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