Or they think the cultists possess some special technique, or, on the contrary, consider them to some fools. In fact, they are the same people as you and I, not smarter and not stupider. They just got into a situation where they had no choice. This article focuses on how this happens.
How do ordinary people get into sects?
Actually a lot of variants, I will describe the background and only a common mechanism of involvement in the sect.
Where does the path to the sect begin?
It all starts with the adoption of false beliefs. Such beliefs include: "faith in fate”, "faith in destiny", "faith in predictions”, “faith in miracles”, “faith in wise teachers”, “faith in aura”, “faith in subtle energies”, "faith in secret knowledge", in the third eye and so on.
How is the assimilation of these beliefs? Predominantly through reading any sign "esoteric" literature, TV programs Pro psychics, mages and magicians, reading horoscopes and so on.
Such beliefs are "Trojan horses" in our psyche with which we can be manipulated. These beliefs create the conditions for us to assimilate other beliefs that are even more detached from reality.
If you believe in astrology, damage, divination, places of power “ "strong energy" and so on, then you are at risk.
The assimilation of such beliefs is a preparatory stage, when a person has not yet seen a single sectarian in person, but is already enriched by their ideas, reading various literature, watching video lectures and so on. Thus the human consciousness is already ready to join the sect, although it is not yet known what. Though who the first will find such " treasure”"
If we believe that some people have, for example, supernatural abilities, then it is already quite easy for us to agree that we can also be taught this. Here and ready to participate in some destructive training, where he for three days will be learning to open the third eye, simultaneously processing his mind.
In fact, a person may never meet anyone who will recruit him, but at the same time will have all the properties that a sectarian should have. Beliefs form a person's need for something like that. Then, on this need can be play.
Meeting with recruiters
How do you get into sects? One day you are walking with a thoughtful look from work or school, when suddenly a handsome man of the opposite sex smiles at you and hands you a brochure with the words “we have a free chakra cleaning seminar nearby, and you have such an aura!"or it could be something more innocuous, like divination.
Then it all depends on you. If you have already read about the chakras, you can go to a seminar on the chakras. If you believe in predictions, you may well be interested in the services of a fortune teller.
Depending on what false beliefs clog the human brain, it becomes vulnerable to indoctrination of various scammers.
Primary processing
Suppose a person goes to a chakra cleansing seminar. In fact, at this stage, the person gets into the scenario in which it will lead. When he comes to the seminar, he is attached to a few "experienced participants" who will tell him how wonderful he is.
This technique is called "love bombardment", when a person is admired, amazed by his humor and erudition. In a word, they make a person feel important. If it is a seminar on the chakras, you can always emphasize the “unusual and strong green aura...” or something like that. Depends on subjects.
In addition, a person will be told various "fairy tales" about how you can move forward on the path of opening the chakras. In short, the man will arrange an entertaining performance. Along the way, specially trained people will portray his best friends.
At the end of the meeting he will say something like this:
You're such an interesting person! It seems to us that this is the fate(the belief about destiny) that we met you. This weekend will be a cool lecture! We'll ask you to go there for free!
One of the cultists will take the person to the one who led the seminar.
- Mikhail Ivanovich! Meet {your name}. Notice his green aura!
Wow! Indeed, a very unusual aura!
- Can he get a free pass to the lecture this weekend?
"Sure, but let him sign up."
After that, the person leaves information about himself and his contact phone number. He'll get a call on Friday to remind him about the lecture. At the weekend he will be taken somewhere out of town for a three-day intensive chakra cleansing.
Processing
When a person arrives at the place, he will get into the system. He will not be given a second of free time. He will be constantly occupied with something: lectures, physical exercises, group dances... he will be accompanied everywhere by his “new friends”.
Gradually, step by step, his beliefs will shift in the right direction. For example, if a person believed only “in fate”, he will try to plant more other false beliefs.
In the end, he will be told something about the fact that the world is hostile, rolling into darkness, and here is a group of chosen ones who will lead humanity back to the light. The purpose of this, to plant a person two beliefs: "the world is hostile” “" we Are your only friends."
In addition, the person will begin to cultivate a sense of guilt and duty to his “new friends” who allegedly vouched for him.
It should be noted that the immersion into the new reality will be very gradual and imperceptible. He will not be loaded with information for which he is not ready. He will be led from step to step. In the end, his picture of the world will be strikingly different from that of the sober members of society. That's how you get into sects.
Is there any way to protect against sects?
In fact, everything is much more complicated. I roughly described only a certain scheme, one of many that can be. The main thing to remember is that the impact on a person is carried out by replacing his beliefs.
The fact that sects operate on a certain technology impact on the human psyche. It is based on systematic errors of human thinking. If we draw an analogy, these are "bugs" in our minds that everyone has.
For this reason, to counteract this technology can only be specially trained people who have the appropriate support of psychologists. Other people can only lead, if they initially will not be false beliefs on which the ideology of the sect. For example, in our example about “Chakra sect”, if a person categorically does not accept the idea of chakras, then the ideological treatment of “about chakras” will not act on him for some period of time.
However, it is necessary to remember that it only lengthens terms of change of mentality.
Therefore, the only protection against the influence of sects is the awareness of people about their work. When people understand that it is a sect and how it affects them. As a preventive measure, we should methodically get rid of false beliefs that are present in almost all of us.
If you suspect that an organization is supposedly a sect, do not even talk to its members.