Combating Cult Mind Control The Guide to Protection, Rescue and Recovery from Destructive Cults

I learned about this through a book called Combating Cult Mind Control, which explains very specifically how you get indoctrinated.

Since there are so many different types of mind control cults, it would be impossible to describe the beliefs and practices of each one, or even each type. The best way to learn about a specific group is to locate a former member or a former member's written or video account. Ex-members are a great source of information.

In the past decade, the destructive cult phenomenon has mushroomed into a problem of tremendous social and political importance. It is estimated that there are now over 3,000 destructive cults in the United States, directly affecting more than 3 million people.

Why is there so much complacency about the threat of mind control cults?

Cults are not new. Throughout history, groups of enthusiasts have sprung up around charismatic leaders of every possible description. But in recent decades, something has been added--the systematic use of modern psychological techniques to reduce a person's will and gain control over their thoughts, feelings, and behavior.

Over the past half-century, undue influence has become more of a science.

Since World War II, intelligence agencies around the world have been aggressively engaged in mind control research and development.

These organizations include religious cults, political cults, psychotherapy-slash-educational cults, and commercial cults.

Religious cults are best known and most notorious.

We also shared your story with Dr. Stephen Hansen, licensed mental health counselor, author of Freedom of Mind and Combating Cult Mind Control, a resident cult expert around here.

He's the author of Freedom of Mind and Combating Cult Mind Control, both great books and he's also been on the show a bunch of times.

He's the author of Freedom of Mind and combating cult mind control both great books.

Dr. Hassan is a mental health counselor who's been writing and teaching about mind control and destructive cults for over 40 years he's the author of Combating Cult Mind Control and a few other books of frequent guest on the show you've seen him come on and talk about cults mostly

I definitely start with Stephen Hassan's two books doctor Stephen Hassan's two books on this topic freedom of mind and combating cult mind control they're both fantastic reads especially for people leaving or trying to leave any kind of coercive organization

I listened to your podcast with cult expert Stephen Hassan.

I'm really sorry to hear about your situation here. You may want to check out the book Combating Cult Mind Control by Steven Hassan.

Steven Hassan outlines these in his book Combating Cult Mind Control but in short this would be things like how much profit have you been able to make?

His book Cult Mind Control so interesting it's all about the manipulative practices cults use advanced hypnosis all the way down to blackmail.

and the freedom of mine book is you know kind of the advanced stuff on how to help somebody wake up from from a mine control cult.

Well linked to that in the show notes the book was excellent and linked to your website as well thank you very much for your time I know we we did a big old interview here but it was worth it.

The book is called Cult Mind Control it's got a new book coming out we're gonna have him back on the show for that

I'm the author of Cult Mind Control, Stephen Hassan, joins us on the show to explain how cults recruit and there's a certain set of tools and deception that seem to be very pervasive here.

I'm for spirituality, I'm for growth, I'm for meditation, I'm for people practicing love and non-ego-tism like he was an egomaniac.

It's a book of listed listings of so-called mental illnesses or whatever mostly for insurance purposes, there is I was just teaching this at a human traffic and conference in Texas there is a category 300.15 that's a dissociative disorder and it explicitly talks about brainwashing thought reform coercive persuasion as in cults sex and what so what we're talking about with mind control is a creation of a pseudo-self that suppresses your real self.

I want to add a whole another dimension which I don't know if you were prepared for but it's really important two things right so there was a six-week trial that ended a few weeks ago in New York City of Keith Raniere head of a cult called NXIVM right because that podcast too convicted on all counts of conspiracy racketeering sex trafficking and voluntary servitude on and on and on two billion air airists the Bronfman's Allison Mack the actress was in that group pled guilty and Lauren Salzman excuse me Nancy Salzman Lauren's mother was trained in something called neuro linguistic programming NLP right and LP which was created by John Grinder and Richard Bandler I was actually trained in NLP in 1980 and 81 by both of them and the founders they developed that based on the work of psychiatrist Milton Erickson who was one of the MK Ultra experts that the CIA was going to to understand hypnotic techniques Tony Robbins who does a lot of large group awareness trainings is trained in NLP he doesn't use that term I apparently had a financial arrangement with Grinder and Bandler but that's what he's basically teaching and then there are websites of people who are going to teach you how to have covert hypnosis use covert hypnosis for sex.

