For a long time, the shameful practice of “deprogramming” existed in the United States. The sectarian was kidnapped, forcibly held in a deserted place, beaten, deprived of sleep and food, and pumped with information compromising the sect.
The practice of deprogramming was often carried out by people who not only had nothing to do with psychology, but were simply criminalized. In a number of cases, deprogrammers used a person’s defenselessness in order to assert themselves and satisfy their base desires, in particular they raped sectarians.
Don't convince
Were these methods of withdrawal from the sect effective? For those who want to make money from the grief of parents whose children ended up in a sect, of course: the services of kidnapping a person and depriving him of his freedom are expensive. For the parents themselves, for their children, I’m afraid not: sleep deprivation, hunger, physical violence, many hours of pumping with specially selected information - all this can only work if the person himself accepts the attitudes, views, and worldviews imposed on him.
The practice of deprogramming has ceased not only due to a wave of lawsuits, but also because of its uselessness.
It is impossible to force a person out of a sect.
It is also quite difficult to convince a sectarian, to prove to him that being in a sect brings him harm. Try to convince a retired Stalinist that Joseph Vissarionovich is a bad person. Tell the young anarchist that in addition to freedoms, restrictions are needed, and in addition to rights, there are also responsibilities. People have a hard time giving up their beliefs even in the face of stubborn facts.
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Sect
is an independent religious group, closed in its own interests (including cultic ones), separated from the traditional church or traditional religion. At the same time, she can both use familiar dogmas, remaking them in her own way, and create her own rules and laws. In a broader sense, a sect is a social group united by a common spiritual idea or goal.
The consequences of the influence of totalitarian organizations and non-traditional cults on a person have very serious consequences for the physical and mental health of a person. Often people turn into slaves with the help of a comprehensive system of prohibitions and regulations, when their whole life is regulated to the smallest detail, a wall of alienation is created between them and the rest of the world, they give the organization their property, their strength, their health... Often this ends in madness or suicide (sometimes murder).
Strange as it may seem at first glance, in most cases, recruitment into a totalitarian sect occurs on a voluntary basis and falls on the ground already prepared by the previous life of the potential victim. Using the natural spiritual need of a person and his craving for the search for truth, a totalitarian sect wants to enslave not only a person, but also force him to serve himself in the name of God himself.
Signs by which totalitarian sects can be distinguished:
- Totalitarian sects are distinguished not only by the conviction that everyone except them will inevitably perish, but also by deep joy about this;
- Each sect believes that only it has found the only correct path to knowledge of God, and that God has instructed it alone to tell the whole world about it;
- Every sect operates with a certain secret teaching, which is hidden from the uninitiated, and the main points of the teaching are communicated only after conversion, when there is no turning back. This is what in psychology is called an esoteric gap;
- In a sect, as one becomes dedicated, the religious principle itself is replaced by service not to God, but to the interests of the organization, which is entirely determined by the interests of its leaders. Connection with God is replaced by devotion to a person - a teacher or group of leaders who act on his behalf.
Mental violence against a person
Damage to the health and personality of a person in a cult is caused as a result of hidden mental violence and manipulation of a person’s consciousness under the guise of sermons, ceremonies, rituals, as a result of massive suggestions in states of artificially altered consciousness, up to deep hypnosis and self-hypnosis, resulting from the use of certain psychotechnical methods during "worship", rituals, initiation, meditation.
Specialists and doctors who observed, for example, former Scientologists, diagnosed their condition as “post-traumatic stress disorder.” Psychiatrists came to believe that Hubbard had inverted the treatment processes used to relieve obsessive-compulsive disorders, thereby artificially driving clients into syndromes of these conditions, which in turn led to a range of mental disorders. Former members reported a high rate of mental illness caused by so-called "chronic fatigue syndrome" - a lack of desire and energy.
Psychosomatic symptoms (headaches, back pain, asthma, skin disorders, sleep disorders, nightmares, digestive disorders, sexual problems) become constant companions of former adherents of totalitarian cults and sects.
Problems with decision making, delayed psychological development, loss of psychological strength, guilt, fear, loss of trust, fear of intimacy and commitment. There are facts indicating that many made desperate attempts to regain freedom, but fears and persecution from the cult, embedded in the subconscious, drove people to mental disorders and even suicide.
