How people are manipulated to believe and accept even what is harmful to them?  One more for you Chuck.

Excerpts from a page:

"A cult can always claim that critics have misunderstood the belief system itself, and have therefore simply misunderstood and mis-interpreted the cult's description of its belief system".

 

I recommend this site to those trying to understand what happened to them and why we accepted so much negative teaching from the bad teacher.  It helped me lots to recover my SELF.

Best regards to everyone,

~Axis~ 

"The net result is twofold: firstly, cults are spared any obligation to prove to the outside world that their members became involved purely out of their own free will and choice, and secondly, they are not obliged to prove that involvement is safe and not psychologically damaging".

Think about this, Premie-spouse.

"It is possible to broadly place a group's belief system along the quasi-religious spectrum, based on investigating the belief system from the outside, as a non-believer. However, it requires more of an insider's perspective to understand the interior dynamics of the belief system, and in particular the effect that involvement with a cult belief system may have upon a person's mind or behaviour".