There's different kinds of cults that you outline in the book, cult mind control that you have many books but the one I'm referring to is cult mind control and one is commercial the other religious that seems to be the one that we most normally think of political which you're doing some stuff maybe in the future that we can't talk about yet.

I'm really sorry to hear about your situation here. You may want to check out the book Combating Cult Mind Control by Steven Hassan.

If you're super close with somebody and you want to get them out of the MLM or any other cult, you ask clarifying questions. Steven Hassan outlines these in his book combating cult mind control but in short this would be things like how much profit have you been able to make?

His book Cult Mind Control so interesting it's all about the manipulative practices cults use advanced hypnosis all the way down to blackmail.

combating cult mind control is 30 years old it tells my story about the monies in depth and gives a good overview and the freedom of mine book is you know kind of the advanced stuff on how to help somebody wake up from from a mine control cult.

Well linked to that in the show notes the book was excellent and linked to your website as well thank you very much for your time I know we we did a big old interview here but it was worth it.

The book is called Cult Mind Control it's got a new book coming out we're gonna have him back on the show for that

cult expert and former cult member and author of Cult Mind Control, Stephen Hassan, joins us on the show to explain how cults recruit and there's a certain set of tools and deception that seem to be very pervasive here.

I have many books but the one I'm referring to is cult mind control and one is commercial the other religious that seems to be the one that we most normally think of political which you're doing some stuff maybe in the future that we can't talk about yet.

Unfortunately, that was a negative side effect of my book coming out is that it was teaching people how cults operate and could be used for the various purposes.

Dr. Hassan is a mental health counselor who has been writing and talking about undue influence and cults for over 40 years. He's the author of Freedom of Mind and combating cult mind control both great books.

Dr. Hassan is a mental health counselor who's been writing and teaching about mind control and destructive cults for over 40 years he's the author of Combating Cult Mind Control and a few other books of frequent guest on the show you've seen him come on and talk about cults mostly.

I do recommend reading a few books that might help. I definitely start with Stephen Hassan's two books... Combating Cult Mind Control... they're both fantastic reads, especially for people leaving or trying to leave any kind of coercive organization.

I'm really sorry to hear about your situation here. You may want to check out the book "Combating Cult Mind Control" by Steven Hassan.

Steven Hassan outlines these in his book combating cult mind control but in short this would be things like how much profit have you been able to make? Not revenue, profit, above what you've paid.

His book Cult Mind Control so interesting it's all about the manipulative practices cults use advanced hypnosis all the way down to blackmail.

and the freedom of mine book is you know kind of the advanced stuff on how to help somebody wake up from from a mine control cult.

Well linked to that in the show notes the book was excellent and linked to your website as well thank you very much for your time I know we we did a big old interview here but it was worth it.

The well is so deep on cults that you know we could be talking for we could actually have an entire show every week about cults they go so deep and I just love having Stephen Hassan on the show because he's been there it's not like some academic that is giving us advice you know based on stuff that he's read or interviews that he's done.

so thank you so much to Stephen for coming on the show this was this was so enlightening and I can use this every time I get a new friend that wants to sign up for herbal life.

And I've been interviewed about CrossFit. And I'm by the way in a book called The Cult of Mac.

And so you can go through those four areas, they overlap in some cases but you can get a pretty quick snapshot of where on the influence continuum from healthy and ethical to destructive group will be.

Most of the cults that I work with in the last 43 years after being rescued from the moon called myself were religious cults political cults there be cults cults of personality with a person controlling another person or a small group of other people.

I've seen a lot of these lately but even I've gotten sort of duped into going to what you might call a leadership class and I show up and there's nothing about leadership going on here. It's some guy from Mexico who is a charismatic speaker ripping open everyone's childhood wounds half the room's crying the other half of the room is feeling some sort of weird shame imposed on him because they showed up two minutes late.

It's what you were just describing I'm just giving you the paradigm the academic paradigm so you to become a leader first you have to take the person and destroy them bring them completely down to nothing that's the unfreezing so you can overload the person with too much information with emotionally upsetting material to all kinds of group dynamics sleep deprivation is always a typical thing is that why these things go till 2 a.m.

I'm reading about the Jews. I'm reading Mind Con.

People who've read Combating Cult Mind Control, for example, realized they were in a cult.

He wrote the book, The Cult of Trump and Combating Mind Control.