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Cults Inside Out: How People Get in and Can Get Out

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by Rick Alan Ross


  740 J. P. Green et al., “Forging Ahead: The 2003 APA Division 30 Definition of Hypnosis,” International Journal of Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis 53 (2005): 259–264.

  741 Robert Jay Lifton, “Cult Formation,” Harvard Mental Health Letter, February 1981.

  742 Ibid.

  743 Margaret Singer, Cults in Our Midst (San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass, 1996).

  744 Richard Ofshe, “Coercive Persuasion and Attitude Change,” Encyclopedia of Sociology, vol. 1 (New York: McMillan, 1992), 212–224.

  745 Robert B. Cialdini, Influence: Science and Practice (Needham Heights, MA: Allyn & Bacon, 2001).

  746 Robert Jay Lifton, Thought Reform and the Psychology of Totalism (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2012), 419–437.

  747 Singer, Cults in Our Midst, 58–59.

  748 Edgar H. Schein, Coercive Persuasion: A Socio-psychological Analysis of the “Brainwashing” of American Civilian Prisoners by the Chinese Communists (New York: W. W. Norton, 1971).

  749 “Captive Minds: Hypnosis and Beyond.” Documentary. Directed by Pierre Lasry. Montreal: National Film Board of Canada, 1983. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mQC0nFfp2nc&index=1&list=PL2D64B3CB3D593ACF (accessed May 22, 2014).

  750 Cialdini, Influence: Science and Practice.

  751 Ibid.,. 29.

  752 Ibid., 66.

  753 Ibid., 117.

  754 Singer, Cults in Our Midst, 170.

  755 Cialdini, Influence: Science and Practice, 163.

  756 Ibid., 210.

  757 Ibid., 248.

  758 Betty Fletcher, “Rev. Moon to Serve Jail Time,” Pantagraph (Bloomington, IL), May 14, 1984.

  759 Victor Dricks, “Immortality Group Fights On,” Phoenix Gazette, January 27, 1994.

  760 Laurie Goodstein, “Murder and Suicide Reviving Claims of Child Abuse in Cult,” New York Times, January 15, 2005.

  761 Paul Vallely and Clifford Coonan, “China’s Enemy Within: The Story of Falun Gong,” The Independent (London), April 22, 2006.

  762 “My Name Is Jesus and I’m Serious: Cult Leader Claims to Be Jesus and His Partner Says She’s Mary Magdalene,” Daily Mail (London), May 18, 2011.

  763 Andrew Horansky, “Houston Father Says He Lost Family to Dangerous Cult,” KHOU 11 News, (Houston, TX), February 16, 2013.

  764 Matt. 24:5 (King James Version).

  765 Matt. 7:15 (KJV).

  766 Matt. 7:16 (KJV)

  767 Flo Conway and Jim Siegelman, Snapping: America’s Epidemic of Sudden Personality Change, 2nd ed. (New York: Stillpoint Press, 2005), 62.

  768 Robert Jay Lifton, “Cult Formation,” Harvard Mental Health Letter, February 1981.

  769 Ibid.

  770 Robert Jay Lifton, Thought Reform and the Psychology of Totalism (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2012), 4429.

  771 Conway and Siegelman, Snapping: America’s Epidemic of Sudden Personality Change, 59.

  772 Ibid., 60.

  773 Flo Conway and Jim Siegelman, Holy Terror (New York: Delta, 1984), 252.

  774 Ibid., 253.

  775 Ibid., 252.

  776 Titus 2:11 (New International Version).

  777 Conway and Siegelman, Snapping: America’s Epidemic of Sudden Personality Change, 62.

  778 Ibid.

  779 Ibid.

  780 Lifton, Thought Reform and the Psychology of Totalism, 419–437.

  781 Ibid., 422.

  782 Bob Mims. “Falun Dafa Practitioners Join Millions,” Salt Lake Tribune, June 12, 1999.

  783 Jeremy Page, “Survivors Say China Falun Gong Immolations Real,” Reuters, April 4, 2002.

  784 Ibid.

  785 Ibid.

  786 Paul Vallely and Clifford Coonan, “China’s Enemy Within: The Story of Falun Gong,” The Independent (London), April 22, 2006.

