Alpay: "CULTS AND MENTAL MANIPULATION - “He Who Has Attained the Goal”": CULTS AND MENTAL MANIPULATION - “He Who Has Attained the Goal” A cult may be more - or less - highly developed; it is a group gathered around a leader or an ideology, religious or non-religious. It functions according to a secret method that is closed to outsiders, but the free will and the identity of the follower is left intact. Coercive cults, which we will call “CC’s” for convenience, are more constraining and result in a loss of freedom on the part of followers. The boundary between the two is elusive, since the survival of any cult depends on strict discipline; the evolution toward coercion is ineluctable. And the key tool of coercion is mind control, on which cults have no monopoly: marketing and politics, for example, are rife with examples of mental manipulation. Furthermore, within normal religious or political movements, truly coercive organizations may exist that deserve the label of “cult.”

A cult may be more - or less - highly developed; it is a group gathered around a leader or an ideology, religious or non-religious. It functions according to a secret method that is closed to outsiders, but the free will and the identity of the follower is left intact. Coercive cults, which we will call “CC’s” for convenience, are more constraining and result in a loss of freedom on the part of followers. The boundary between the two is elusive, since the survival of any cult depends on strict discipline; the evolution toward coercion is ineluctable. And the key tool of coercion is mind control, on which cults have no monopoly: marketing and politics, for example, are rife with examples of mental manipulation. Furthermore, within normal religious or political movements, truly coercive organizations may exist that deserve the label of “cult.”

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