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(.#312).- Mind Control - Cults and Getting Support.
Mind Control - Cults and Getting Support
By Colleen Johnston © 2003
There are different types of cults,with various doctrines, as well as those who subject followers to a variety of mental, mind-controlled techniques. Currently great numbers of end time groups have emerged on the scene with frenzy. Some only mildly affect an attendee's psyche while others inflict major psychological damage that can affect the person for years afterwards. In the case where someone stays in a cult for many years the mind control technique used is layered on like sections of an onion, the subliminal damage may affect the person for many years later. Every aspect of control will affect all corners of the ex-cult member's lifestyle, triggering them mentally, emotionally at different times under different situations or conditions.
Support groups or private counseling benefit the person who has been in a group even a very short while and are a necessity for those who’ve been in a group a year or longer. The longer someone is in a group the deeper the onion layers are. Some forms of mind control are often very subliminal. I'll give a case in point here.
One young woman who got involved with a UFO channeling group for around three years became frustrated because she had lost the nerve to voice her opinion in front of small groups of people. She on all counts seemed to be a very assertive positive person; a confident woman until it came to addressing a room full of her piers. She would completely freeze up and start to stutter, she even became lightheaded every time the focus shifted on her to speak her opinion at a business luncheon or meeting. Yet, she had no trouble with conversation and closing business deals if it were a one to one setting.
She had been out of the group for close to two years without counseling and thought she was doing fine. She basically swept the idea of going to a therapist under a rug without giving it much thought.
One afternoon, after a similar one on one conversation with her boss, the employer had asked her to speak at a small business luncheon dealing with company growth. She agreed, thinking that a small group might be okay. Seven prepared her topic. However, with less than 12 hours before the meeting her heart began to pound in her chest the night before the engagement. She became restless and highly agitated without understanding why. She lay in bed semi-awake listening for the alarm to go off and may have slept a couple of hours. By morning, she had begun to run a fever and was completely exhausted. She became anxious, her head was swimming and her throat became very sore. A few hours before the late morning meeting, she was so psychologically as well as physically ill she had to cancel. Her boss, didn’t have time to find a replacement, and had to rush to reschedule the meeting. Once she had called in to work, she immediately started feeling better, which dumbfounded her, but the short notice nearly cost her, her job.
What she didn't recognize was while in the channeling group; she was repeatedly told to shut up and to listen because she couldn't learn if she was talking and she was ignorant, that she couldn’t possibly know as much as the channel, simply if she would raise her hand to offer a suggestion or to ask the channeled being a question. The other group members would nod in unison and the woman would humbly apologize. The charismatic leader of this seemingly benign group had implemented many forms of mind control techniques on all his followers. One way was to dominate a conversation and belittle the assembly if they spoke out of turn during meetings. Yet these people didn't appear to have any appearance of being a cult. They didn't live in a compound, or controlled community. They didn’t wear unusual clothing and had no set religious beliefs.
About twenty-five members met once a month in a larger group to discuss various sightings and UFO reports and a smaller selected group of around fifteen people met twice monthly to listen to a supposed ancient alien master which channeled through the leader about events to come. The smaller group had one thing in common; each believed they had some type of alien contact experience and other anomalous experiences where missing time was involved. She had several episodes of missing time and had a UFO sighting. She stated she was earnestly looking for answers to the enigma when the UFO expert invited her to the smaller sessions.
The group leader had psychologically managed to break the young woman's spirit if she questioned any of the channeled information by repeatedly reinforcing within her that her opinion/questions or voice didn't matter. He achieved this by setting the group in a circle and after the channeling session opening it up for group questions. If she would ask a question that was against what the group leader taught or one that would prompt others to think beyond group teachings -- he would chastise her in front of the others making her opinion appear invalid.
Every time others would focus their attention towards her, she was subliminally conditioned to believe she was making some type of a mistake and expected retribution on an unconscious level if she said anything at all. She ended up in counseling and dealt with several other layers of insecurity the leader laid upon her that affected all aspects of her life.
Her story is typical of how subtle forms of mind control works to permeate life outside of the group mindset, even for years afterward. Support is important part of recovery and is best if it's done in a professional setting with qualified therapists. Exit groups are okay as long as there is a qualified therapist involved to help someone who triggers in a major type of way. Finding the right therapy may take time, be patient. But please thoroughly check out any support group that is not part of the mainstream.
Unfortunately cult leaders head a small fraction of unknown support groups. In one case a rather large national cult awareness network. It originally became embroiled in a major legal battle, with a Science based cult that clams membership in the hundreds of thousands. The cult awareness network had no recourse, it hadn’t needed dollars to fight, so it was forced to close up shop, but not before the cult group bought the rights to use the name of the group. It is now being used as a recruitment and disinformation center; often indoctrinating ex-cult members with a pro cultic agenda once they contact the group!
