Cults: Useful resources (continued)

10 Things you need to know about cults, from the Cult Avoidance Society.

http://www.cultavoidancesociety.org/index.html

I thought this video of Paul Morantz gave some useful info.

Paul Morantz on Cults, Confession and Mind Control http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_RXEis52yQs

Singer’s Six Criteria

from Cults in Our Midst, Jossey-Basse,1995

1) Controlling an individual’s time and thought content

2) Creation of sense of powerlessness

3) Manipulation of system of rewards, punishment, and experiences to promote learning of new belief system

4) Manipulation of system of rewards, punishment, and experiences to inhibit a person’s previous life values and beliefs

5) Closed system of logic and an authoritarian structure

6) Indoctrination performed on an uniformed individual

(Bullet points from Releasing the Bonds Video 6) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tQ1-JfYTAo8

(For more an extensive description see “Singer’s Six Conditions” Cults in Our Midst, Jossey-Basse, 1995, pages 64-69) Cults In Our Midst by Margaret Thaler Singer is available on amazon books.com http://www.amazon.com/Cults-Our-Midst-Continuing-Against/dp/0787967416/####  and amazonbooks.co.uk http://www.amazon.co.uk/s/####?url=search-alias%3Dstripbooks&field-keywords=cults%20in%20our%20midst

Cheers

The Fellas (Friends of Alcoholics Anonymous)

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