Summary of Steven Hassan's Combating Cult Mind Control

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#1 I am a therapist who helps people who have been damaged by cults. I help them start their lives over, and avoid the trauma associated with the often-illegal abduction method called deprogramming.

#2 I spoke with Bruce’s parents, who had flown to Boston from Minneapolis. They wanted to bring him back to meet with me. I asked Bruce about himself and why his parents were so concerned, and he said they had not yet told him about pledge service.

#3 It is easy to help someone who is already in a cult, but those who are being recruited are usually already under the group’s control. It is difficult to help people who have been in a cult for many years.

#4 I help people leave destructive cults, and I do this by sensitizing them to the problem of mind control or undue influence. It is difficult to help someone leave a cult, so the best way to deal with this problem is to educate people about it.

• Language: English
• Publisher: IRB Media
• Release date: Jun 6, 2022
• ISBN: 9798822532250

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Contents

Insights from Chapter 1

Insights from Chapter 2

Insights from Chapter 3

Insights from Chapter 4

Insights from Chapter 5

Insights from Chapter 6

Insights from Chapter 7

Insights from Chapter 8

Insights from Chapter 9

Insights from Chapter 10

Insights from Chapter 11

Insights from Chapter 12

Insights from Chapter 1

#1

I am a therapist who helps people who have been damaged by cults. I help them start their lives over, and avoid the trauma associated with the often-illegal abduction method called deprogramming.

#2

I spoke with Bruce’s parents, who had flown to Boston from Minneapolis. They wanted to bring him back to meet with me. I asked Bruce about himself and why his parents were so concerned, and he said they had not yet told him about pledge service.

#3

It is easy to help someone who is already in a cult, but those who are being recruited are usually already under the group’s control. It is difficult to help people who have been in a cult for many years.

#4

I help people leave destructive cults, and I do this by sensitizing them to the problem of mind control or undue influence. It is difficult to help someone leave a cult, so the best way to deal with this problem is to educate people about it.

#5

The world of Nineteen Eighty-Four is far different from the typically middle class American world of my childhood. I grew up in a conservative Jewish family in Flushing, Queens, New York. I was an introvert, not a joiner. I had few friends, and preferred reading books to going to parties.

#6

I was a member of the Moon organization, and I was proud to call myself a Moonie. But when I was a Moonie, Sun Myung Moon and his empire embraced the term, but only much later decided that it was inconvenient.

#7

The Unification Church was a well-known cult in the 1970s. It was completely dominated by its leader, Sun Myung Moon, a Korean-born businessman. In 1982, Moon was convicted of felony tax fraud and served 13 months in the federal penitentiary in Danbury, Connecticut.

#8

Mind control is any system of influence that disrupts an individual’s authentic identity and replaces it with a false, new one. It can be done through subtle forms of hypnosis or suggestion, or overt and highly controlled social environments.

#9

The Fraser Report, published on October 31, 1978, by the U. S. House of Representatives’ Subcommittee on International Organizations of the Committee on International Relations, documented many astounding and previously unreported facts about the Moon organization. It revealed that the Unification Church was not just a body of believers but also a political organization with an active political agenda.

#10

The Moon organization comprises enterprises ranging from ginseng exportation to the manufacture of M-16 rifles. In the United States, the most visible Moon-controlled entity is The Washington Times, a newspaper which has enjoyed considerable influence both in Washington and internationally.

#11

Moon’s belief in the necessary fusion of religion and politics highlights his organization’s involvement in a wide variety of extreme right-wing groups. While there have been many such involvements over the years, Moon’s political arm in the 1980s was an organization known as CAUSA, which was founded in 1980 after a tour of Latin America by Moon’s right-hand