How to tell if you’re brainwashed?” | Steve Hassan | TEDxBoston
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- Do you know someone who has changed radically in their values and beliefs? Do you think it may have been brainwashing? Steven Hassan offers a 4-step reality testing formula developed over 45 years of research starting after leaving a cult that deceptively recruited him. The bottom line is that brainwashing is not just something that happens in cults-we are all susceptible. A talk to make you think.
Empowerment, Freedom, Global issues, Law, Psychology, Social Justice, cults Steven Hassan, PhD is a mental health professional and expert in undue influence tactics used by authoritarian leaders and destructive cults. His expertise includes harmful influence in cases of destructive religious and political cults, human trafficking, extremist and terrorist groups, one-on-one relationships, families, parental alienation, mini-cults, therapy and self-improvement groups, professional and institutional abuse, corporate and multi-level marketing programs, and harmful belief systems. He is the author of four books including Combating Cult Mind Control, Freedom of Mind and The Cult of Trump. He is a translated author with books in 10 languages. His foundational online course is Understanding Cults: The Basics. He is the Founding Director of the Freedom of Mind Resource Center, which provides training, consulting and support to individuals who are struggling to leave or recover from a cult and to families and organizations that are concerned about cult behaviors. He also is the founder of Freedom From Undue Influence, a not-for-profit entity with the purpose of conducting and publishing the research on undue influence that is needed to update legal and social policies. He developed the BITE Model of Authoritarian Control to identify control tactics and the Influence Continuum Model to discern ethical from unethical influence. He developed the Strategic Interactive Approach (SIA), as an effective and legal intervention alternative for families to help cult members. Dr. Hassan believes that access to the truth, freedom of thought, and freedom from undue influence are basic human rights. A complex systems approach, based in science and supported by the rule of law, is necessary to protect these rights. He is a member of the Program in Psychiatry and the Law at the Massachusetts Mental Health Center, a teaching hospital of Harvard Medical School. He is an experienced educator having served as an instructor for the Harvard Law School Trial Advocacy Workshop, as an elective teacher and a presenter for the Harvard Longwood Psychiatry Residency Training Program, and in other educational and training capacities for other higher education, professional, law enforcement, governmental, non-governmental and advocacy group audiences. Dr. Hassan began helping people affected by undue influence after he was deprogrammed from the Moon cult in 1976 at age 22. His 45 plus years of experience give him a unique perspective on the damaging effects of undue influence and exploitation by destructive cults. He is a frequently requested speaker and media interviewee. Dr. Hassan holds a Master’s Degree in Counseling Psychology from Cambridge College and a Doctorate in Organizational Development and Change from Fielding Graduate University School of Leadership Studies. Visit freedomofmind.com to access information and services. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at www.ted.com/tedx
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Any time some one says to "Do Not Think. Have Faith. Surrender." then you are being brain washed.
Well that's not true. We do that when we meditate often.
Not the faith part, but the other parts.
@@SolidSiren Becoming one with the source (meditating) is not someone telling you to not thing and trust me, now please give me some donations.
I like that
@@jimflagg4009 when people learn how to let go of the nonsense in their mind they are told to try to think of "nothing".
As a former Jehovah’s Witness you have helped me and my wife tremendously throughout our leaving process. I have nothing but gratitude and respect for you sir.
beautiful. best of luck for you on your journey
I agree that JW is a cult and I praise the Lord you were able to get out! Please don't abandon the Bible and God's word because of the way the watchtower twists and manipulates it. Christ is real and He is coming to judge the earth one day - pray, study your Bible and have a relationship with Him. God bless & and all the best as you look for the Truth! P.S. A good denomination to join if you are interested is Baptist and Melissa Dougherty has many videos on JW cults and the next steps froward
Are JW’s involved in gang stalking?