Ex-cultists and their health.
In some destructive religious organizations, after leaving the cult, even with a favorable environment in the family and the help of specialists, a person feels like a stranger in society.
Thus, American psychologists, having examined a large group of ex-cultists (who were difficult to “take out” from the cult), found: 52% of them had “floating” syndrome; nightmares – 40%; amnesia (memory disorder) – 21%; hallucinations and mania – 14%; inability to break the “obsessive mental rhythms” of monotonous singing ritually imposed in the sect – 35%; outbursts of rage - 14%; tendencies towards suicide or self-destruction – 21%.
According to statistics, out of 88% of ex-cultists, they viewed their groups as harmful or very harmful (51%).
In order to attract people into their activities, sects use various media channels to advertise their “ultimate truth.” According to converts, real friendships and family relationships are formed there, and the search for truth for each person ends there. Withdrawal into the system of these sects from the real problems of modern life can be considered as one of the options for psychological protection from the “cold secular and cruel world.”
Dependence on a sect, in its effect on the psyche, can be compared and placed on the same level with drug addiction.
Fortunately, there is an effective method to combat this disease.
Currently, hypnosis is increasingly gaining popularity among specialists and ordinary people. People turn to hypnologists for a variety of reasons. The most common situations for the use of hypnosis are various neuroses, phobias, fears, depression, OCD, IBS, VSD, digestive, sexual disorders, correction of human behavioral reactions, low self-esteem, complexes, bad habits. Moreover, in these cases, hypnotherapy remains the only effective method, since it is aimed at ridding the patient of the causes of his disease, while all other methods, including pharmaceutical ones, claim only to temporarily relieve symptoms.
The successful use of hypnosis in the treatment of such a wide range of diseases is due to the fact that the point of application of the therapeutic word in hypnosis is the cerebral hemispheres of the human brain, which control all organs and systems of the body. The word in hypnosis turns out to be an extremely powerful healing factor, producing a direct and immediate effect on the nature and dynamics of cortical processes. This opens a direct path to eliminating pathological processes and mobilizing the necessary internal resources of the human body.
Therefore, hypnotherapy is the only method of psychological assistance to a person that allows one to eliminate the cause of the disease, and not its symptom, having a direct and immediate impact on the nature and dynamics of cortical processes, mobilizing the necessary internal resources of the human body. Our original method of hypnotherapy will help you get rid of your illness for life!
Over 20 years of practice, we have developed a unique proprietary method, based exclusively on scientific neurophysiological research of our luminaries - Soviet academicians and professors. Professional influence according to our author’s methodology is one of the most effective services at present. It is aimed not only at getting rid of mental violence, but also at the psychogenic causes of its occurrence.
In the treatment of addiction to a sect, it is not enough to remove only the psychophysiological cravings of the body, but it is also especially important to identify and rid the patient of the root causes of departure to another reality. From the internal program of a loser, low self-esteem, from distorted values, fears, guilt and an abyss of mental pain, from the helplessness to live. The very dependence on the sect is only the result of internal, deep-seated reasons!
Are there possible side effects from hypnosis?
