"The easy ideas to complex questions are very appealing when you are emotionally vulnerable."
How Cults Rewire the Brain https://www.ted.com/talks/ex_moonie_diane_benscoter_how_cults_think
Former Unification Church cult member Diane Benscoter provides an introduction to cult-think. She was a Moonie in the second half of the 1970s. By coincidence, I knew someone who was swept up by this toxic group at the same time Diane was, and was utterly dumbfounded by Alison's conversion.
In her short TED talk, Diane presents some possibilities of what takes place in the brains of cult members, such as the use of circular logic and the introduction of a viral memetic infection. Breaking free is possible.
Needless to say much of what Diane is revealing can easily be applied to those who are immersed in Chuck and Lency Spezzano's Psychology of Vision for-profit corporation and personality cult closed kingdom. I can think of several victims of Psychology of Vision who needed some professional exit counseling but such specialized services are difficult to locate.
Here are some other links worth exploring related to her talk:
What is a Viral Memetic Infection? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U8icUtE5hJc
What Life Is Like After Leaving One of the Most Notorious Cults in the World https://broadly.vice.com/en_us/article/8xvax3/what-life-is-like-after-leaving-one-of-the-most-notorious-cults-in-the-world
Circular Reasoning, from RationalWiki https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Circular_reasoning
3 comments:
Thank you for your courage, Diane.
In her "downloading" "joining" sessions Lency herself has talked about how the POV cult is aiming for a neural reset, and Chuck has given one talk about "embedded" commands. Dangerous stuff for two unqualified amateurs like the Spezzanos to be messing with especially since they are unlicensed and unaccountable to anyone. They only want your money.
Actualy, Diane used illegal practices of kindapping, after someone used same illegal practices against her to get her out of what she calls a cult. She reidentified with her kindappers and received their job. Is she still under Stockholm syndrome? I vote yes... as she is still doing almost the same, just, for some reasons, currently not illegaly. It becomes her business, source of her income. Even today, when she publicly speaks about that period, she shows a lot of emotions, sign, that it is not closed, solved, balanced. Pitifull person. Even today she uses argumentation fauls as comparing some harmles church to islamic attacks. Do not be fooled, by those tricks, do not eat her's personal vendetta.
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