5 Powerful Cult Indoctrination Methods 

Coming out of a religious cult is like waking up and realizing you've been the only one asleep and isolated your entire life. Mind control, indoctrination, isolation, financial issues, threats and abuse nearly makes it impossible for victims to leave and start a new life.

1) simple answers to complex questions. 2) New identity. 3) isolation / psychological coercion. 4) binary world view 5) confession /:blackmail. Having been in a cult myself, I fully agree. It took me years to overcome it. What really woke me up was being forced to sit helpless while my niece dropped out of high school to join a cult. Ultimately, I became an atheist.

I'm a psychotherapist and am currently writing a book about the psychology of people who are drawn into conspiracy theories. Also examining the various techniques used to manipulate and persuade your victims. Also the many ways those skills can be employed. It's not always driven by bad intentions. The same methods are used to help alcoholics, to change the mindset of vaccine hesitant parents and I personally offer deprogramming a professional capacity. People need to be aware how very dangerous some victims become when they doubt and question their every thought.

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Excellent, concise information. I wish I had seen this 2 years ago.

This was randomly recommended to me (I haven't watched anything cult related). Very interesting and informative. Thank you

Great one. Keep up the good work of unmasking cults and sects.

This is happening right now with the T movement that is taking over the alphabet crowd. Literally checks off all the boxes.

This is very informative and yet concise! Thank you very much! I have just survived an abusive relationship with a female "friend" who seemed suspiciously like someone who was in the beginning stages of forming a cult. After watching this video, I'm sure she is dangerous! May I share this information with others. I will definitely credit you as my source.

Thanks for the tutorial

Great video! Keep making such videos.

Very clear, unhurried presentation that still covers a lot of ground in a very visceral, almost even interactive kind of way. Great job.

Great video. Discourse is allowed in science, but not in religion and cults.

incredibly interesting and well delivered

The Village - Movie - / Great video and very helpful at this point in my research. Keep up the good work.

This is an excellent video. The attention-getter story at the beginning was super effective, and the references to studies throughout the video really supported the argument. As a religious cult survivor, it was also very validating, so thank you

Very well articulated!

The isolation part, sometimes your born in it and you wont have any red flags like them attempting to isolate you. Sometimes you never known any other support group but the one you were born into. Your already isolated.

Wonderful 😊. Thanks for sharing these insights 😊❤😮

It’s crazy hearing about this on a smaller scale (cults). I grew up brainwashed by the Vietnamese Communist party (which uses the same methods as the CCP). And literally all these 5 methods mentioned made up my whole childhood, except for it was used on a whole race of people and instead of cult, it was called a country 😅 And they executed the whole “charismatic leader” thing really well, there were literatures recorded about the leader, about all the legendary great things that he has done, about how “almost god-like he seems” giving him a special honorific (the whole Nation was practically forced to call him “Uncle”- typically used to address an adult older than your dad or have higher authority than your dad) and instead of making the Dean’s list, you make it to Uncle Ho’s list no matter what school you go to, kids would compete to see who would get more rewards from uncle’s list, to be “deserving” of his honors/ sacrifices for the nation. There is literally a picture of him in EVERY. SINGLE. CLASSROOM. Public or private school, k-12, colleges and universities. Looking back, I see how big of a red flag that is when children especially, and pretty much the whole nation were forced to idolize a mere human-being. But being born into that system, I loved Uncle Ho with all my heart. He felt like God to me and I would sing songs about him. And I was devastated when I found out I would never be able to get accepted to the Communist Party because Grandpa was a high-ranked officer for the South Vietnamese military, and it shamed me deeply that my grandpa was a traitor and I felt such gratitude for the government to not execute him but only sent him to “re-education camps” It broke my Dad’s heart when I told him that I felt gratitude that Grandpa was only sent to “camp”. I found out as an adult that they came into the house, beat gpa to a pulp in front of all his children, took his House, his cars, all his possessions and money, kicked everyone out their house and gave it to a North Vietnamese General, took him to jail, and then physically and psychologically tortured him to the point of a psychotic break and he died in there without an explanation. But their biggest victory will always be that his grandkids grew up being ashamed of him. My dad didn’t tell me the truth about anything until I was 15 and we were already in the US because he was afraid of how I’d react and he was afraid that I might have been too far gone. Didn’t realize I typed this much 😅 Just wanted to share my experience. Not sure if anyone would read this but if you read this whole thing, you’re an MVP

So simple, logical, rational and being witness and victim this makes all sense

Thank you for sharing.

This is absolutely spot on. I speak from the pain of experience. There need to b laws against this sort of thing. It’s very harmful to people.

Thanks for sharing 🙏🏾

I hope this video gets more views because this is an important topic, but I also hope people realize this isn’t just about Doomsday cults or religious groups. It’s about YOU too!

