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What should anyone seeking initiation in a Lifestyle Group be aware of?

What red flags should they watch for?

What criteria makes a collective " better" then another.

What things are not necessarily " bad" but unappealing to most.

How do you receive a person intersted in your perspective collective, or Group?

What do you mean by Lifestyle Group?

Everyone here knows what I mean.

I seem to always get this question every time I say Collective, and or Group.

It really makes me curious as to how people get so engaged in semantics.

Collectives, Groups, Cliques..
Lifestyle Groups.

Anybody that gets together for a common shared purpose.

hmm could just be me but i thought it was pretty clear.......

Why ask? What is meant by Lifestyle Group?

Lifestyle groups are just another collective type.

I have posted references to lifestyle groups, and others post responses as if they had been offended by the mention of such a phrase.

The theme if this site pretty much preceeds this thread.

The very content of the site.

Any collective, related to the sites theme.

I would include covens, collectives, groups.

I read journals that rant about the abuse people get after joining certain covens here. As well as off site.

I left it general to allow responses to the spectrum.

Clique abuse included.

Anyone can say.." We are Vampi(y)res" and say hey you want to join our group?

What should one consider before engaging with commitment to such professed, or established Collectives, Wether they be Occult based, Vampire, Vampyre. Lifestyle. Goth.. Sci-fine, power punk.. ect.

What should a group or collective ( online, or off) avoid when it cones to potential initiates?

What filter should be considered?

What would you say of groups, or such that extend beyond virtual.

As far as covens here go, I have read journals that demonstrate mental abuse by coven mates, and coven masters, that escalate into off line situations.

The common denominator in those cases being that had the person researched before progressing to an off line commitment, they would have read any number of revealing information regarding the individuals pattern if abuse.

The ones with more potential for being problematic are the ones that claim affiliation with established collectives ( Vampi(y)re related.

I have seen Wiccian collectives ( note I did not say coven, a collective is made up of networking covens) turn bitter because of scketchy individuals using references to gain access to collective gatherings.

For those that are involved in Vampi(y)re collectives ( lifestyle or otherwise) how does ( if at all) a person representing that group disclose initiation?

Claiming to be affiliated with some esoteric collective works as bait for certain I individuals on this site.

No one challenges their professed affiliation.

Such people conduct slander brigades on anyone who becomes disenchanted with their behaviour. Even if such individuals deny the alligations against them, it should become evident by the number of cases of behavior cited against the person.

Yet the desperation people feel to belong over rides instinct.

Usery is often common in such sketchy groups, and they lack any commity, or " chain of command".

Once such I individuals take it to the next level though ( off line commitment) that behaviour has a potential to turn into actually present abuse.

So here, I am offering a proactive.. preemptive approach, rather then restating in the hindsight about aftermath..

This is a what should have indicated earlier that what a person got involved in was too good to be true.