I am beginning to go through some of the books and tracts we found in my mother's flat after she died. I have just been reading through "The Bridegroom Cometh" and observing with some amusement how my mind finds the familiar words almost hypnotic and I feel my mind going back to those times when such words floated over my head like a wave. Words that once held me in their power. I can almost sense my neurones firing happily away reading something so familiar - the familiar phrases and exhortations. Fortunately for me my cortex is overriding this almost primitive response. It reminds of me Lifton and his 8 factors of thought reform. For those who don't know about these, one of them is called Loading the Language. The group interprets or uses words and phrases in new ways so that often the outside world does not understand. This jargon consists of thought-terminating clichés, which serve to alter members' thought processes to conform to the group's way of thinking. (from wikipedia) Such a strange sensation after all these years - somewhere deep inside of me, I remember. Anyone else recognise this phenomena and how do you deal with it. There was a time when this "magic" would have continued to bewitch me - but no longer