“The Family” as a “Pyramidal Coercive Group”

I'd just like to start out by saying that by nature, I am not a conspiracy theorist. It's just by training and work experience that I tend to see patterns and to triangulate connections among persons and events in order to reach logical conclusions.Take a look at this blogger's take on "The Family" based on Jeff Sharlet's anthropological research (living among the crazies). Many folks in the various threads re "The Family" have had many questions to the effect of "I heard Barack Obama and John