Cults-1
Introduction
IN THIS SECTION Cults-1 - Introduction (here-see more below) Cults-2 Soka Gakkai
Cults-3 Subud
Cults-4 Hare Krishna
Cults-5a Other Religious Cults - Mormons, Adventists, Jehovah, Dominionism, Quiverfull, etc
Cults-5b Other Religious Cults, cont - Catholics - Catholic Sexual Abuse, Offshoots
Other Cults-6: Scientology, Monarch/MKULTRA
CULTS AND BRAINWASHING - Introduction (here)
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Summary of Links
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Cults
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Brainwashing
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Books
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Reports
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What Are Cults
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Start Here-Nazi Pedophile Apocalypse Cult
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An Ex-Mormon gives her input on what a cult is and offers some good advice
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Some Cult Tendencies
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Grooming Gangs
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Few if Anyone is Immune - Manipulating, Tricky
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Mind Control Techniques
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High Demand Closed Group
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Brainwashing
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Start Here
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Zersetzung
See also: Stasi
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BOOKS
Combating Cult Mind Control: The #1 Best-selling Guide to Protection, Rescue, and Recovery from Destructive
Cults Paperback – March 28, 2015 by Steven Hassan
Snapping: America's Epidemic of Sudden Personality Change, 2nd Edition by Flo Conway By Jim Sieg
Occult America: The Secret History of How Mysticism Shaped Our Nation, By Mitch Horowitz
Cults, Conspiracies, and Secret Societies: The Straight Scoop on Freemasons, The Illuminati, Skull and Bones, Black
Helicopters, The New World Order, and many, many more August 11, 2009
by Arthur Goldwag
Occult America: White House Seances, Ouija Circles, Masons, and the Secret Mystic History of Our Nation k –
October 5, 2010
by Mitch Horowitz
WHAT ARE CULTS
Start Here
Nazi Pedophile Apocalypse Cult
Youtube Video
Religious Abuse - Nazi Heritage (Post-WWII)
The Nazi Pedophile Apocalypse Cult. By Rare Earth. Youtube Video(2018/05/26)
https //www youtube com/watch?v=iKU6GBDHCGc&vl=en
An Ex-Mormon gives her input on what a cult is and offers some good advice
https //blog usejournal com/10-signs-youre-probably-in-a-cult-1921eb5a3857
SOME CULT TENDENCIES
Grooming Gangs
As a Rotherham grooming gang survivor, I want people to know about the religious extremism which
inspired my abusers
Grooming gangs are not like paedophile rings; instead, they operate almost exactly like terrorist networks,
with all the same strategies. Ella Hill Sunday 18 March 2018 11:30
https //www independent co uk/voices/rotherham-grooming-gang-sexual-abuse-muslim-islamist-racism-
white-girls-religious-extremism-a8261831.html
Few if Anyone is Immune - Manipulating, Tricky
Cult Watch dot com
How Cults Work
https //www cultwatch com/howcultswork html
Excerpt: Cults, wonderful on the outside, but are on the inside very manipulating. Cult leaders are
desperate to trick you into joining. They are after your obedience, your time and your money. Cults use
sophisticated mind control and recruitment techniques that have been refined over time.
Beware of thinking that you are immune from cult involvement, the cults have millions of members around
the world who once thought they were immune, and to this day still have not realized they are in a cult.
To spot a cult you need to know how they work and you need to understand the techniques they use.
Teaching you these things is what this article is all about.This article exposes the secret techniques cults will
use to try and trick and control you. Cult leaders will not want you to read this, but read it anyway. Once you
understandHow Cults Work you will be better able to spot and avoid cult recruiters, and protect your family
and friends.
First let’s eliminate some misconceptions about cults:
Cults are easy to spot, they wear strange clothes and live in communes.
