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09 Sep 09

edselect worksheet search

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07 Sep 09

The Chisholm Trail

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Shawnee Trail was no
longer predictable
victorious north would be the perfect market for the longhorn
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- despised any northern economic activity

20 May 09

The Watchman Expositor: The Use of Mind Control in Religious Cults (Part 2)

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control of information and communication
spontaneous
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- perfection
- no confidentiality
- Truth is not to be found outside the group
- The group interprets or uses words and phrases in new ways so that often the outside world does not understand
- personal experiences are subordinated to the sacred science
- Dispensing of existence.
- those in the outside world are not saved, unenlightened, unconscious and they must be converted to the group's ideology
- [edit] Margaret Singer's conditions for mind control
- without being aware of the final agenda or full content of the group.
- deployable
- commitment
- etting members away from their normal social support group
- Strip members of their main occupation (quit jobs, drop out of school) or source of income or have them turn over their income
- confidence in their own perception erodes.
- good judgment and understanding of the world are diminished. (ordinary view of reality is destabilized)
- not allowed to speak about this confusion or object to it - leadership suppresses questions and counters resistance.
- attacks the target's previous worldview,
- distress and inner confusion
- aced speaking patterns, guided imagery, chanting, long prayer sessions or lectures, and lengthy meditation sessions
- irrelevant or evil
- Members get positive feedback for conforming to the group's beliefs and behaviors and negative feedback for old beliefs and behavior.
- . If one expresses a question, he or she is made to feel that there is something inherently disordered about them to be questioning.
- feedback
- complicated and filled with contradictions the new system is and the more difficult it is to learn
- Esteem
- conform
- Members' relationship with peers is threatened whenever they fail to learn or display new behaviors.
- insecurity generated by the difficulties of learning the new system is to inhibit any display of doubts -- new recruits simply acquiesce, affirm and act as if they do understand and accept the new ideology
- top-down, pyramid structure. The leaders must have verbal ways of never losing.
- Members are not allowed to question, criticize or complain
- The targeted individual is treated as if he or she is always intellectually incorrect or injust, while conversely the system, its leaders and its beliefs are always automatically, and by default, considered as absolutely just.
- isolate
- the overthrow of free will is an unfalsifiable (and therefore unscientific) phenomenon
- Regulation of individual’s physical reality
- Major time commitment required for indoctrination sessions and group rituals
- Need to ask permission for major decisions
- report
- behavior modification
- Individualism discouraged; "group think" prevails
- Rigid
- dependency
- deception
- Access to non cult sources of information minimized or discouraged
- Compartmentalization of information; Outsider vs. Insider doctrines
- Spying
- cult generated information
- Unethical
- doctrine as "Truth"
- thought terminating clichés"
- Only "good" and "proper" thoughts
- hypnotic techniques to induce altered mental states
- false memories
- shut down "reality testing"
- Rejection of rational analysis, critical thinking, constructive criticism. No critical questions about leader, doctrine, or policy seen as legitimate.
  No alternative belief systems viewed as legitimate, good, or useful
- narrow the range of a person’s feelings
- fault
- guilt
- use of fear
- Extremes
- confession
- Phobia indoctrination
- ystematic deception, behavior modification, withholding of information, and emotionally intense persuasion techniques
- Unfreezing: the process of breaking a person down
  Changing: the indoctrination process
  Refreezing: the process of reinforcing the new identity
- shut down thinking
- Strategic Interaction Approach" (SIA)
- recover his full faculties
- creative, interdependent adult
- stronger
- understands
- digested and integrated the experience
- Influence, Science and Practice,
- healthy human social interactions
- Reciprocation
- Commitmen
- Truths
- Social Proof
- Liking
- Authority
- Scarcity
- conditions under which each social rule is most easily exploited for false ends, and offers suggestions on how to resist such methods
- by terrorist groups
- group
- stripping away all other group member identities
- personal identity
- identities of enemies
- enemies as subhuman
- enemies as evil
- recruiting
- social-political-'therapy' cults
- malleability
- resiliency
- authority
- membership in both Christian and non-Christian cults as a spiritual or theological issue.
- they challenge the validity of mind control theories and the alleged "victimization" by mind-contro
- Bogey Man of cult mind control is nothing but a ghost story
- As Christians who believe in an absolute standard of truth and religious reality, we cannot ignore the spiritual threat of the cults. We must promote critical thinking, responsible education, biblical apologetics, and Christian evangelism.
- Cults distort one's perceptions both of natural reality (sociological and psychological) and spiritual reality.