There's a saying in the cult awareness movement: no one ever joins a cult. People join a group of friendly people who seem to be doing interesting, important things, and only later find that they're in a cult. The way I like to put it is that saying there's something wrong with someone because they joined a cult is like saying there's something wrong with someone because they stepped in quicksand.
I definitely second the notion of some of the commenters that he shouldn't go back to that group -- for any reason.
Langston Hughes described a similar experience in this essay: http://www.spiritwatch.org/firelangsave.htm.
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