Well some do. But most are everyday people like you and me. They live in houses. They wear the same
clothes. They eat the same food. Cult leaders don’t want you to know that you are being recruited into a cult
and so they order their recruiters to dress, talk and act in a way that will put you at ease. One cult has even
invented a phrase to describe this, they call it “being relatable”.
Cults are full of the weak, weird and emotionally unstable.
Not true. Many cult members are very intelligent, attractive and skilled. The reality is that all sorts of people
are involved in cults. One of the few common denominators is that they were often recruited at a low point
in their life — more about that later.
Cults are just a bunch of religious nut cases.
This is a common mistake people make thinking that cults are purely religious groups. The modern
definition of a mind control cult refers to all groups that use mind control and the devious recruiting
techniques that this article exposes. The belief system of a religion is often warped to become a container
for these techniques, but it is the techniques themselves that make it a cult. In a free society people can
believe what they want, but most people would agree that it is wrong for any one to try to trick and control
people. In the section “Types of Cults” we will examine the various types of cults you may come across.
https //www cultwatch com/howcultswork html
Mind Control Techniques
Church and State
2016/11/15 15 mind control techniques both churches and cults use. By Travis Haan | 2 September 2012
The Wise Sloth
http //churchandstate org uk/2016/11/15-mind-control-techniques-both-churches-and-cults-use/
Excerpt:
1. Mandatory, regular attendance: Mind control techniques and hypnosis don’t last forever. Perpetual
manipulation requires perpetual renewal. That’s why Coca~Cola won’t let you turn around without seeing a
Coca~Cola billboard. Of course, no cult could send their followers to basic training every single week for a
full re-indoctrination, but they don’t have to; all they need is one hour a week for refresher training.
2. Big, fancy, majestic buildings
A Catholic once told me that the reason Catholic churches are so majestic is because it helped illiterate
peasants understand the majesty of the Lord. Even if that were the intention (which I’m sure it wasn’t), the
reality is that churches are artistic masterpieces meticulously designed to overwhelm the senses and make
the viewer feel euphoric and humbled. Just standing in an empty cathedral can put you in a trance state.
If you’re surrounded by images of people who made bigger sacrifices than you to the in-group and were
justly rewarded then you’ll feel pressure to conform with their ideology without anyone having to say a word
to you. Also, you’re instinctively going to transfer your awe and respect for the building to the building’s
owner or spokesperson.
3. Hierarchical leadership: Every cult has a hierarchical leadership structure because the point of having a
cult is to have followers who will revere the leaders and give them all their money. Cult leaders get people to
follow them by claiming to be envoys of God. Every church does this.
Many churches won’t allow you to officially join until you undergo a ritual that symbolically changes you
from a member of the lost, miserable outsiders into a saved, superior member of the in-crowd. But you’ll
only be allowed to be a follower at the servile end of the pyramid shaped authority structure. The only way
to become a leader is to either start your own cult or work your way up the ranks. This stacks the ranks with
true believers who will defend the leader and give his social authority legitimacy.
4. Charismatic leaders
The biggest red flag you might be involved with a cult is if the organization revolves around a professional
charismatic leader. When you go to church you’ll sit down and listen to a charismatic marketer give a 45
minute infomercial. Even if everyone from the preacher to the congregation have the best intentions the
end result is the same. Poor people are swindled out of their money, and the charismatic leader gets to live
like a demigod surrounded by obedient followers.
5. Trance stimulation
When you enter your ornate church on Sunday morning, one of the first things that’s going to happen is
you’re going to sing hymns with the congregation. The majestic music, combined with the majestic
building and the thrill of performing an action in unison with other members of the in-crowd will work you
into a trance state that will make you susceptible to hypnosis. If you’re singing about being willfully
obedient then you’re just hypnotizing yourself, and you’re hypnotizing the people standing around you
listening to you sing about the virtue of willful obedience, servitude, sacrifice and faith. Even if that’s not the
intent, that’s the outcome. Even if you don’t know it’s happening, it’s happening. Even if everyone was
forewarned and knew it was happening it would still work on some of the participants.
