Sorry if this long.
We have been separated for over 10 years and share a teenage daughter. He’s a disgrace of a father and has had very little to do with DD for many years, sees her a few times a year, doesn’t pay maintenance etc despite all this DD adores him.
He started living an ‘alternative lifestyle’ a few years ago. He decided he wanted to live off grid and not be part of the capitalist system. I don’t entirely know what this entailed but from a far it seemed to involve being unemployed, sponging off his family and girlfriend and not washing very often.
Over the past 12-18 months this has escalated, he decided to become a practising ‘witch’ and started believing some peculiar things. It didn’t really worry me as it seemed to involve a lot of meditation and being kind to people and the planet so each to their own and it’s not harming anyone. Other than maybe DD because his communities and training seemed to occupy him so much he saw even less of her.
Heard not a peep from him over last Xmas, he didn’t send so much as a message over her birthday.
Then after lockdown lifted he started showing a renewed interest in seeing her. Still not a lot or regularly, he’s seen her about 5 times since then but for him that’s a lot.
Since then he has been imparting his ‘wisdom’ on DD with his, I’ll try to be nice, non mainstream views. DD has started getting into witchcraft and tarot cards etc off the back of this. I’ve again let it largely go by the by as experimenting.
Since she last saw him though she’s been going on about ‘the great awakening’ and preparing for this. I presumed it was something to do with the witchcraft as it coincides with the winter solstice.
But I’ve done a bit of digging and it isn’t. It’s actually an end of the world conspiracy. Ex believes there will be an enlightenment and that those who believe and have the prepared for the awakening will ascend to a higher consciousness. His preparations have included something that involves looking inside yourself and he believes it has caused him to uncover dark memories from his childhood which have caused him to have a mental breakdown. But is going ahead with his preparations. He believes he is a star being descended from Nordic aliens or something.
I’m getting really concerned he’s clearly not in his right mind, he’s been sending long rambly barely comprehensible messages to DD but she’s absorbing it all and believes a lot of it. I’m concerned this ‘ascension’ could involve something extreme or damaging. It’s almost like a cult and regardless of what I do or don’t believe in I’m very concerned about DD getting sucked into this stuff. I don’t like it, I’ve got a sick feeling in my stomach when I read some of the stuff he’s been sending her.
I just want to know what others might do in my shoes?
My gut tells me to keep her well away from him and cut the contact out.