The author is grateful for Shlomit Yadlin-Gadot’s and Sandra Buechler’s empathetic recognition of the shame that torments cult survivors. Both note the tendency toward othering that these patients face, both externally and internally. In response to Yadlin-Gadot’s understanding of the survivor’s need for help to mourn, the author further elaborates the cult leader’s delusion of omnipotence, which offers the false promise of transcendence, denying mortality and bypassing the need for mourning. The author also appreciates Buechler’s struggles to question her own authority and influence, while remaining aware of and opposed to the cult leader’s (the traumatizing narcissist’s) abuse. The author considers as essential to the survivor’s healing both Buechler’s focus on the survivor’s emancipation from the grip of the abuser, and Yadlin-Gadot’s recognition of the need for mourning.