There comes a time in the life cycle of every cult when things become so insane that, one way or another, the whole operation falls apart. It wasn’t too long ago, for example, that a cult called “CUT” convinced tens of thousands of people to hide in fallout shelters in Montana. The point was to save themselves from nuclear apocalypse. But the apocalypse never came, so eventually the cultists left the bunkers and gave up on the whole idea. This was in the ’90s, if you can believe it.
A few decades before that, the same thing happened with “The Seekers” in Michigan. Back in the ’50s, The Seekers thought they’d get swept up by aliens in UFOs and taken to some faraway planet. Admittedly, it’s not the most unreasonable belief. That one I might have actually joined. But eventually, when they picked specific dates for the aliens’ arrival, and they never came, even the diehard Seekers gave up and disbanded. Some dreams die hard.
.png)
.png)