Wow. I cant imagine what that must be like. It may sound like an odd comparison, but i was raised by a narcissist. In that respect, i can understand what its like to start questioning things you once took for granted and understand that they just dont hold up. The problem with leaving one structure of meaning is that it has to be replaced by another. Otherwise- as i have felt- its more like im homeless, wandering and left with anxiety in place of security- even if it was ultimately a false security. As it definitely was. That said, I hope your journey is meaningful and leads to something so much greater than a false set of beliefs could ever be. The pursuit of truth is the highest calling man can have. Thats something we all have in common. Blessings brother.
Problem is, many charismatic churches, who condemn Jehovah's Witnesses and Mormons as being cults, are cults THEMSELVES
Once you go down the road of deprogramming yourself, you never see the world the same. Its like you see everything as bubbles of influence that cause you to think a certain way
Maybe christians should be de-programmed.
Very well put!
💯👍👍👍👍👍👍
You will isolate yourself and end up on fourchan
He's alma mater at same college as my undergrad. Those effing cults are still there .. They're EVERYWHERE.
This is perhaps the most important video on YT.
My wife almost entered into a cult.
It is VERY hard to pull a person back.
But it can be done.
What cult? I was a member of Hyperianism for 3 years.
Left the latter day saint church (Mormons) recently. Never felt so free and discovering who I really am. I used to see reality through belief but now I am experiencing my own reality and aware of the diversity of reality. It's beautiful.
I left 12 yrs ago. It's so liberating to know real freedom from the dark sorcerers. Congratulations on your awakening process!
I'm happy for you. I also advise being careful. Now is a time when you're potentially vulnerable. Just like someone who's ended a relationship can rebound, so can someone who's escaped a cult. Take it slow. :)
Congrats you woke up
You should be ashamed being so easily manipulated when I was a baby. But thank truth that I found that religion all religions I based on lies
I left in 2020 (officially). Previously had maintained membership but hadn’t attended in a decade. Cut the cord. Now I’m the family apostate. With pride.
I was brainwashed for 15 years. It’s so freeing getting out from it, however, not many are aware it even exists. See Cara’s inner healing horror for my testimony.
Another thing I wish people would learn about is psychological tactics, used by manipulative leaders. Some really great tactics you want to recognize are *protection, deflection, and DARVO tactics.* These are used a lot for manipulation.
I watched the Leah rimini Scientology documentary series and as a Jehovah’s witnesses was surprised to see how eerily similar we were. The shunning especially, heartbreaking what control the shunning policy exercises over People and how it breaks Families apart.
Part of being and leaving a cult is also having to admit to yourself that you were wrong. Especially when you were taught to think you were the one and only to have the “truth”. But all these cults think that. And then to admit “it was a lie”. Wow hard pill to swallow.
Jehovah witnesses are doomed. once they realize what's happening they throw their lives away. usally with drugs.
As a former JW for more than 28 years I can tell you that EVERYTHING they said was 100% accurate
Budds: Yes, Leah Remini left the Jehovah's Witnesses cult and went back to Catholicism. She went from one cult to another.
Yes, very heartbreaking when they keep hidden their darkness...and you bring your children up in it, thinking it was a good spiritual upbringing.
Then one day, you wake up and see behind the curtain, but your children shun you as you walk away from it.
@@robynperdieu3434 : Yes, I don't see how they think shunning family and others is a good or normal behavior.
I have been brainwashed that much where I don't even know if the every day decisions I make are my own. And I don't know what to believe anymore. I feel like I just need to be free and happy.
We all need to disconnect for a while.
Do what you know you need to do to get out of it. The things you fear aren't real.
Critical thinking skills will set you free, free to be happy.
It's true that we are constantly being manipulated. The best thing to do is stay in the vibration of your creator, set goals & focus on working to accomplish them. &turn away from everything else.
me too this is exactly what i experience now 🤕
This is important work; but like many time misses discussing the complexity of children born into cults.
Imagine if all the social forces in your life were trying to keep you in the cult? Imagine if you didn’t have a pre-identity but all you knew was being mind-controlled and coerced. Imagine if you had no money, resources, connections, education, and had been abuse from birth. Imagine if you had significant mental and physical health issues and even disabilities due to being trafficked, and medical neglect.