This applies to the pre-tribulation rapture believers. People would rather believe a lie, than to be told they're deceived by a lie. The majority of the world has been believing a lie and are currently deceived. The proof is in the fruit of society.

Can we acknowledge that this is how society at large works? Conformity

Thank you! This is an extremely helpful, clever lecture. This is what I needed to hear in my 20s. Now, waking up from the cults at 50, I just can sadly agree. You are talking about my life experience.

That was great! Thank you. 🙏

Great clip. Subscribed.

Hey, hope you don`t get mad but I just want to share my personal view and my own experiences, and I am sry for the pain some of you had to go through... but after I gave my life to Jesus meaning that I acknowledge I have sinned and I repent. My life has completely changed for the better, I prayed for help and now I am free from smoking, alcohol, porn, pain and suffering, free from a demon (a topic for another time) I lost around 20kg (because my anxiety and depression is basicly gone), stopped swearing, I stopped treated my bestfriend and family horrible (even though everyone said I was a nicest guy for some reason) I have immense peace and understanding, my girlfriend who is truly a gift from God is beyond words to describe... all of this in the last two years. I could go on and on and I do hope that atleast one of you will give Jesus a chance or a new one atleast, because it`s just to good to pass, thanks for your time whoever decided to read this and I just want to finish and say thank you God for everything.

Well done.

That was informative and interesting !

Nice video. Good job.

I lead a happy life now...When i was younger,i made the mistake of getting involved in church...Wasnt happy for years

Excellent!!

A very important message. Thank you.

That enormous elephant in the room is religion.....apparently we've been raised to 'respect' belief with no evidence.

This is useful to revisit in 2024.

Great video, you are good on camera!

Knowing how evil, and manipulative, Human Beings throughout history have been, and continue to be to this day, there is no Human Being, or group of Humans, who can control my personal spirit, and mind. I was born to think for myself, and nobody, or nothing on earth, will change my mind. I give thanks that I have a strong spirit.

Saturday:- The world will end on Friday. Thursday:- Oh no, it's not going to end tomorrow. It isn't going to end until next Friday.

Interesting presentation! New subscriber!

so helpful

Is your channel from the Freud quote stating not all things have deep sumblinal or subconscious meaning " sometimes a cigar is just a cigar"? Proving his theory of phallic obsession is not always the case w oral fixation? I think he was a sex obsessed man projecting his own issues on others but I do agree with this particular quote. Not everything or every action has some subconscious motive or message. Sometimes it's just what it is and is being done just for the basic obvious purpose of simple enjoyment or compulsion or habit w out heavy motive or meaning. My pontificating unnecessary comment, for instance, was me saying " hey nice quote as inspiration used for your channels name" 😀 me gets ya 😆

what a Pity such a good video has got only 352 subscribers.

In the Profundity Yours the members are told that the leader is a god who can take away their life force or divine spark and if they leave they will be in the he'll realms and not ascend

I am a proud follower of the Lubavitcher Rebbe. Many unreligious and religious Jews saw the love and unity he inspired and called him a cult leader, but he not only did not do any of these things, but he urged new converts to maintain their ties to their families, even inviting parents to their schools for weekends, and everybody had a good time. We were encouraged to keep our own personal talents and use them for good. I think it is important to look for religious leaders who are on the level!

Isn't Clarion a brand for radios

While it's relatively uncommon (compared to all the other woo-peddlers in this world), there are nevertheless still _some_ people who claim to get messages from extraterrestrials from other star systems or even galaxies, and a few of them have got small cult followings or at a very minimum people who fully believe them (ie. the typical believe-in-everything-as-long-as-science-opposes-it people). The funny thing is that this particular claim would be quite easy to give extremely strong believable evidence for, which could be corroborated and checked, yet they never do that. What kind of evidence? Well, have these extremely advanced extraterrestrials give this "medium" for example a proof (or counter-example) to a long-standing mathematical problem. Or better yet, for two or three of such problems. Proofs in the form that could be checked by the mathematical community. While of course still not 100% certain proof, it would nevertheless be extraordinarily strong evidence that this "medium" is at a very minimum in contact with _some_ intelligent being or beings that has superior knowledge, most likely extraterrestrial. Yet, funny thing, they never receive such messages from the extraterrestrials. It's always vague things about how we should behave, what we should think, what catastrophe humanity is facing in a hundred years...

My indifferrnce to why explanations,purpose,change,salvation,social identity,groupthink,belonging,being part of something bigger and structures saved me.They can talk whatever they mind during the recruitment process but sooner or later will get tired.

Simple Explanation: "For they that are such serve not our Lord Jesus Christ, but their own belly; and by good words and fair speeches deceive the hearts of the simple." - Romans 16:18 New Identity: "Having a form of godliness but denying the power thereof: from such turn away." - 2 Timothy 3:5 Isolation: "Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father's house, unto a land that I will shew thee." - Genesis 12:1 Binary View: "Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light." - 2 Corinthians 11:14 Confession: "He that keepeth his mouth keepeth his life: but he that openeth wide his lips shall have destruction." - Proverbs 13:3 🕎✝📖

It's crazy how much the "binary view" part applies to the MAGA right and ultra woke left right now. Both are very cultish in this way.

