Forager Field Notes

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Hello, fellow cult kid

Hello, fellow cult kid

a conversation with Mikel Jollett

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Michelle Dowd
Feb 14, 2025
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What you seek is seeking you.
~ Rumi

"The cult wasn’t the worst of it," Mikel said to me at lunch the other day. "It was worse after."

I nod, knowing exactly what he means. The loneliness is worse on the outside. No one tells you it’s going to be like that.

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