6. Repetitive drills (and consequences for nonconformity)
In addition to singing, a good cult would require its victims to perform rote physical drills like marching,
dancing, kneeling or clapping. The moment you participate in a drill you’re being obedient. You didn’t just
kneel or march or clap. You followed an order without thinking about it, and the more you do that the more
likely you are to do it again. Eventually the charismatic leader won’t be asking you to do calisthenics. He’ll be
asking for money or a favor. What’s more interesting than that though. If you can get a group of people
used to following your orders and acting in unison you can eventually give the whole group an order, and
they’ll act in unison. That would give you the power to tell a group of people to go build a house or go burn a
house down.
7. Separating the believers (the in crowd) from the non believers
It’s common practice for cults to tell their recruits that the world can be divided into two kinds of people:
those who are inside the group and those who are outside the group. The people inside the group are
always saved and admirable. The people outside the group are always lost, unworthy and detestable.
If you believe this, then you’ll base your identity on your affiliation with the group, and you won’t want to
spend time with people whose clearer perception of reality could endanger your faith in the group.
8. The call to action is to entrench yourself in the group and base your life on its doctrine.
Church can be a lot of fun, and you can experience a lot of genuine moments of happiness with the people
you love, but the Sunday morning agenda always centers around the sermon. The point of the sermon is to
deliver a message, and the message is that you need to base your self-worth on your membership in the
group and demonstrate obedience to the group’s ideology. You’re told this will bring you closer to God.
Mostly it brings you closer to the group and the offering plate.
9. The charismatic leader manipulates your emotions: Charismatic leaders will try to mesmerize you with
the way they dress and talk. They guilt trip you. They make impossible promises and horrific threats. They
get the crowd worked up into a vulnerable, irrational frenzy right before they deliver an ultimatum.
10. You’re given an ultimatum: The point of every cult service is to build up to the moment where the
charismatic leader makes a call to action. The call for action is to either give money, take your commitment
to the cult to the next level, humiliate yourself or at least honor those who do. This is brazen manipulation,
and it works. Creepy cults leaders know that, and quaint suburban pastors know that.
11. You’re encouraged to humiliate yourself and mimic others: If a cult leader can convince his flock that he
has more spiritual authority than them and they are unworthy in the eyes of God, then his control over them
is almost guaranteed. Then the followers will have total trust in their leader when he tells them that the only
path to salvation is to do whatever the cult asks of them.
12. You’re asked for money, and your worth is tied to the amount of money you give: Most church leaders
don’t expect every member of the congregation to devote their lives to the church like a hard core cult.
Many preachers are happy if they can just get everyone to put money in the collection plate every week.
That’s as unethical as selling people fake lottery tickets. If anyone asks you for money … they probably just
want your money. If they demand money from you and threaten you and your family for not paying up, then
you can be even more sure they just want your money. If the person asking you for money is wearing a suit
that costs more money than what you’re wearing … then don’t give that person any more money.
13. Socializing with the in crowd: The most effective way to control the minds of a group of followers would
be to lock them in an isolated compound together where the charismatic leader could control every aspect
of their lives like the military does to its members. In suburbia that’s just not possible. So the trick is to keep
your in-group together as much as possible and get them to willfully ostracize themselves from the rest of
society as much as possible. I’m not saying that if you hang out with your bowling buddies when you’re not
bowling then that means you’re forming a cult. But when a charismatic leader organizes constant events
that keep his donors together … you can predict the outcome.
14. Using indoctrination techniques in your own time and policing your peers: The amount of Coca~Cola
advertisements you’ve seen in your life attests to how quickly the effects of manipulation can fade and thus
how important it is to constantly top-up your message in your victim’s short term memory. One way
television commercials do this is by getting a jingle stuck in your head. If you walk around all day repeating
the advertiser’s custom-designed message in your head then you’re doing the advertiser’s job of reminding
you of the message. Churches tell you to read the Bible constantly and to fill your house with Biblical
themed merchandise. If they can get you to eat, sleep and breath church doctrine then you’ll become your
own snake oil salesman. Then you’ll do the charismatic leader’s job of manipulating you for him.