How easy would it be to “think for yourself” and leave the abusive community?
This is such a sobering video.
I am convinced that people around me are doing this and now i have the proper mental tools to recognize it because of this and people like you.
Godspeed
The American school system is definitely guilty of this in my state when I was growing up. Technically I never got out or had a good enough chance to excuse myself from that.
This can be definitively come from any type of group. Any political group, religion, sports, anything where people gather. I think everyone is involved in some type of cult, some is more serious then others
Family also!!!
Totally agree. Free will is a myth. We are all programmed and the programming began in childhood.
Every influencer is a brainwashed of sorts. There is no escape.
As a kid raised in evanglicalism, leaving church at a young age and then leaving the faith shattered my entire world, but I feel like I saved the most vital parts of myself and my identity. I recognize all these tactics and affirm all the solutions to brainwashing. I began to suspect those who told me not to listen to the critics because they were agents of Satan, and got curious as to people who had left the church. Above all, being curious, asking "What ifs" is what saved me. I stayed curious about the world and people different from me, which made me more open to learning and resistant to fear. When you have insatiable curiosity you find fear less appealing and it becomes less effective. Curiosity is an underrated virtue.
WHAT SAVED YOU WAS CHRIST NOTHING TO SEE THIS BRAINWASH RECOGNIZE THIS
EVEN STEVE'S CELEBRATION WASHING FALLACIES COMPARE TO CHRIST'S PRESENCE IN OUR LIVES ✝😇
Evangelicalism has nothing to do with brainwashing. Maybe your parents or particular church, but not as a whole.
the church is indeed sick. however that's humans distorting who God is.
Jim Jones was an atheist and his “church” preached social justice. He followers called Jonestown a socialist paradise.
That's sad
"Lean not on your own understanding " 🤮. Whenever someone says that translate it into modern language and it becomes really obvious "Dont rely on your own mind".
Yesterday i stopped joining a "bible study" but later on i discovered they were from SHinchonji, i was about to go all in when I found videos online about and and realize that i was slowly being lured in..
Please stay away from all religion related things. It’s just a hoax/trap.
Hypnosis baby, congratulations you did good, Study the power of NLP and CBT and how those tactics were used against you, they’ll help you spot anything in everyday life outside of ppl and a great deal with them
@@xDiViNexInfectedxThe Bible leads you away from all cults. Everyone has a belief system. Latch on to something you know to be true or someone will offer you "a truth" to believe. Evolution is a cult too, based on lies. Don't pull too hard on those finger cuffs after that last statement.
This fellow gets it. Steve gets it. Thank you for speaking so clearly, Steve ! Also, I appreciate it all the more that Steve correctly condemned authoritarian political cults, in addition to pseudo-religious cults and other cults. I have thankfully never been part of a cult, I have a lifelong disgust of all cults and I have the deepest sympathies for those they abuse and manipulate.
I understand many former victims of cults, likely Steve included, might not find it easy to talk about their experience, either out of embarassment ("How did they trick me ?") or out of fear (direct threats and harassment by cultists), but it's all the more important they talk about this, and society be supportive of those who tell the truth about cults and the danger they pose to individuals and all of society.
His book on political cults opened my eyes to the techniques Trump uses at his rallies.
You can't under how he uses mass hypnosis techniques to hijack the most primitive part of our primal and tribal brain.
I would say your are brainwashed if u can't explain what your are saying when asked questions about. U just repeat what u are told.
Just like a lot of democrats and republicans. Politics is a waste of time tbh.
👏👏👏 well put.
as a former member of the Moonies myself (just like Steve), this is unfortunately not a good test. most cults create detailed scripts and canned answers for 99% of most questions. cult leadership figures, especially, are great at free-styling and filling in any gaps their script might have missed.
@@FaithY3n u just explained what I said. People just repeat what they are told. That's called brainwashing. People should be able to explain with logical reasoning of what they are saying. Not just repeat what they are told.
