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When your closest friend joins a spiritual group that worries you

My best friend and I have been spiritual seekers together for fifteen years, but lately she's gotten into something that feels cultish to me and I'm watching her disappear into it. When I try to express concern, she says I'm not supporting her journey, and I don't know how to love her without enabling what scares me.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The sacred bond of spiritual companionship fractures when one friend's path leads toward what the other perceives as spiritual danger.

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