15. Recruitment: Cults need a constant stream of new victims in order to finance the charismatic leader’s
lifestyle. So … if you run into an organization that is constantly having recruitment drives to get people to
come listen to an infomercial where they’re asked to give money at the end … don’t go there. You know
what’s going to happen, and it only ends well for the charismatic leader … assuming he doesn’t get too
drunk on power and do something crazy.
http //churchandstate org uk/2016/11/15-mind-control-techniques-both-churches-and-cults-use/
High Demand, Closed Group
Some names: Chris Butler, Tulsi Gabbard
[Note from PF: There are alternative views and rebuttals to the Tulsi Gabbard/Hare Krishnist view on the
internet.]
https //medium com/@lalitamann/an-insiders-perspective-on-tulsi-gabbard-and-her-guru-e2650f0d09
Excerpt: An Insiders Perspective on Tulsi Gabbard and her Guru
I was recently asked a question about US politics that is related to an issue very close to my heart. In the US
there is a state representative, Tulsi Gabbard, who is gaining attention and interest of the media and general
public. To most, this politician seems amiable, a war veteran who is attractive and articulate, who has had an
interesting life and seems very together. I get her appeal. But to me, I know the awful truth behind her
amicable facade. I grew up in what is now termed a High Demand, Closed Group. Most people know them
as cults, but personally I detest the term cult because it usually conjures images of Kool Aid and terrible TV
shows featuring Kevin Bacon. That’s not what I grew up in. Instead a High Demand Closed Group is a group
that has isolated itself from mainstream life and lives by the demanding and usually arbitrary rules set by
the leader of the group. The leader is usually a charasmatic personality who encourages their followers to
treat them as some sort of Messiah. The entire group dynamic is centred around gaining favour of the
leader, who uses this dynamic in a controlling and abusive manner. In many of these groups the leader uses
their position to manipulate their followers into performing sexual acts against their will, or in others, the
relationship becomes emotionally abusive, where the leader verbally or physically attacks their followers,
doling out increasingly severe punishments including sleep deprivation, starvation and physical self harm.
The latter is the type of group that I grew up in.
The group I was involved in is called The Science of Identity Foundation, and it was started by a man called
Chris Butler, who has variously been known as Siddhaswarupananda, Srila Prabhupada or Jagad Guru. His
“philosophy” is a mishmash of Buddism, Vaishnava Hinduism and Christianity. There’s around 1,000 or so
followers across Australia, New Zealand, Philippines and the US. Chris Butler himself was born in Hawaii and
from what I’ve been able to glean from my research, was a college drop out who started a small group in
the mid 60's. When the Hare Krishna movement started gaining traction in Hawaii during this time, he
found it difficult to find new followers and instead of competing with the Hare Krishna movement, decided
to take his current followers, along with a $20,000 donation, and join the Hare Krishna’s instead.
https //medium com/@lalitamann/an-insiders-perspective-on-tulsi-gabbard-and-her-guru-e2650f0d09
BRAINWASHING
Start Here
Everything Under The Moon dot net
The Battle for Your Mind: Christian Brainwashing
www everythingunderthemoon net/articles/christian-brainwashing htm
Excerpt:
CONVERSION is a "nice" word for brainwashing and any study of brainwashing has to begin with a study of
Christian revivalism in eighteenth century America. Apparently, Jonathan Edwards accidentally discovered
the techniques during a religious crusade in 1735 in Northampton, Massachusetts. By inducing guilt and
acute apprehension and by increasing the tension, the "sinners" attending his revival meetings would break
down and completely submit. Technically, what Edwards was doing was creating conditions that wipe the
brain slate clean so that the mind accepts new programming. The problem was that the new input was
negative. He would tell them, "You're a sinner! You're destined for hell!"