  787 Vallely and Coonan, “China’s Enemy Within: The Story of Falun Gong.”

  788 Peter Carlson, “For Whom the Gong Tolls,” Washington Post, February 27, 2000.

  789 Ibid.

  790 Ibid.

  791 Vallely and Coonan, “China’s Enemy Within: The Story of Falun Gong.”

  792 Joel P. Engardio, “Spiritual Cultivation,” Los Angeles New Times, March 23–29, 2000.

  793 Guy S. Alitto, “Falun Gong: What Is Old and What is New?” (lecture, International Symposium of Cultic Studies at Assumption University, Thailand, December 15–16, 2011), 54–55.

  794 Ibid., 57.

  795 Carlson, “For Whom the Gong Tolls.”

  796 Udo Schuklenk, “Ethical Issues in Societal Interactions with Destructive Cults—Falun Gong and Church of Scientology” (lecture, International Symposium of Cultic Studies at Assumption University, Thailand, December 15–16, 2011), 159.

  797 Ibid.

  798 Jeremy Paige, “China Nabs Falun Gong Members for State TV Protest,” Reuters, April 2, 2002.

  799 Alexander L. Dvorkin, “Falun Gong as a Healing Cult” (lecture, International Symposium of Cultic Studies at Assumption University, Thailand, December 15–16, 2011).

  800 Rick A. Ross, “Li Hongzhi and His PR Machine,” CultNews, January 29, 2006, http://www.cultnews.com/2006/01/li-hongzhi-and-his-pr-machine/ (accessed May 28, 2014).

  801 Don Lattin, “Falun Gong Derided as Authoritarian Sect by Anti-Cult Experts in Seattle,” San Francisco Chronicle, April 29, 2000.

  802 Margaret Singer, Cults in Our Midst (San Francisco, C CA: Jossey-Bass, 1996), 8.

  803 Ibid., 9.

  804 Flo Conway and Jim Siegelman, Snapping: America’s Epidemic of Sudden Personality Change, 2nd ed. (New York: Stillpoint Press, 2005), 153–154.

  805 Sarah Lubman, “A Chinese Battle on U.S. Soil,” San Jose Mercury News, December 23, 2001.

  806 Ibid.

  807 Ross, “Li Hongzhi and His PR Machine.”

  808 Lubman, “A Chinese Battle on U.S. Soil.”

  809 Matthew S. Bajko, “Supes Support ‘Homophobic Cult,’” Bay Area Reporter, (San Francisco), February 2, 2006.

  810 Ibid.

  811 Ross, “Li Hongzhi and His PR Machine.”

  812 Vallely and Coonan, “China’s Enemy Within: The Story of Falun Gong.”

  813 Mark Jurkowitz, “Times of Change,” Boston Globe, May 31, 2005.

  814 Dianne Hartman, “Ties to Falun Gong Add Controversy to Chinese New Year Spectacular,” Los Angeles Times, January 7, 2008.

  815 Vallely and Coonan, “China’s Enemy Within: The Story of Falun Gong.”

  816 Ibid.

  817 Ibid.

  818 “Statement by the Epoch Times on the Events at the White House,” April 20, 2006, http://www.theepochtimes.com/news/6-4-20/40651.html (accessed May 28, 2014.

  819 Le Tian, “China’s Organ Supply Questioned as Transplants Soar,” China Daily, (Beijing), April 13, 2006.

  820 Glen McGregor, “Former MP Pushes for Beijing Games Boycott,” Ottawa Citizen, August 9, 2007.

  821 “Cult Members Arrested over Torture Pics,” Xinhua News Agency, (China), June 4, 2013.

  822 Emma Brown, “Sun Myung Moon Dies at 92; Washington Times Owner Led the Unification Church,” Washington Post, September 2, 2012.

  823 Sarah Crompton, “Shen Yun: Propaganda as Entertainment,” The Telegraph (Kent), February 25, 2008.

  824 Colin Dabkowski, “Played for Fools, by ‘Shen Yun’ Spectacle Is Nothing More Than Hype and Propaganda,” Buffalo (NY) News, May 28, 2010.

