"Even after joining the Soka Gakkai, they continued to try other remedies."

This is from James Allen Dator's 1969 book, "Soka Gakkai: Builders of the Third Civilization", which is a study of the Soka Gakkai based on interviews and statistics. Here's the rest of the passage, about the low-class "bar girl" Soka Gakkai members who haunted American military bases to profit off the GIs (and maybe even marry them):

The personal lives of these women were very unstable. Generally they had only a middle-school education or less. They came from low-income and broken families, and many had been married and divorced several times. Many had had abortions or illegitimate children; often they were prostitutes or were living with American servicemen. A high percentage were members of the Soka Gakkai.

Since the Soka Gakkai had its best success recruiting the dregs of society, this comes as no surprise that such women were Gakkai members.

They told us that they had tried one thing after another in an effort to find something that would alleviate their miseries and worries. Even after joining the Soka Gakkai, they continued to try other remedies. Their overwhelming interest in the Soka Gakkai was that it would cure them of their various illnesses and anxieties.

There are plenty of testimonies that chanting cures all one's problems, but I'm sure you've seen, as I have, that plenty of SGI members are not just dabbling, but deep into woo, despite the whole adamant "never mix practices" attitude of the SGI. I knew members, devout members, who were nonetheless into Rolfing. Reiki. Astrology! You name it, if it's woo, they're adding that to their supposedly all-providing practice. I'll put up some of those testimonials later today on this thread, but feel free to share your own experiences with members declaring that the Gohonzon will provide absolutely anything and everything a person could possibly need to attain "a diamond-like state of indestructible happiness"!