As a result, one person committed suicide and another attempted suicide. And the neighbors of the suicidal
converts related that they, too, were affected so deeply that, although they had found "eternal salvation,"
they were obsessed with a diabolical temptation to end their own lives.
Once a preacher, cult leader, manipulator or authority figure creates the brain phase to wipe the brain-slate
clean, his subjects are wide open. New input, in the form of suggestion, can be substituted for their previous
ideas. Because Edwards didn't turn his message positive until the end of the revival, many accepted the
negative suggestions and acted, or desired to act, upon them.
www everythingunderthemoon net/articles/christian-brainwashing htm
and:
Wikipedia dot org
Zerzetsung this is also seen in Stasi on this website
…the Stasi often used a method which was really diabolic. It was called Zersetzung, and it's described in
another guideline. The word is difficult to translate because it means originally "biodegradation." But
actually, it's a quite accurate description. The goal was to destroy secretly the self-confidence of people, for
example by damaging their reputation, by organizing failures in their work, and by destroying their
personal relationships. Considering this, East Germany was a very modern dictatorship. The Stasi didn't try
to arrest every dissident. It preferred to paralyze them, and it could do so because it had access to so much
personal information and to so many institutions.
—Hubertus Knabe, German historian [33]
Directive 1/76 lists the following as tried and tested forms of Zersetzung, among others:
a systematic degradation of reputation, image, and prestige on the basis of true, verifiable and
discrediting information together with untrue, credible, irrefutable, and thus also discrediting information;
a systematic engineering of social and professional failures to undermine the self-confidence of
individuals; ... engendering of doubts regarding future prospects; engendering of mistrust and mutual
suspicion within groups ...; interrupting respectively impeding the mutual relations within a group in space
or time ..., for example by ... assigning geographically distant workplaces.
— Directive No. 1/76 of January 1976 for the development of "operational procedures".[34]
https //en wikipedia org/wiki/Zersetzung
See also: Gaslighting
Everything Under the Moon
www everythingunderthemoon net/articles/christian-brainwashing htm
[Note from PF: This website shows magic spells and various symbols, very well might have a hidden
agenda. However, I think the writer makes some important points which can at least be a starting point
for other readings and investigations. It can be a way to encourage sales. It also can be an occult way of
saying: Here is the answer out of the maze - only to do something on an energy level that creates more
entrapment. ]
Excerpt: Brainwashing Techniques Being Used On The Public
Summary of Contents:
The Birth of Conversion The Three Brain Phases How Revivalist Preachers Work Voice Roll Technique
Six Conversion Techniques
Vow to keep agreements Physical and mental fatigue Increase the tension Uncertainty Jargon &
Vicious Language
No humor Stockholm Syndrome Decognition Process Alertness Reduction Programmed Confusion
Thought Stopping
True Believers & Mass Movements Persuasion Techniques Yes Set Truisms Suggestion Imbedded
Commands
Interspersal Technique Visualization Shock and Confusion Subliminal Programming: Mass Misuse
Vibrato
Extra Low Frequencies The Neurophone
www everythingunderthemoon net/articles/christian-brainwashing htm
Zersetzung
https //en wikipedia org/wiki/Zersetzung
Excerpt: Moreover, methods of Zersetzung included espionage, overt, hidden, and feigned; opening letters
and listening to telephone calls; encroachments on private property; manipulation of vehicles; and even
poisoning food and using false medications.[37] Certain collaborators of the Stasi tacitly took into account
the suicide of victims of Zersetzung.[38
https //en wikipedia org/wiki/Zersetzung
Updates: 2020/01/03 edits and additions; 2020/11/26 Brainwashing added to Cults section, Brainwashing moved from River Gold dot net; 2020/11/26 Page Cults on PF
started by moving it from River Gold dot net. Updates: Page Started on River Gold dot net 09/14/2018