The Man Who Saves You From Yourself Analysis

Meditation is my Cult

In some way or another we all take a path down a road we no longer want to follow. It’s normal to chase things in life that we thought we wanted and end up changing our minds on them. College students will change majors on a daily basis and sometimes even get a degree in a field that will have absolutely nothing to do with their career. We all have our ups and downs, but in order to keep more of the ups in our lives, we as people, sometimes will need something to attach to. Something that can help keep our minds at ease for our end goal or purpose in life. This could be a religion, video game, or even a cigarette. I, for one, use the practice of meditation to help myself get through day-to-day and keep away from the past

More particularly, he was trying to find cults that broke the rules of society. Throughout the story, Sullivan explores different types of cults and makes sure the reader does understand that not all of them are bad, but however the extreme ones can lead to bad morally driven cult leaders. He quotes, “Some leaders do make mistakes. They surround themselves with a small circle of sycophants and start to believe too much in their own powers.” Explaining that cult leaders will start something, and become deceived by their own influence, and even sometimes, convince themselves that they’re some kind of god or super power. He continues, “These are the ones who are most likely to take everyone down with them in a grand extension of their narcissism.” Showing that these cult leader’s influence can potential lead people down a road of following what these leaders want the people to do for them (Ganeshananthan, 190). Which in a lot of cases today, most religion’s leaders do this in some way or another, but they typically have some “higher power” above themselves to justify what they say. However, in Rich’s short story’s point of view, he is portraying the leaders that break the rules of society and try to satisfy some personal need to influence. A lot of the times, these things are intensely needed for some people. Even in Rich’s story, he rebroadcasts the conversation of Stella and Dr. Robinson showing some of the things that Dr. Robinson was doing were actually good things to help the girl from committing suicide, however, his end goal in mind was brutally evil. I think overall, there are times when these cults can bring things into peoples lives that can be a positive influence, however, there needs to be a set moral standard on