A pretty good way to shut up dissenting voices is to demand endless explanations, interrupting with rapid fire questions, and rejecting or ignoring any and all answers with authoritative dismissal. "Spoken like a communist." "Well, that's what the lying media says." "Oh so you just believe everything you read, do you?" and the old standby: "well I don't know about that."
I wish people like him knew how unbearable it is for the minority of us to watch society circle to the toilet because people can't think for themselves.
What's crazy making is when people you love are brainwashed and say that you are brainwashed because you don't agree with them, and call others sheep, when it is them in fact who exhibits every hallmark of group think, brainwashing, blind regurgitation, confirmation bias and who does no fact checking on anything they see or hear in their bubble of reinforcement.
It's *not* "the minority of us". These folks don't gain control because they are in the majority, but because they can rile up their "in-group" to be so afraid of everyone outside the group that they will act far more extreme.. including voting (or not voting, depending on what group we're talking about here).
He does. That's why he's talking about it.
Everyone thinks they are thinking for themselves.
In my own life, I look at anyone with an "us against them" mentality (in anything) as suspicious...in my mind once you've decided the "otherside" is bad, you're too far gone to bother dealing with.
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9:20 The _BITE_ model of authoritarian control: Behavior control, Information control, Thought control, Emotional control.
9:34 A spectrum of ethical influence ranging from informed consent, "where you know up front who the people are, what they [actually] believe, and what is expected..." up to and including "deception, outright lying, withholding vital information or distorting it."
10:38 "...you're programmed, 'don't listen to the media; the media is the enemy of the people. Don't talk to apostates; they don't know anything."
SOOOoo many people who choose Political sides over families... NEED help in deprogramming their brainwashing.
Exactly, and the Trump cult has done irreparable harm in estranging family members, terminating friendships, and created a huge division within the evangelical Christian Church ITSELF
Bingo!
Yes
Thanks Steve for your help, he knows his stuff 🙂
The entire left wing is brainwashed.
Steve, how do I go about saving my wife from a MLM that's destroying our marriage and our lives? - Please help, I beg of you! 🙏
Watch TH-cams on the MLM Cult.
@@jimflagg4009 Thanks, Jim, but it seems all of these video just describe the evils that MLM's are, but none go into the psychology and protocol for helping someone to escape the clutches of these cults. Could you possibly direct me to a video that goes directly to this point? Thank You! 🙂
tell her it's "MLM's or me".
Who's money is being spent? If it is hers, fine. She can do as she wishes. If it's yours, as in you go to work to make it, stop allowing her to make the wrong choice. Stop giving her the money. If she finds other ways behind your back, sorry buds, she clearly doesn't care about you if she is willing to do that.
Try" Not the Good girl" youtube channel. She has quite a few and was in a few mlm's and finally left.
@@MaryB.333 Thank You! 🙂 I'll check it out...
I can answer that question about how do you know if you are brainwashed? You don't question authority, allegiance to blind obedience, end all critical thinking, believe the leader at the top cares about you, advocate your conscience and free will, even if it means take poison. The enemy are always those that resist of course.
Almost everyone does that, the Miligan experiments showed that. Those that don't do that, more often than not, are in fact in cults & following their indoctrination instead.
Only group that on mass were not pulled in by the Miligan experiments were Australians, but Australians have their own culture of blind allegiance to mates & believe your mates care for you & it's your duty to care for them in return, even if that harms you, look at Dawn Frazer, accepting a lifetime Olympic ban, cause she was accused of doing something one of her mates actually did & so her "cult" told her, she must therefore just cop it, not dob.
Everyone has blind allegiance to something or someone
Really? Abraham was ready & willing to MURDER his OWN son!
Is that not blind obedience?
How many articles, letters have you come across condemning such actions?
And how many articles, letters have you come across praising him for "obeying God!"?
I would guess the former is 0 and the latter is a lot!
Sounds like Jehovah's witnesses
@@ramaraksha01perhaps Abrahamic religions are high demand cults.
