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Things
You Never Learned
in Kindergarten
(Oliver Gutleg)
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Education + Investigation = Emancipation
Without My Informed Consent!
Did you give your
informed consent at the time you went into the group?
How Mind Manipulation is Used for Influence and Control
Includes: "The Techniques of Coercive Persuasion"
Profile of a
Sociopath
A number of mind-manipulating cult
leaders may exhibit many of these behavioral characteristics.
Behavior, Information, Thought
and Emotional Control [offsite link]
Explains the four aspects of mind control.
Leaders of Totalistic Religious Groups Have These Things in Common
Lifton's Eight Criteria of Mind Control
Includes how it has been used by Herbert Armstrong and authoritarian
splinters
If You
Have a Loved One in a Deceptive, Exploitive Group
Covers what to do and not to do
Recovery
Info for Exiters (Understanding our Involvement)
Covers why we were vulnerable, how propaganda and
mind control works, indoctrination, effects, educating yourself, healing,
and more. By founder of ESN.
How Did I End Up in a Spiritually Abusive Group?
Also shows the results of being these groups
Where Do
I Find the "One True Church"?
Covers how to
avoid a spiritually abusive, totalistic cult or cultic group.
Clues to Application of Mind Control in Worldwide Church of God
Very good and detailed letter showing how WCG was
able to remove the true God from our minds and replace it with the WCG
organization; i. e, "the government." Includes mind control during the
changes.
Are You Being Recruited into a Totalistic Group?
(Twenty-two Differences in Content, Emphasis,
Methods, Church life and Lifestyle)
Principles of Influence Used in Society
Often
used by those leading totalist groups.
How to Resist Mind Control
Resisting
persuasion, resisting systems, challenging the system.
All or Nothing Statements (from those that have "the truth")
Questions to Ask Any Church or Religious Group You Are Planning on Becoming Involved With
Cults
[offsite link]
Good
three part article on "Cults: Questions & Answers" and "Cult Influence
Tactics."
The Cult Test
[offsite link]
Shows many characteristics of these
groups.
Wolves in Sheep's Clothing [offsite link]
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