"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