  825 “Falun Gong, Chamber Square Off over Chinese Parade,” KGO-TV News, (San Francisco), January 31, 2006.

  826 Justin Jouvenal, “Falun Gong Debate Hits Chinese New Year Parade,” San Francisco Examiner, January 6, 2006.

  827 Vanessa Hua, “Falun Gong Dispute Hangs over S.F. Chinese Parade,” San Francisco Chronicle, January 30, 2006.

  828 Ibid.

  829 Colin Moynihan and Cara Buckley, “Falun Gong Marchers Are Jeered in Chinatown,” New York Times, May 26, 2008.

  830 Samuel Luo, “Falun Gong: Homophobic Mind Control Cult,” San Francisco Sentinel, Jan
uary 27, 2006.

  831 “Falun Gong Sues over Protest Restriction,” Sydney Morning Herald, January 30, 2006.

  832 Page, “Survivors Say China Falun Gong Immolations Real.”

  833 Don Lattin, “Falun Gong Derided as Authoritarian Sect by Anti-Cult Experts in Seattle,” San Francisco Chronicle, April 29, 2000.

  834 Christian D. Von Dehsen and Scott L. Harris, Lives and Legacies: Philosophers and Religious Leaders (Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1999), 95.

  835 Ibid.

  836 M. Avrum Ehrlich, The Messiah of Brooklyn: Understanding Labavitch Hasidism Past and Present (Jersey City NJ: KTAV Publishing House, 2004), 78.

  837 Rachel Altein, Out of the Inferno: The Efforts That Led to the Rescue of Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak Schneersohn of Lubavitch from War-Torn Europe in 1939–40 (Brooklyn, NY: Merkos L’Inyonei Chinuch, 2002), 270.

  838 Liz Leyden, “5 Years after Death, Messiah Question Divides Lubavitch,” Washington Post, June 20, 1999.

  839 Ibid.

  840 George Robinson, Essential Judaism: A Complete Guide to Beliefs, Customs and Rituals (New York: Atria Books, 2001), 200.

  841 Robert Jay Lifton, “Cult Formation,” Harvard Mental Health Letter, February 1981.

  842 Ibid.

  843 “China’s Enemy Within: The Story of Falun Gong,” The Independent (London), April 22, 2006.

  844 Peter Carlson, “For Whom the Gong Tolls,” Washington Post, February 27, 2000.

  845 Ibid.

  846 Ibid.

  847 Jeremy Page, “China Nabs Falun Gong Members for State TV Protest,” Reuters, April 2, 2002.

  848 Jeremy Page, “Survivors Say China Falun Gong Immolations Real,” Reuters, April 4, 2002.

  849 Lifton, “Cult Formation.”

  850 Robert Jay Lifton, Thought Reform and the Psychology of Totalism (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2012), 419–437.

  851 Ibid., 422.

  852 Alexander L. Dvorkin, “Falun Gong as a Healing Cult” (lecture, International Symposium of Cultic Studies at Assumption University, Thailand, December 15–16, 2011).

  853 Sarah Lubman, “A Chinese Battle on U.S. Soil,” San Jose Mercury News, December 23, 2001.

  854 Ibid.

  855 Exod. 20:8–11 (Hebrew Scriptures or Holy Bible).

  856 Exod. 20:3–6 (Hebrew Scriptures or Holy Bible).

  857 Colin Rigley, “L. Ron Hubbard’s Last Refuge,” New Times (San Luis Obispo, CA), May 28, 2009.

  858 Ibid.

  859 Ruth Eglash, “Who Was L. Ron Hubbard?” The Jerusalem Post, December 7, 2006.

  860 Joseph Mallia, “Judge Found Hubbard Lied about Achievements,” Boston Herald, March 1, 1998.

  861 Michael Crowley, “L. Ron Hubbard,” Slate, July 15, 2005.

  862 Ibid.

  863 Ibid.

  864 “Interview with L. Ron Hubbard Jr.,” Penthouse, June 1983.

  865 Ibid.

  866 Ibid.

  867 L. Ron Hubbard, Operation Thetan (OT) Level III. (L. Ron Hubbard’s handwritten version is available through the Web) http://www.american-buddha.com/scientologyNEW0T3.pdf (accessed May 28, 2014).

