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Cults are usually imagined as loud, dramatic affairs involving chanting, isolation, and questionable fashion choices. Grave-Cults: Love, Loyalty, and Control advances a less theatrical but more unsettling theory: cultic structure is not rare or fringe, but woven into everyday life. Families, friendships, marriages, workplaces, professional organizations, and government roles all operate through shared beliefs, rituals, and expectations of loyalty. Oaths, contracts, traditions, and unspoken rules quietly organize belonging. A signature, a promise, or the understanding that obedience keeps the peace is usually enough. No robes are required. Drawing a direct line between cults and culture, Aurora Mizutani argues that micro-cults form wherever power concentrates and dissent is punished. These systems reward compliance, frame questioning as disloyalty, and treat exit as betrayal, often while insisting they act ""out of love"" or ""for your own good."" Written in clear, journalistic prose with a touch of levity to soften the blow, Grave-Cults gives language to experiences many people recognize but rarely name. It explains how control hides behind tradition, why silence is mistaken for harmony, and why the moment someone stops obeying is often the moment the system reveals itself. Because when belonging disappears the instant you disagree, what you were part of was never just a relationship. It was a cult.

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Aurora Mizutani, born Dupelola Osaretin Ajala, is the daughter of the renowned journalist and actor Olabisi Ajala. An Italian national, Aurora Mizutani is the author of ""An African Abroad"", ""21st Century Guide to being a tourist in Japan"", ""Dummies in Japan"", ""Giappone Turismo"", ""Easy Japan"", and ""Little Boy and Mr Scary Snake"", written under her previous pen name DA Gravill. Aurora Mizutani, an English Literature and Creative Writing graduate of the London Metropolitan University attended Kansai Gaidai University in Osaka, Japan. Writer, publisher, comedian, YouTuber, poet, mentor, teacher, professor, lecturer, educator, theologian, philosopher, and entrepreneur, Aurora Mizutani is the daughter of the renowned journalist and actor Olabisi Ajala. An Italian national, Aurora Mizutani is the author of ""An African Abroad"", ""21st Century Guide to being a tourist in Japan"", ""Dummies in Japan"", ""Giappone Turismo"", ""Easy Japan"", and ""Little Boy and Mr Scary Snake"", written under her previous pen name DA Gravill. Aurora Mizutani, an English Literature and Creative Writing graduate of the London Metropolitan University attended Kansai Gaidai University in Osaka, Japan. Fascinated with books about historical practice, elite power, art, political smokescreens, faith, philosophical dogma and the pursuit of endless knowledge, Aurora Mizutani's narrative directly relates to the human experience. Writer, publisher, comedian, YouTuber, poet, mentor, teacher, professor, lecturer, educator, theologian, philosopher, and entrepreneur, as Student Union President at City & Islington College, Aurora Mizutani was introduced to Her Royal Majesty Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip Duke of Edinburgh. AT THE TIME, Arora Mizutani also met Boris Johnson, Mayor of London, and collaborated with British politician Jeremy Corbyn on several college enterprises. Arora Mizutani currently resides in Japan with her Japanese husband

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