Thank you, they’ll have others and try to make even you believe that your a revolutionary, troublemaker, occultist, the very thing that are wrong for they’ll accuse you it’s important to know that vowels & contestants have energy, they have designed definitions. in dealing with cults understand tautology tactics/with using the same words as well as the original tactics of tautology. all occultism is narcissistic slavery designed to hunt capture and torture its victims to live a lesser life than what GOD YAH intended them to, we’re given this world we didn’t make it, as an newborn you don’t know what awaits you, ppl go their whole lives not realizing their in a matrix and than there are ones that willingly subscribe to it as a badge of honor
Love Steve Hassan. He’s so helpful to people born in high control groups
I used to be part of the Boston Church of Christ. I did learn a lot of the Bible, but my learning was "out of context" and not in the "story of the Bible.". I have learned a lot just doing my own self studying... now I do serve the Lord Jesus Christ in the Independent Sacramental Movement. Amen and Amen. Freedom in Christ!!!
Miss Monique 🙂🌷🕊️💗
Thank you so much for this.
Thank you Steve
Lots of informations and facts
Everyone has been subjected. Even when you're watching this. It's not magical or mysterious. It just is.
Thank you, Steven! You are helping us!
1:31 "He was sinless." That's a red flag. Cult leaders tend to have some trait that no reasonable human being could ever be expected to have, and this one sticks out like a sore thumb."
Yes, and when they practice rituals of eating bodies and drinking blood as in the Communion. They say this before taking Communion: "Take, EAT, this is my BODY and take, DRINK, this is my BLOOD.
Good one! I'm trying to figure out how to respond to an anti-vax indoctrinated person right now, this will work well there too, with her believing vaccines cause huge harm, but the alternative causes zero harm. I think she's too far gone to penetrate, but if there's any sanity left, she should recognise the zero harm = lie
@@mehere8038 You cannot CONvince anyone about anything. They have to come to their own conclusions.
Thank you!
You need to show this to the people of Scientology.
Check out the protests
They're gonna sue Ted 😭
@@Tiare619 I do.
This made me reflect. I had a belief that government people were better than me now I know I thought that And I know the truth Nobody is better than me at all the government is not better than me nobody on this earth is better than me I can accomplish Anything I truely desire to
All people are just people.
7:39 "...I was trained to do _Thought Stopping_ ..." to shut out external ideas thy mentally reciting: "crush Satan, crush Satan, glory to Heaven, peace on Earth..." So his Father's attempt to present facts only drove him deeper.
Exjw, also spent time in network marketing. They aren't all bad but even in decent companies anytime you have that combination of trying to motivate a large number of people there's a human tendency to slide into tactics that border on cult techniques. It's vital that people are educated so that they can realize when they're free thinking is being techniqued away from them. Thank you for what you do.
Brilliant explanation.
I SCAPED FROM JEHOVAHS WITNESS
Trust the science. I am science.
Don’t wear masks. Wear two mask. Masks don’t work.
that was interesting!
Great speech
Before taking a hard stance on anything I study both sides until I see the points made on each side . I measure my decisions properly
Steve❤️
2nd gen moonie here, finding it hard to leave when it’s all I’ve ever known. Thank you for sharing this info and making a difference
@alisaohhh hugs❤
I love this video. Thanks, Steve.
1:03 "Yes, I grew up 1.3 miles from Cult 45... D.T." Had to think that through.
Could you explain that to me, please?
@@adrianajs8520 Donald Trump 45 th President of USA
@@gigiarmany4332 🤦Thank you!
@@adrianajs8520it’s also a play on words, “Colt .45” is a gun
TEDx checks all of the boxes. It used to be a forum but it has become a sermon.
I lost my gf to a Christian cult and she left me. She is now against her family and their religion. She hates everyone who are asking her to rethink and calling everyone satan. She always wanted to be a singer but now ended up in a church singing jingles. How can i save her she stopped talking to me coz she will not listen to me at all. From being someone sharing everything with me to someone who doesn't even remember me
I love him!!!!