  868 Lawrence Wright, “The Apostate: Paul Haggis vs. the Church of Scientology,” New Yorker, February 14, 2011.

  869 Ibid.

  870 Rich Behar, “Scientology: The Cult of Greed,” Time, May 6, 1991.

  871 Mallia, “Judge Found Hubbard Lied about Achievements.”

  872 Janet Reitman, “Inside Scientology,” Rolling Stone, February 23, 2006.

  873 “Lisa McPherson Case: Events Leading to the Death of Scientologist Lisa McPherson,” St. Petersburg Times, May 21, 2009.

  874 Ibid.

  875 Ibid.

  876 Ibid.

  877 Ibid.

  878 Ibid.

  879 Ibid.

  880 Ibid.

  881 “Lisa McPherson Scientology Case Drove Joan Wood from Medical Examiner to Recluse,” St. Petersburg Times, July 30 2011.

  882 Ibid.

  883 “Lisa McPherson Case: Events Leading to the Death of Scientologist Lisa McPherson.”

  884 Ibid.

  885 David Touretzsky and Peter Alexander, “A Church’s Lethal Contract,” Razor Magazine, December 2003.

  886 “Lisa McPherson Case: Events Leading to the Death of Scientologist Lisa McPherson.”

  887 Joe Childs and Thomas C. Tobin, “In Letter, Former Scientology Leader Debbie Cook Renews Concerns about Church Fund-Raising,” Tampa Bay Times, January 7, 2012.

  888 Ibid.

  889 Ibid.

  890 Thomas C. Tobin, “The Man behind Scientology,” St. Petersburg Times, October 25, 1998.

  891 Ibid.

  892 Ibid.

  893 Ibid.

  894 Rich Behar, “The Thriving Cult of Greed and Power,” Time, May 6, 1991.

  895 Tobin, “The Man behind Scientology.”

  896 Ibid.

  897 Joe Childs and Thomas C. Tobin, “Ex-Scientology Leader Debbie Cook Tells of Fear and Pursuit by Church Officers,” Tampa Bay Times, March 7, 2012.

  898 Joe Childs and Thomas C. Tobin, “Ex-Clearwater Scientology Officer Says She Was Put in ‘the Hole,’ Abused for Weeks,” Tampa Bay Times, February 10, 2012.

  899 Ibid.

  900 Childs and Tobin, “Ex-Scientology Leader Debbie Cook Tells of Fear and Pursuit by Church Officers.”

  901 Joe Childs and Thomas C. Tobin, “Former Clearwater Scientology Leader Settles Lawsuit with Church,” Tampa Bay Times, April 24, 2012.

  902 Ibid.

  903 Joe Childs and Thomas C. Tobin, “Ex-Scientology Leader Debbie Cook Moving to Caribbean Island,” Tampa Bay Times, June 20, 2012.

  904 Joe Childs and Thomas C. Tobin, “Strength in Their Numbers,” St. Petersburg Times, August 1, 2009.

  905 Joe Childs and Thomas C. Tobin, “Scientology Response to Church Defectors: ‘Total Lies,’” St. Petersburg Times, June 20, 2009.

  906 Wright, “The Apostate: Paul Haggis vs. the Church of Scientology.”

  907 Lawrence Wright, Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief (New York: Random House Audio, unabridged edition, January 17, 2013).

  908 Jenna Miscavige Hill and Lisa Pulitzer, Beyond Belief: My Secret Life inside Scientology and My Harrowing Escape (New York: William Morrow, 2013).

  909 Matt Blake, “Scientology Leader’s Niece to Reveal ‘Strange and Disturbing’ Details about Life inside Church in Tell-All Memoir,” Daily Mail (London), September 25, 2012.

  910 Ibid.

  911 Piya Sinha-Roy, “Holmes Faces Cruise, Scientology in Fight for Suri,” Reuters, July 2, 2012.

  912 Sheila Marikar, “Katie Holmes, Tom Cruise Settle Divorce,” Good Morning America, ABC, July 9, 2012.

  913 “Tom Cruise’s Cheap Divorce: Katie Holmes Receives Just $400,000 a Year in Child Support from Multi-millionaire Ex-husband,” Daily Mail (London), August 24, 2012.