According to experts, to date no such facts have been identified. Research at different times was carried out by such prominent and authoritative scientists as: V. M. Bekhterev, I. P. Pavlov, S. S. Libikh (1974), A. I. Zakharov (1982), A. A. Tokarsky (1989) , M. S. Lebedinsky, A. T. Pshonik (1952), L. L. Vasilyev, I. P. Bryazgunov (1970) L. Chertok (1972), V. I. Sukhorukova (1977), P. K. Anokhin, N. E. Vvedensky (1911-1913), N. I. Krasnogorsky, V. M. Shklovsky (1975, 1994), V. N. Myasishchev, Yu. A. Povorinsky (1950), S. N. Davidenkov , K. M. Varshavsky (1973), S. S. Kor-sakov, K. M. Bykov, A. M. Svyadoshch (1982), V. Ya. Danilevsky, B. N. Birman (1922,1925, 1946 ), L. B. Gakkel (1955), D. Ya. Vengerovsky (1955), I. Z. Velvovsky (1984), A. L. Groysman, K. I. Platonov (1957), S. L. Rubinstein, V. E. Rozhnov, A. A. Ukhtomsky, I. M. Sechenov, A. M. Svyadosch, A. P. Slobodyanik, E. S. Katkov, M. P. Kutanii, V. V. Kuzmin, P. P. Podyapolsky, E. N. Dovbnya, F. E. Rybakov, V. N. Khoroshko, A. I. Yarotsky, A. F. Lazursky, Yu. V. Kannabikh, V. M. Narbut, F. D. Netkachev, V. A. Gilyarovsky, M. V. Strelchuk, G. V. Morozov, V. M. Banshchikov, N.V. Ivanov, N.K. Lipgart, A.G. Ivanov-Smolensky, etc. Scientists have proven that the human psyche self-regulates during a therapeutic trance, its internal reserves are mobilized, the body’s defenses are activated (compensatory ), the body’s homeostasis returns to normal, and therefore there is no danger to the patient’s mental and physiological health.
Positive aspects of hypnotic treatment:
- Complete absence of drug effects on the human body.
- No side effect.
- Healthy. Normalizes the homeostasis of the body, strengthens the central nervous system, etc.
- Eliminates the causes of the disease.
- Cheaper.
A hypnosis session in itself is healing for a person. Hypnosis improves a person’s overall well-being, ensures the coordinated functioning of all organs and systems of the body, homeostasis, which allows the patient to feel a new surge of vitality. It has a positive effect on the functioning of many organs and systems: cardiovascular, respiratory, endocrine, digestive, central nervous system, helps with insomnia, relieves irritability, reduces anxiety, etc.
The most dangerous modern sects
Let us list the most famous and dangerous modern destructive cults: “Church of Scientology”, “Jehovah’s Witnesses”, “Unification Church” and other Moonist organizations, “Society for Krishna Consciousness”, “Transcendental Meditation”, “Ananda Marga”, “Sahaja Yoga”, cult of Sri Chinmoy, Brahma Kumaris, cult of Sai Sathya Baba, Kundalini yoga, cult of Osho Rajneesh, Aum Shinrikyo, Soka Gokkai, Falun Gong, Family (Children of God), Church of Jesus Christ (Boston movement of Kip McKean), “Faith Movement” (neo-Pentecostals, including such sects as “New Generation”, “Living Water”, “Word of Life”, “Embassy of God”, “Church on the Rock”, “Dew” "Grace", "The Potter's House", "Living Faith". "Church of the Love of Christ", all "Full Gospel Churches"), "Brotherhood of the Violet Flame", "New Acropolis", "Sinton" Kozlov, "Church of the Mother of God Sovereign" (aka "Theotokos", "Zelfs of true piety", "Church of the Last Testament", cult "Anastasia", Ivanovo, Shchetinin school, "Radasteya", Olga Asaulyak sect, "Tetrada", Stolbun sect, "Lhasa School", “Zolotov Academy of Frontal Problems”, “Trojan’s Trail”, “Reiki” and a host of other groups and sects that impose occult-magical and immoral ideas and practices under the guise of various kinds of pseudoscientific, pseudo-Christian, Eastern, occult and syncretic doctrines.
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Stay in touch
If your loved one has ended up in a sect, there is no point in looking for a miraculous way to get him out of there.
The main thing to do is to try to maintain contact with your loved one and the opportunity to communicate.
The sect, as a rule, tries to convince its member that parents, friends, spouses are his enemies, instruments of the devil who interfere with his salvation, losers who prevent him from achieving success, suppressive individuals seeking to enslave. And therefore, you need to try with all your might to make your loved one feel comfortable with you and feel your love.
It may be useful (although it is not easy) if you offer him a worthy alternative to the cult: a better-paid job, more pleasant intimate relationships. Well, then you need to be patient and wait. Perhaps sectarians will offend your loved one. Or he will be disappointed in the ideals of the sect, in its teachings, in its leaders. Or the sect itself will understand that it has nothing more to take from your loved one, and will throw it away as waste material.