“Inculcation” is the act of being constantly reinforced with the exact same theme, phrase or words; ad nauseam
Like "safe and effective"
Like "it's a pandemic of the unvaccinated!"?
Beautiful video 👏🏽
I would say one of my most deep seated fears is being under the influence of another party.
Does anyone else think are American educational system is a bit like a cult?!🧐
No.
US Universities get about $1T per year in endowments from the globalist elite$
To continue to receive that money, they are required to push all kinds of indoctrination.
100%
Or.... it's those against the educational system that is the cult.
Here because I've noticed the same thought patterns in TH-cam comments people all going for one video to another to get to the same endpoint like stuck in a loop maybe I'm being paranoid but crazy coincidence seeing 50 people with the exact same mindset but made me feel trapped
TH-cam algorithm keeps people stuck in a loop and that is really dangerous if your watching videos that just validate your stance on a subject but their stance is wrong. Alot of people just repeat what they are told then when asked to explain what they are saying they never can. I have conversations with people daily who make statements then when I ask a question they can't answer it.
I believe being brainwashed is people just repeating what they are told and can't explain why they are saying it. It always seems to be democrats. I'm never against the person. I'm against their stance on a subject. They always attack me and my character while I debate their reasoning. They can never explain the statements they have made. They just repeat what they are told.
you're not crazy or paranoid, that is exactly what the doc Social Dilemma is about. cult recruitment and political radicalization via social media is very real, and very dangerous!
You do realize we don't all get to the same endpoint, right?
@@SolidSiren Maybe that's the problem. We're too busy fighting with each other over different viewpoints to have an open mind and consider that the other person is right.
Robot, I don't think all of the comments are from real people.
Critical Thinking has been under attack for quite some time. Kinda applies to the education system too.
This is very interesting to me because I have noticed there is two type of a brainwashed people, one are like super democratic and others republican and they call each other brainwashed. 😂😂
right I feel like im in the twilight zone lol
Both sides are exactly like that spiderman meme pointing at each other 🤣
One tactic that I've seen these mind controllers or cults use is massage. I believe that these covert hypnotic scripts are induced into the person is by getting them extremely relaxed with light touch massage. They will often run their knuckles up and down your spine which will create a state of complete bliss, relaxation, and trance. This is called the "autonomous sensory meridian response." I had this happen many times, just before strange or weird events would happen. Often I would experience things such as "street theatre." It was like I was being led by hypnosis or some sort of mind control to see this street theatre, but I could not understand what I was supposed to get from seeing this nonsense.
I would be very cautious about letting somebody do this. This seems to open up your brain in a way so it can be exploited.
I've never seen this happen
Thanks for sharing the BITE model!!!
Everyone is
Religion has done so much damage driving us away from being spiritual n we r made to pay 4 it . Offerings
that's why I limited my donations when visiting temples here in Thailand. They just pock most of it. Not all, but ya. Life.
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I think everyone is programmed to think the way someone else wants you to think, beginning in childhood.
I'm currently disconnecting from technology and cancelled my FB account... My 8 yr old grandson wanted to show me how the VR goggle-y headset thing works and I wouldn't do it.... yep a true generation gap. I'll keep my retinas to myself thankyou🙃
I had a friend who fell in with a guy who was selling supplements. Within 2 weeks of meeting her, he was living at her house and setting up "parties" to introduce his product line. I was skeptical, but went to one of the parties. After his presentation-which seem innocuous enough-I innocently asked him how he got interested in health and wellness. Most people love to talk about themselves and their interests, but this guy immediately got defensive and angry. He shot back at me, "what do you mean, how did I get into this??" and walked away. It was so bizarre that I knew for sure he was deliberately scamming her. Healthy, on-the-level people don't need to lie and exaggerate. They don't mind answering followup questions and will readily share specific data or sources of information that help prove their position. Normal, innocent people want to have their day in court to justify their innocence. Healthy people will gladly state their goals and preferences because they want to be understood. When someone doesn't do these, or starts talking fast, bouncing between points, changing the subject... then DO NOT trust them.
