Thanks Renee. Spot on. I worry about Cindy's parents because they simply can not grasp the situation for what it is, and that's so true in the general population too, I believe. I divorced Cindy's older brother after 30 years of marriage. He became involved in luciferianism and mind control. I had gotten him psychological help and he was diagnosed with antisocial/borderline/narcissist personality disorder. He felt he WAS superior to the general population so he rejected the diagnosis and further therapy. His astral plane involvent simply reinforced his need to be special, called, superior, entitled and above the law. He felt transcendent so to speak. He believed he could do no wrong. He believed his level was (more) enlightened, therefore misunderstood, at our lower (collective) level. We were too inferior to see his truth. He came very close to being a split personality. He believed the end justified the means and that if he killed anyone, it would be for the greater good. He needed his online "groupies" (his term) to mirror these ego based fantasies. He told me he wasn't lying IF others believed what he told them. His words then, magically, became the truth. I lived his cult of one, up close and personal. Words were toys to him. Conscience was gone. And he truly believed his words held alchemical power, proven to him, by anyone who believed him and acted upon these desires. He believed that he was upholding THEIR free will, by manipulating them to WANT to act on his behalf. He hadn't broken that universal law in that case. He was always innocent in his own eyes. Those he manipulated, he claimed, WANTED to be. He saw himself as a type of god. He hated the God of the bible. He told me that if you "wait for THAT God to act, you'll wait forever." So he actively pursued astral entities and could read minds, etc. (That was bothersome as he read mine and I made it impossibly difficult) He sought self promotion through astral/spiritual pursuit. And told me I was blocking his efforts and had to go. Apparently my God and his gods did not play nice together. He wanted to kill me, he also wanted to kill himself, and finally he wanted us to swear to some suicide pact. I had to get a court order to remove him, in order to divorce without further danger to myself, or him. His views of good and evil, as one force, made him feel entitled to use either interchangeably. They were a compatible/symbiotic (single) force to him. Either was useful and desirable. And there were no consequences to using either side of this "sword," to his way of thinking. Consequences were only real on this lower plane. He viewed this lower plane as useful to him, but never did he see himself as accountable to it. He could freely use people, without empathy or regret. He had at one time told me, that I'd be DISHONEST toward him, if he'd used me up and I didn't let him know, so he could find another. He was far from joking. After divorcing him, I spent years studying this, to try to wrap my head around this psycho-spiritual whirlwind I'd lived through. I now grasp it. But it still boggles my mind that people can (or want) to give themselves over to it. But they can and do. His was a self aggrandizing and passing that off as some kind of a self love guru. Free will is twisted by them, because conscience and empathy are gone, though feigned. Without good (will) conscience, real love has no foundation on which to build. Therefore, they typically claim to live above this lesser plane, in an ethereal realm of love, as the ONLY fully (self) realized form of love. Their ideas of utopian perfection are Hitleresque. They see us as the problem and themselves as the solution. You are either with them or against them. They are charismatic, theatrical, artistic and seductive. Sadly, Hitler is viewed as crazy along with Charles Manson, in this country. This is only half true. My exhusband knew what he was doing, why he was doing it, and what his end game was to be. That is not crazy. People prefer to think crazy rather than deal with what is truly happening. Education would be helpful. These types prey upon naivete and our trust in basic human goodness. Meaning. My ex used my conscience against me as a weapon. I figured that out on my own. I've been psychologically tested and am balanced/normal. The therapists working with us both told me I'm certainly not codependent and he wondered how I made it. He said codependent types are much "happier," so to speak, in such marriages. I told them it was my choice in God, because the God I know stresses conscience and logic. Blind faith is prohibited to me. So I was able to keep my bearings, while trying to get help for my husband and our marriage. I had to give up. There was no choice left. I now help others get away from such relationships. Whether it be relationships with one person or an entire group. I meet hurting people all the time and they respond to help quickly, if ready. These victims do not have to take an eternity getting their lives turned back around. I help them get out of that mind-fuck (as my ex referred to it) very quickly. I'll end by saying one more thing, that is also revealing. My ex gave me a (backhanded) compliment as we split. He said. "I'm going to miss you because you are the ONLY one who can see through my shit." He also said I was "the only one he ALLOWED to ever tell him the truth." We can call these types crazy if that makes us feel safer. But they know exactly what they are doing. They are clever and many steps ahead of their victims. They believe they are entitled to control us, for "our" own good. But. They (alone) will be ruling from the top of their pyramid scheme, sharing that spot with no other. That fact becomes quite clear early on, if red flags are heeded. Again, thank you for this thread. Cindy's brother will be on this soon. I feel free to speak about my ex husband, their older brother. I feel better if her younger brother gives you her history. And right now, it's their parents we are worried about. This goes way over their heads. But her sudden disappearance and (what appears to be her illegal involvements) give them cause to fear. If anyone does know anything that can help, her brother will give them that info asap. And yes, I believe parents can contact authorities and get some attention. I'm promoting that idea to her brother as well.