Bobby Lee asserts that the Heaven's Gate group required its members to be castrated to achieve spiritual freedom.

“they also frustrated themselves it's good to see you much castrated themselves do you have the role of quarters they all castrated themselves yeah yeah so they all cut off their genital they cut what do they call that that's castrated they're they're nut sack that's castrated yeah when you cut off y”

Andrew Santino claims that cults typically recruit people who are experiencing significant personal trauma or crossroads in their lives.

“well usually cults get people when trauma yeah when somebody is in a crossroads in their life like for instance like my girl i've caught my girlfriend cheating on me right and she just broke up with me right and then the next day and then you pray no this is real they pray like to god or whatever li”