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August 4 - August 9, 2020
As you will see, the entire process begins and ends with you.
Truth is stronger than lies, and love is stronger than fear.
God created us with free will, and that no truly spiritual organization would ever use deception or mind control, or take away your freedom.
They crave the freedom to be themselves.
Why hadn’t I listened to them? Why hadn’t I trusted them?
Giving the keys to that knowledge is what this book is all about.
It is important to remember that, for the most part, people don’t join cults. Cults recruit people.
eight of those elements: milieu control, mystical manipulation or planned spontaneity, the demand for purity, the cult of confession, sacred science, loading of the language, doctrine over person, and dispensing of existence.
Mind control is much more subtle and sophisticated.
In basic terms, he was referring to the conflict that occurs when a thought, a feeling or a behavior is altered in contradiction to the other two.
Obedience to a leader’s command is the most important lesson to learn. A cult’s leaders cannot command someone’s inner thoughts, but they know that if they command behavior, hearts and minds will follow.
To think otherwise would be to obey Satan’s wish that evil Cain should prevail over righteous Abel.
The language helps to make members feel special, and separates them from the general public.
Members are taught to use thought-stopping on themselves. They are told it will help them grow, stay “pure and true” or be more effective.
Since the doctrine is perfect and the leader is perfect, any problem that crops up is assumed to be the fault of the individual member. They learn to always to blame themselves and simply work harder.