4:03 "So, I was away from the constant indoctrination. ... I called my Sister... I actually _broke a rule..._ " Not allowed to contact certain people.
Yes, it is a cult if they tell the members to shun certain other people.
@@anonymousjohnson976 Yeah. This video gave me a reason to start a new list of easily identifiable cult traits, and that's the one that went on the list first. ~~~ Years ago, a woman gave me a theoretical article on what constituted a cult. She wanted me to testify against her husband in their divorce on the claim that he was a cult leader. So, I asked a lawyer if there was a legal definition of what constituted a cult. The lawyer said there was no such definition. ~~~ Now consider the role of lawyers in the fact that Shelly Miscavige has not been seen in public since about 2006. I'm open to suggestions on how that should show up on this new list.
I hate to say it but we are all brainwashed to a certain extent. We accept realities that suit us. And over time we exchange those views for new chains.
Selfless servitude is freedom. God loves you
Came right to the comments
He's been so thoroughly brainwashed he doesn't realise it.
Hahah I was thinking the same thing! This guy is the worst type of brainwashed, he's the type of person who thinks he has woken from a dream, never knowing that he's still asleep.
Question everything and challenge your ideals.
8:27 - Reality Testing strategy
This information applies to Mormonism/The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints!! I got out and I am grateful everyday!!
When one pays for goods at a till when shopping,and walks away without the goods.Continually.
I used to be a part of a Lestadian (Christian sector), and I was raised in that group since I was a baby, every Sunday listening to the brainwashing. Curiosity and friendship with different people or their ways are really the only ways out. Learning about atheists and evolution and the scientific principles as well as cognitive bias were, as well as enjoying "sins" such as listening to pop music, were at the back of me getting out, and the final straw was when I saw Ricky Gervais say "Every one is born under the right God, isn't it lucky? Always the right God" XD on youtube.
Then if you think atheist is a cult am sorry😂...it's all about free thinking
1980’s “cult” sanity: weekly group meditation, $1,@Columbia U chapel. 2 Vipassana 10day retreats, 2 Scibot courses. No religious authoritarian bs.
What I’m trying to undo is part of a really weird story. I put a little bit farther down so you can choose with her or not to read it.
Thank you for reading.
So I’ve never been religious, but over the last year and a bit, I have developed an interest/growing obsession with the concept of religion. So I start watching more and more videos of crazy religious claims and debunking them. Here’s the stinker. Whenever I run into a claim I can’t debunk, I get really anxious and I start to get scared of the concept of a god without actually believing in one. Long story short, I’ve only recently found out I’m BRAINWASHING/INDOCTRINATING MY OWN SELF! It’s terrifying! Hopefully this can start to help me 💙
If someone tells you the only way to live life is to work for someone else. Theyre branwashing you
When you're religious is when you know
On this topic and to learn more type in the following 3 word title….High control groups
I lost a good friend to Qanon. I don’t know how to try and get her back, or if that’s even possible.
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A source does not have to lie to brainwash. The information given can be completely true but partial.
This is the primary type that I have trouble with.
It is impossible to disprove and perspective cannot be gained unless it is researched independently.
If a nonbias or alternative perspective is not given within the first page of a Google search, people who are not knowledgeable will accept and often defend perspectives they should not.
Critical thinking has become rare.
Other popular types are
authoritative and
Group /identity conformity.
Combine these and it is likely to succeed for the majority.
even my biological father used brainwashing technique to paint my mother and grandmother a villain.
people dont know how bad it is or common
But unfortunately, perception is reality. Imagine confronting someone -who you are convinced of being brainwashed, but multiplied by the complexity of them, having the same opinion of you… there are so many angles one could take, for example - the power trip you must feel when you keep getting degrees in things that are ultimately nonsense, changing nothing other than your own inflated self ego, speaking from “authority” and superiority to others. And Action! Puppets!