F I N .
Mind Control - Cults and Getting Support
By Colleen Johnston © 2003
There are different types of cults,with various doctrines, as well as those who subject followers to a variety of mental, mind-controlled techniques. Currently great numbers of end time groups have emerged on the scene with frenzy. Some only mildly affect an attendee's psyche while others inflict major psychological damage that can affect the person for years afterwards. In the case where someone stays in a cult for many years the mind control technique used is layered on like sections of an onion, the subliminal damage may affect the person for many years later. Every aspect of control will affect all corners of the ex-cult member's lifestyle, triggering them mentally, emotionally at different times under different situations or conditions.
Support groups or private counseling benefit the person who has been in a group even a very short while and are a necessity for those who’ve been in a group a year or longer. The longer someone is in a group the deeper the onion layers are. Some forms of mind control are often very subliminal. I'll give a case in point here.
One young woman who got involved with a UFO channeling group for around three years became frustrated because she had lost the nerve to voice her opinion in front of small groups of people. She on all counts seemed to be a very assertive positive person; a confident woman until it came to addressing a room full of her piers. She would completely freeze up and start to stutter, she even became lightheaded every time the focus shifted on her to speak her opinion at a business luncheon or meeting. Yet, she had no trouble with conversation and closing business deals if it were a one to one setting.
She had been out of the group for close to two years without counseling and thought she was doing fine. She basically swept the idea of going to a therapist under a rug without giving it much thought.
One afternoon, after a similar one on one conversation with her boss, the employer had asked her to speak at a small business luncheon dealing with company growth. She agreed, thinking that a small group might be okay. Seven prepared her topic. However, with less than 12 hours before the meeting her heart began to pound in her chest the night before the engagement. She became restless and highly agitated without understanding why. She lay in bed semi-awake listening for the alarm to go off and may have slept a couple of hours. By morning, she had begun to run a fever and was completely exhausted. She became anxious, her head was swimming and her throat became very sore. A few hours before the late morning meeting, she was so psychologically as well as physically ill she had to cancel. Her boss, didn’t have time to find a replacement, and had to rush to reschedule the meeting. Once she had called in to work, she immediately started feeling better, which dumbfounded her, but the short notice nearly cost her, her job.
What she didn't recognize was while in the channeling group; she was repeatedly told to shut up and to listen because she couldn't learn if she was talking and she was ignorant, that she couldn’t possibly know as much as the channel, simply if she would raise her hand to offer a suggestion or to ask the channeled being a question. The other group members would nod in unison and the woman would humbly apologize. The charismatic leader of this seemingly benign group had implemented many forms of mind control techniques on all his followers. One way was to dominate a conversation and belittle the assembly if they spoke out of turn during meetings. Yet these people didn't appear to have any appearance of being a cult. They didn't live in a compound, or controlled community. They didn’t wear unusual clothing and had no set religious beliefs.
About twenty-five members met once a month in a larger group to discuss various sightings and UFO reports and a smaller selected group of around fifteen people met twice monthly to listen to a supposed ancient alien master which channeled through the leader about events to come. The smaller group had one thing in common; each believed they had some type of alien contact experience and other anomalous experiences where missing time was involved. She had several episodes of missing time and had a UFO sighting. She stated she was earnestly looking for answers to the enigma when the UFO expert invited her to the smaller sessions.
The group leader had psychologically managed to break the young woman's spirit if she questioned any of the channeled information by repeatedly reinforcing within her that her opinion/questions or voice didn't matter. He achieved this by setting the group in a circle and after the channeling session opening it up for group questions. If she would ask a question that was against what the group leader taught or one that would prompt others to think beyond group teachings -- he would chastise her in front of the others making her opinion appear invalid.
Every time others would focus their attention towards her, she was subliminally conditioned to believe she was making some type of a mistake and expected retribution on an unconscious level if she said anything at all. She ended up in counseling and dealt with several other layers of insecurity the leader laid upon her that affected all aspects of her life.
Her story is typical of how subtle forms of mind control works to permeate life outside of the group mindset, even for years afterward. Support is important part of recovery and is best if it's done in a professional setting with qualified therapists. Exit groups are okay as long as there is a qualified therapist involved to help someone who triggers in a major type of way. Finding the right therapy may take time, be patient. But please thoroughly check out any support group that is not part of the mainstream.
Unfortunately cult leaders head a small fraction of unknown support groups. In one case a rather large national cult awareness network. It originally became embroiled in a major legal battle, with a Science based cult that clams membership in the hundreds of thousands. The cult awareness network had no recourse, it hadn’t needed dollars to fight, so it was forced to close up shop, but not before the cult group bought the rights to use the name of the group. It is now being used as a recruitment and disinformation center; often indoctrinating ex-cult members with a pro cultic agenda once they contact the group!
F I N .
