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Recovering from a destructive group
Defend the Sacred:
Thank you for that, Epiphany.
Epiphany:
Cults in our Midst, a great page on leaving a cult http://www.culteducation.com/reference/recovery/recovery1.html
The Rick Ross cult information site has changed to another url, they are now at http://www.culteducation.com/. So some links I've used here pointing to their work are now broken. Also when they moved they lost some material, but things are being reconstructed as they are able. http://www.culteducation.com/help.html
Epiphany:
A great video to help understand how cults work: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zxJyfqeaKU8
Many of the frauds we research here use all these techniques.
Autumn:
--- Quote from: Piff on November 07, 2013, 08:39:17 pm ---A great video to help understand how cults work: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zxJyfqeaKU8
Many of the frauds we research here use all these techniques.
--- End quote ---
Thanks, Piff. That is a great video. It looks like it was copied quite a lot or is very old since it is so grainy but the information is invaluable.
It is so frightening to think that cults are like an onion, with the most benign parts on the outer edges, and the most destructive in the inner core. And they rope people in with front groups such as a Bible study group, a meditation group, a peace group, a management course, or a self-development course, etc. It seems as if we are all susceptible and we must always be on our guard. One man who was involved with a cult for 15 years said that two things are invaluable to cults: repetition and vulnerability. So those people who are especially emotionally fragile due to some traumatic life event are especially susceptible and then the cults start on the repetition to reel them in.
As you said, we have seen this over and over in the groups that we investigate here and it is so sad.
Otter3:
Here's an excellent book: Take Back Your Life; recovering from Cults and Abusive Relationships by Janja Lalich and Madeleine Tobias, published by Bay Tree Publishing, Berkeley, CA. 2006. This is an expanded version of Captive Hearts, Captive Minds published in 1994.
Some of the sections are: Defining a cult; recruitment, the cult leader, families and children in cults, the healing process, dealing with the aftereffects, and much more. This book answers the anguished questions ex-cult members ask themselves, "How could I have joined a cult? Why didn't I see what was going on?"
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