By the way, one of the problems that a person who decides to leave the sect faces is that he simply has nowhere to return to: friends are lost, his career is destroyed, relationships with loved ones are forever damaged.
Some people (usually parents who love their child very much) act as follows: they create a lot of problems for the sect, forcing it to give up the child. But firstly, this path is very difficult and dangerous, and secondly, the sect may abandon your loved one, but whether he will abandon the sect is a big question. It is quite possible that a person will finally hate his parents, who took away from him those whom he considered friends, associates, and Teachers.
What is the danger of sects?
Freedom of religion is an inalienable human right. However, sectarians are people who are involved in illegal organizations, even if built in the manner of a church, but pursuing criminal goals.
What is the danger of sects? First of all, illegality. A sect is not a denominational church. Its only purpose is not to organize the service of God. The current spreads its influence over its members, cutting them off from society. The leaders of such organizations cultivate dependence in people, seize their property and funds.
Prevention of traps
If you fall into a sect, the same logic applies as when putting out a fire: it is easier to prevent a fire than to put it out. How to prevent falling into a sect?
It is necessary to block a person’s paths that most likely lead to a sect.
Among these paths, one cannot fail to note the desire to find an easy, clever, bypass path to health, wealth, sexual satisfaction, success or fame. A passion for esotericism and alternative medicine also contributes to joining a sect. The spiritual search, the search for going beyond everyday life, also often leads the seeker into a dangerous cult.
Various supposedly harmless hobbies in “spiritual” practices, the power of thought, the law of attraction, meditation, shamanism, bioenergy, and extrasensory perception should not be encouraged. If you see that a person dear to you is immersed in the search for easy ways, a miracle drug, effective psychotechnologies, expanded consciousness, a wise subconscious, inner harmony, etc., hurry to take fire-fighting measures.
Fortunately, today there is enough material on bookshelves and on the Internet exposing all kinds of charlatans, esoteric dealers and psychological swindlers. The scientific worldview is indeed, in a number of cases, capable of protecting a person from “innocent” esoteric, extrasensory, and occult practices.
It is unlikely that a person who knows what energy and field are from the point of view of modern physics will be carried away by the pseudoscientific concepts of bioenergy and biofields, and a person who is well acquainted with chemistry and pharmacology will be carried away by miraculous drugs.
Create and explore
It is useful to switch a person from searching for geopathogenic zones and places of power to art. It is the inability to express one’s emotions from a beautiful landscape or building that leads to the emergence of various “energy” sensations. Fortunately, today there are not only many opportunities to learn how to draw, photograph, write poetry and music, but also many options for sharing the fruits of your creative growth with others.
True, on this path you should be wary of all sorts of charlatans. Some gurus promise to teach you how to draw in three sessions by activating the right hemisphere or awakening hidden creative resources dormant somewhere in the subconscious.
Often a person is drawn to a sect by a passion for China, Japan, India, and Tibet. In this case, it can be very useful to receive an appropriate serious education - historical, linguistic. Yes, quite often the study of the true history of the same Tibet, captured by China, or India, captured by the British, completely dispels the esoteric illusions about the mysterious Mahatmas, capable of killing with one wave.
Signs of sect influence
How can you understand that a loved one or good friend has become involved in an illegal organization that preaches its own religion? To do this, you need to pay attention to his behavior and statements. Such people disappear for several hours to attend events in the form of seminars and meetings. They bring the organization’s literature into the house, turn on special “spiritual” music, and burn incense in an oriental manner. A person who joins a sect immediately has a wide circle of new acquaintances, creating the effect of “entering a circle.” He begins to tell his family about them, bring them to visit, and when calling, observe rituals unknown to everyone.
A person who has fallen under the influence of a sect adheres to fasts that are unusual for everyone, educates and corrects his loved ones, accusing them of sinfulness, while making attempts to convert them to his faith. The newly minted sectarian condemns the ignorance of those around him. He becomes withdrawn, self-absorbed and refuses to communicate. Soon, valuables begin to disappear from the house. A person quits his job and leaves his family in order to live permanently in a sect. If he also turns off his mobile phone, then for his loved ones this can mean one thing - the organization has a very strong influence on him. At the same time, its demands on its members are dangerous and radical.
