DESTRUCTIVE CULTS - WHAT ARE THE DANGERS?

Our most valuable resource – our youth – are at risk from destructive political cults -  yet what is being done to investigate these schools of danger?

UNLESS PARENTS, TEACHERS AND STUDENTS LEARN TO SEE THE WARNING SIGNS MANY MORE YOUNG LIVES CAN BE LOST.

See Ian Howarth: “ Exploding the Myths” from where we quote:

  1. People don’t join cults. They are recruited.
    People are recruited by a method not a message
  1. People stay in cults, because psychological coercion holds them there.
  1. Cults intend to retain a hold on people for life, or for as long as they are valuable to the cult
  1. Normal people from normal families are recruited into cults.
  1. Cults should be blamed for the problems caused, not the individual members, (blame the victim syndrome) It can happen to anyone.
  1. Cult members are sincere.(sincere victims but sincere)
  1. Cult members are victims and need to be treated with love. They are people who need help, not hostility.
  1. Cults recruit people of all ages, Not just young people.
  1. Cult recruiters are rarely visually identifiable. They usually look like quite normal people who appear to be very friendly.
  1. Anyone can become a victim of cult techniques of psychological coercion. However, the safest people are those who know how to recognise a cult
  1. Accurate information on cults is not best obtained by trying to infiltrate a cult. IT IS FAR TOO DANGEROUS