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Not in a "I want to join one" kind of way, but I always go through phases where I am baffled and terrified by cults. Like in the past few days I've been googling a bunch of them and I just can't believe things like that exist in this present day. I'll watch endless documentaries on them and searching for them on the internet.
I think cults are laughable. But, I'm biased here. I am only comfortable accepting a cold indifferent universe, and even change advertising I hear in my mind to assert my own structured thoughts to myself. None the less, cults are quite damaging, so I found this link.
https://www.onlinepsychologydegree.info/what-to-know-about-the-psychology-of-cults/
I'm also interested in cults, but definitely not in joining one: in fact on two occasions way back I belonged to groups which began to seem cultish to me and I left them.
I'm interested in trying to work out how some intelligent people seem to turn off their brains and fall for obviously fake leaders and philosophies.
Discouragement of questioning leaders, unspoken "rules" and a general attitude that anyone who questioned anything had something wrong with her. In one case, in a group of less than a dozen, the leader formed an elite group around herself, who had to agree to do her bidding at any time on short notice. I refused to join the elite group and meetings were almost immediately re-scheduled to times I couldn't attend because of work commitments.
Well no, I have worked in offices, but these groups were based respectively in a supposedly radical counselling/personal growth structure and a modified Native American tradition.
There's a huge difference in having to subject oneself to a hierarchical employment structure in order to survive financially and the groups I've described.