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Having been a member for 20+ years of SGI, I can tell you that the rhetoric they use to defend the mind bending principles of their "buddhism" such as working for "world peace", the importance of the mentor- disciple relationship (devotion to Ikeda) to personal happiness and protecting the "unity" of members in the organization screams cult. There is no room for internal criticism of leadership either here or in Japan, and the individual is deemed as poisonous if they manage to use their minds when analyzing the validity of their faith or activities. After much time, I have become aware and have been able to scrub the poison of such mind controlling ideas that I was soaked in as a member of SGI. This mind control used in SGI may be evident in other groups as well, but it has become such a cult of Ikeda worship that it is even scarier than when I first joined.