Creative Alchemy

Healing with Music During Cult Recovery

When Matthew Castle was 17 he took a small duffle bag and his violin and slipped out of a bedroom window of his family home. He was escaping a life in the high demand religion, the Institute of Basic Life Principles. Music had sustained him while he was growing up in IBLP and it would continue to do so once he was free and living an autonomous life.

In the introduction, I talk about how I could…