-men, they just want nothing to do with them. They seem to believe that only women will have eternal life anyway, and then only by following the rules laid...

They remind me of something from the middle ages. R.

So they really are worshipping some sort of Norse goddess? R.

That's certainly an idea, though she can be a bit independent minded at times. R.

I know they have a commune somewhere but they keep its location secret. My daughter has been meeting with them and they've invited her to the commune, but she hasn't gone yet so perhaps there's still time to convince her it's a bad idea. Is Frey the same person as Frya? R.

I don't think they have a specific leader in that sense, or at least she has never mentioned one. So they're not like a cult in that way, but in other ways they certainly appear to be, with all those strict rules and regulations. I think the chances of me being allowed to attend a meeting are...

Something that brainwashes people, and gets them to do things they normally wouldn't, and takes them away from the real world. R.

It's called Oera Linda, and this is its website: http://www.angelfire.com/folk/oeralinda R.

It's all those rules and things that the group has that I find worrying, and makes me think it's a cult. R.

A lot of people have been saying that they're pagan, but does this mean that they're either less or more likely to be a cult? R.

It's possible, but maybe she'll want to stay with them. Maybe she'll never leave. R.

I'm pretty sure that at least part of it is the fact that it is so clearly female-oriented. She's always been a spiritual sort of person, so I suppose this group attracted her for those reasons. R.