PATHOLOGIES INDUCED BY CULT MANIPULATION - Chronic or Acute Permanent Stress
Although it merges with anxiety, the state of chronic stress is directly dependent on how aggressively the cult marked the subject in body and spirit. Therefore, it is deeper and more durable. The fear of retaliation from an aggressive cult persists until the subject is asleep, where it returns in the form of repetitive dreams.
Next comes a
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PHYSICAL CONDITIONING - The Body
Sexuality is another mode of intra-cult expression, whether between cult members or the cult member and the guru, representing a will to intrude even within the body. Sex is an ideal means of breaking in, an obvious sign of the sect’s domination. The principles set up by AAO and Kommune speak much of this transgression of individual taboos:
1. Free sexuality, dissolving relationships between couples;
2. Collective ownership, abolishing private property;
3. Close-cropped hair, abandoning hairstyles common to “the little family” [the external world];
4. No personal clothing, overalls for all;
5. No sexual relations outside of AAO;
6. No external socializing with groups (bars, restaurants, cinemas);
7. Communication is limited to the sect;
8. No exchanges with the outside world, no visits to the outside
world or with people from the outside world;
9. The practice of SD within the group, higher than that of any other communication, makes any other type of exchange useless;
10. No individual rooms;
11. The outside world is regarded as evil;
12. The group is structured hierarchically according to the level of the cult member’s consciousness [level of involvement];
13. Work is conducted under the control of a chief of communications. [13]
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13. Nouvelles de la Kommune, no 1, 1976.
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PHYSICAL CONDITIONING - The Body
Having adopted the dress code, the cult member is naturally led to accept other rules of personal appearance. One cult will preach that hair must be long or braided, while another will recommend it be short or shaven. Then comes the body itself, the last means of asserting group membership. CC are interested in the skin: make-up, tattooing, mutilation. Asserting membership in a group by ritualistic changes in physical appearance is an ancient practice.
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