That "someone" is doing the typical deflection, that your pointing out they are brainwashed means you must be instead. It causes confusion and wondering how to reach the brainwashed person. In this case, Steve's family told him directly he was brainwashed (and they were right), but he thought they didn't "get it." But he was the one following someone in a position of authority. Not his family. However, sometimes whole families are simply in different cults, but don't recognize it. You can see, the Catholic church claimed you were sinning if you didn't attend their church every Sunday. That is a cult. Anything, with anyone in authority - no matter how "good" they profess to be, that makes you feel less, is an authority figure and is brainwashing you into submission. True spirituality loves you for who you are, even if you're doing harmful things to yourself. They don't try to force anything on you. You don't need an official church or political party or whatever to tell you you're worthy of punishment if you don't listen to them. Or make you feel bad for being "disloyal." If a parent is in a cult, and their kids join different cults, they have given the example that you should follow an authority. So they can't blame their own kids for trying to find their own path. It's a pretty deep issue, that spans generations in families. What is it to be free of authority? I broke out of all of it myself. I broke a cycle of abuse that had been going on with the women of my family for generations.
@@PeaceOutWorld so what’s the name of your current cult?
@@19derrick77 if you aren't clear about the issue, you can read my response above
Amazing that you survived MK Ultra mind controlling techniques and the 'Moonies' - thank you.
12 step groups!
Twelve step programs are not a cult at all.
I love being brainwashed. I feel so protected and safe.
But it blocks your brain to reach its full potential
But you are fulfilling someone else's work which isn't mostly a noble work.
I was brainwashed into Christianity. It gave me ptsd. Cults are harming troll.
Feelings are dangerous. “Burning in the bosom” is something I feel when I watch a rom com. It feels strikingly similar to the feeling when asked to pray to God to know if a prophet or church or book is true. Confirmation bias largely.
@@OnceTheyNamedMeiWasntby just saying Christ you are brainwashed...
Remember, the status quo is also one of these cults. And when you try to rebel against/escape from the status quo, there’s a bunch of other mind control cults waiting for you around that corner too. See what I just did there? Stay vigilant.
1:53 "...reciting a pledge to fight with my life or kill... for Korea."
7:38 "...I was trained to do thought stopping, which is a cognitive behavioral technique. 'Crush Satan, crush Satan. Glory to Heaven, peace on Earth. Glory to Heaven, peace on Earth...'"
3:30 note that it was the cult that deliberately deprived him of sleep, not his father.
It's a pity that he only talks about his own extreme experiences. He doesn't address the question in his title. He's right about how internet connections can be used to poison people's minds, though.
"Trust the experts! Trust the Science! Follow the Paradigm! Don't pay attention to that contrary evidence. Follow the leaders! Don't question them. Especially don't question the status quo."
Promise you the more someone thinks they are right and never self examine, the more likely they are in a cult. Either a secular huaminst cult(the most ironic one that is ignored), religious or political.
2:52 "When Moon said we were all going to The Capital to fast for three days for _Nixon..._ because _God_ wants him to be president... ... despite _Watergate..._ [His Father] said: 'Steve, you were right; he's a crook.'"
Interesting that cult leaders support getting authoritarian presidents elected... ... when they seek to amend _The Constitution,_ and destroy Democracy.
Bravo. How can I help?
I don't really have a mental illness. My mum just snapped and tried to kill me and had me locked in a psych unit at 18 because I had chronic fatigue syndrome from drinking unsafe water. She didn't like that I couldn't move out of bed for 6 weeks in her house (2.5 years of sleep in total). The medication made me hallucinate, I was homeless and she'd swapped my medication for fake medication.
Has anyone known someone that has gotten out of the John de Ruiter cult in Edmonton Alberta?
omg QC alumni!
Thank you for BITE model Dr. Hassan
I’m being gangstalked across america thousands of strangers monitoring and torturing me constantly
Due to your political savvy the only thing I question is your intelligence
My friends and family were part of the scheme I got tricked into