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Only the laws of the father (the guru) really constitute the doctrines of the cult, but as in a family structure, the laws are sometimes shared. The mother (the cult) assimilates the initiatory speech and creates a second symbolic law that is less powerful, but that governs the operation of the organization.
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From Eccentricity to Strategy
The imaginary biography of a guru conceals considerable information. Fables? Pure invention? Sheer raving lunacy? From these nuances the cult’s organizational strategy is derived, its profile — and the choice of methods that may be sued to combat it.
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Political Schemes
The Pentecostal Church and its offshoots like the Universal
Church, however, do not appear to be the fruit of good luck nor of Brazil’s spiritual quest. In 1984, in a report addressed to the Vatican, the conference of Brazilian Bishops denounced the CIA’s hold on the Pentecostal sects and their use for objectives of manipulation and political influence, of which the CIA is so fond.
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COERCIVE PERSUASION - Propaganda Tools
The essential functions of coercive cults negate any individual benefit from the structure and repress any deviance. Thus, they affirm their totalitarian character.
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Health Hazards
Periodically, these Utopian medical practices are given publicity
by the press when some controversy arises. All of Austria held its breath in August 1995, watching the politico-legal drama of the Pilhar family. The family were members of the Fiat Lux cult, whose female guru, Erika Bertschinger (called Uriella), was a resident of Switzerland. When Helmut Pilhar fled abroad with his daughter Olivia, who was six years old and suffering from a serious renal tumor, the President and the Chancellor of Austria intervened. Uriella had directed the Pilhar family to have the girl treated by a Cologne doctor from the cult, named Dr. Ryke Geerd Hamer. Dr. Hamer had been prohibited from practicing medicine in Germany and Austria, and was even termed a “charlatan” by Dr. Juergessen, the original doctor who had been rendering
“conventional” medical treatment to the child. Efforts were made to persuade the father to have his daughter treated only by qualified medical practitioners, and to give up the magical practices promoted by Uriella. The political, legal and human drama caused the matter to become an obsession with the press. The publicity surrounding this case contributed to the reappearance in the general public of myths developed by cults for serious diseases like cancer and AIDS, where prayer and healing groups have always had a strong appeal, in part because of conventional medicine’s relative inability to cure certain serious diseases.
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Fascination
After a phase of doubt, the candidate is definitively convinced he has made the right choice when he is faced with the masterpiece of cult dynamics. Confrontation with the guru (or his deputies) breaks down his last reserves.
Then a new stage begins in the process of indoctrination. It introduces a magical character into the relationship between the future follower and the cult group. The relationship is detached little by little from reality and becomes established more in the symbolic universe of the sacred and the divine. This fascination will remove any possible inclination to withdraw from the influence of the cult and its members. It is accompanied by a request for complete commitment:
" You have discovered a group that wants to build a better world, purer and more beautiful. You know that the group has a fantastic leader who enables you to foresee the future of humanity. You learn that the group and the leader need you to fulfill their mission. You decide to commit yourself, to give your life for such a beautiful cause. "
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The Rule of Comparison
One of the obstacles that the cult confronts in its endeavor to persuade followers is the need to cross the barrier of “the rule of comparison.” This rule, in simple words, holds that the future cult member has to compare his past beliefs with the beliefs of the cult and has to assess whether or not they match up. From this analysis, three different results can emerge:
* If there is total dissonance between the individual’s beliefs and the CC’s (Coercive Cult) propositions, the latter is immediately rejected;
* If there is agreement, then the individual is a likely recruit and
only some effort at reinforcement is needed;
* Lastly, the most common situation is that the cult’s propositions
cause introspection, and the cult has to set up more complex procedures of conditioning. The follower must be exposed to new ideas at a pace that takes account of his ability to assimilate them and to confront them with his old convictions.
" Even if what I say is a lie, you can lose nothing by following this way of life. Suppose that I created a whole new theory to unify the world, a theory God never thought of; then God would come down and bargain with me to buy it. [7]
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7. A speech by Moon, Pasadena, 1977.
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PATHOLOGIES INDUCED BY CULT MANIPULATION - Generalized Anxiety...
Upon leaving a CC, the ex-follower suffers from a general feeling
of tension. He is in a state of suspense, expecting some sort of repercussions from his act of “treason.” He lives in a state of permanent imbalance between his old world and the new one. He notes with concern that his stay in the CC revealed that he had previously-unknown problems
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Political Schemes
Similarly, in the aftermath of the sarin gas attack by the Aum cult
in Japan, the international investigation that followed it underscored the close bonds existing between the Russian political powers and the cult. When Vitali Savitsky, the President of the Parliamentary Committee on Religious Organizations in Russia, was asked how the inquest was progressing, he said, in July 1995, “The investigation has been stymied at the highest level of the State. No trial of the Aumists will take place.” It is obvious that Moscow did not take pains to clarify the relations between the Aum sect and the services of the State. It seems that Oleg Lobov, Secretary of the Security Council, was among those responsible for the establishment of Aum in Russia. In 1991, he contacted Shoko Asahara for the alleged purpose of collecting funds for the creation of a Russian-Japanese university. During his stay in Russia, Asahara met Ruslan Khasbulatov, at that time President of the Parliament, and also Alexander Rutskoi, Vice-President of Russia.
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PATHOLOGIES INDUCED BY CULT MANIPULATION - Collective Delirium
These cults are driven by a constant, low-grade delirium, which mirror the delirium of the guru. These irrational whispers establish a harmony between individual pathology and collective pathology. The topics and the organization of these delusions must be identical to those of the guru’s, or they will result in criticism and harsher punishment. Along with sub rosa delusions, the group shares a history of experiences that bind them together. The cult will redefine these paroxystic delirious phases when discussing supernatural events: how many delirious episodes are ascribed as divine manifestations, communication with the beyond or with God? The collective delirious experience strengthens the cohesion of the group by making them feel as though they belong to an elitist community as well as by reinforcing the individual delusions within the collective delusion.
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