Manipulators often exploit the emotional vulnerability, stress, and anxiety experienced by adolescents and marginalized individuals by using the context of intense religious or mystical experiences to present a surrogate supernatural parent.

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  The Evolution of Transcendence | Evolutionary Psychological Science

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• religious experience concept