  914 Tom Hicks, “Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes Divorce Settlement Leaks,” Contra Costa Times, August 24, 2012.

  915 “Is the Narconon Drug Treatment Program a Scientology Front?” WTSP-TV 10 News, February 8, 2013.

  916 Ibid.

  917 John DeSio, “The Rundown on Scientology’s Purification Rundown,” New York Press, May 30, 2007.

  918 “Is the Narconon Drug Treatment Program a Scientology Front?”

  919 Michelle O’Donnell, “Scientologists Treatments Lure Firefighters,” New York Times, October 4, 2003.

  920 Nanette Asimov, “Narconon Banned from S.F. Schools,” San Francisco Chronicle, August 25, 2004.

  921 Nanette Asimov, “Doctors Back Schools Dropping Flawed Antidrug Program,” San Francisco Chronicle, March 27, 2005.

  922 Jeanne LeFlore, “Narconon Arrowhead: Five Lawsuits Filed Allege Fraud and Deceit and Other Charges,” McAlester News-Capital, March 28, 2013.

  923 Ann Schecter, “Scientology-Linked Rehab Narconon under Fire from Two Former Executives,” Rock Center NBC News, April 4, 2013.

  924 Christian Boone, “S
earch Warrants Executed at Narconon Rehab Clinic,” Atlanta Journal-Constitution, April 26, 2013.

  925 Jodie Fleischer, “Families Say Rehabilitation Clinic Opened Credit Cards without Permission,” WSBTV-News, May 6, 2013.

  926 Steve Cannane, “Scientology Membership in Drastic Decline,” Australian Broadcast Corporation, June 29, 2012.

  927 Tony Ortega, “Scientologists: How Many of Them Are There Anyway?” Village Voice, July 4, 2011.

  928 Tony Ortega, “Scientology Cruise Ship as Hellhole: The Ramona DienesBrowning Story,” Village Voice, December 4, 2011.

  929 Douglas Frantz, “Celebrity Faithful Strive to Put Halo atop Organization,” San Diego Union-Tribune, February 15, 1998.

  930 Joseph Mallia, “Inside the Church of Scientology,” Boston Herald, March 1, 1998.

  931 Ibid.

  932 Robert Jay Lifton, “Cult Formation,” Harvard Mental Health Letter, February 1981.

  933 Jamie Doward, “David Miscavige: A Cult Figure in the Fame Game,” The Guardian (New York), July 7, 2012.

  934 Ibid.

  935 Joseph Mallia, “Judge Found Hubbard Lied about Achievements,” Boston Herald, March 1, 1998.

  936 Robert Jay Lifton, Thought Reform and the Psychology of Totalism (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2012), 419–437.

  937 Ibid., 420–422.

  938 Margaret Singer, Cults in Our Midst (San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass, 1996), 63.

  939 Ibid.

  940 Richard Ofshe, “Coercive Persuasion and Attitude Change,” Encyclopedia of Sociology, vol. 1 (New York: McMillan, 1992), 212–224.

  941 Ibid.

  942 Robert B. Cialdini, Influence: Science and Practice (Needham Heights, MA: Allyn & Bacon, 2001).

  943 Singer, Cults in Our Midst, 169.

  944 Cialdini, Influence: Science and Practice, 117.

  945 Ibid.

  946 Ofshe, “Coercive Persuasion and Attitude Change,” 212–224.

  947 Lifton, Thought Reform and the Psychology of Totalism, 420–423.

  948 Mark Pilkington, “Clear Thinking,” The Guardian (New York), February 17, 2005.

  949 Ibid.

  950 Lifton, Thought Reform and the Psychology of Totalism, 422.

  951 Ofshe, “Coercive Persuasion and Attitude Change,” 212–224.

  952 Singer, Cults in Our Midst, 63.

  953 Lawrence Wright, “The Apostate: Paul Haggis vs. the Church of Scientology,” New Yorker, February 14, 2011.

 

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