You have just described how the Cult of "Reformed 5-Point Calvinism" survives!!

What do you think about evangelicals fundamentalist cults , I was told if I left I was tagged by the devil , I went there to try find some peace , and found hell while living in my hell ,I was very vulnerable and in addiction,and my own part to play ,in recovery now but I've actually got serious ptsd from church 😵‍💫

I visited the Calvary church that thinks if you just pray to Jesus that all your problems will be solved when they don't realize science has a very important place. I am a Psychology major and I found this thought very uncomfortable .I am not letting go of the schooling I got for a sugar coated concept to ignore all of what I learned. I told them of Tim Fletcher and the fact that he did bible teachings in addition to teaching of trauma. That was a red light for me .I'm a mainline Protestant.God wants us to learn the Bible and more science as well.

Even komunist Party functions like this

You can’t stage that and call that reliable. Yeah, met two youngins that worked on farm. No salary, and the woman said she had to get permission to buy a bra.

Masks. Jabs. I know something about cults...

Maybe a talk on Christian fundamentalist. ❤

Vicks vapor rub cures everything 😂

Wow. I was 4 years old then. I guess I was too young to remember the catastrophe.

Church pastors have followers.

Dorothy Martin 😂 that’s tooo funny

Cults are not just religious. Nazi’s, Amway, communism, Walmart (back in the day), military (am a Veteran.) and many others. Football clubs sit together and boo and harass people of other clubs. Almost all groups ultimately seek to control at some point. Some friends, relatives, and relationships seek to control you. Gods word is simple and direct. It’s a choice of love and following by choice the word as written. Good churches seek to teach and coach so a person chooses to change. So if your Church seeks to manipulate and control you it’s not good. If you are not following Gods word and at odds with the Church, you should simply leave. If you leave your church, friend, family or relationships and they follow and harass you, then you should run and if possible move.

Like Joe Rogan points out. A cult has a charismatic leader who is good at mind control and manipulation with which they create a following. With religion, that guy’s just dead.

I mean.. honestly. Clarion? Shoulda saw through that one.

Spent cost fallacy

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Putting a deadline on the end of the world is a rookie mistake

Cults do that. I felt like I was being pulled intodifferent directions bt religious fanatics

I’m a follower of Christ, as the bible at face value with honest open reading depicts what the early Christian church believed and persuade. More often than not , ex cult members end up in church looking for meaning from what they’ve just been through and survived. What you have expounded on is so typical of the vulnerable person looking for truth and meaning. If they survive the personal trauma they’ve experienced in the sect or cult, it normally takes years and genuine love for that person to learn to critically think for themselves ( as Christianity proper demands). Good stuff , keep exposing cult thinking, The world is going cult very quickly 👍

I was born right into a cult! They call it SOCIETY! (Not kidding) ✌🏻

check ourt Steven hasssan's Bite model

Surrogate family is a recruiting lure ( enticement). Welcome to the family.

Alright, I got a direct question for you, if I may. Do you think Jesus was a cult-founder? I'm happy with any answer, just lets be honest.

Anyone familiar with ISKCON? Whew 😰

Tactics that’s all u baby

*I YAM SCIENCE!* *Line up, bow your heads, and say ouchie!*

I think one who says Bro is a cult member.

Jesus Is The Answer!

It is tragic and bad when people's religious part gets hijacked and exploited, and when real, esotheric schristianity gets used trivially , simplified by most groups of religiosly oriented people leaning rowards accepting harm.reactions instead of defending and protesting

Everything is by design. Everything. Evil man's design. End off.

Too bad you haven't posted in months....

Okay, I didn't finish. I have seen cults and known people in cults, etc. 1. Sometimes the answer is easy. 2. You don't need a PhD. in economics to understand it. Hanging your life on the words of experts is its own kind of cult. 3. There are only two basic philosophies. Christianity and Paganism. I have chosen these names for simplicity. There may be a number of names for either but the point is this: there are two and only two basic belief systems. If you are not a Christian (I don't mean Evangelical) then you are a Pagan and what you believe is ultimately irrelevant: you might as well be waiting for the spaceship to pick you up.

Thick every single box about an allianz marketing agency in my country 🤣🤣🤣

if it was going to 'flood' and they got their 'ticket to ride'... (logics) why would they need to sell their property? 🌊🏝🏝🏝🌊 🛸 like, whats the 'purpose' of even 'bothering' with that ppr/wrk (etc)

15:56 - LGBT

Religous bondage The verse do not neglect to assemble yourselves together Was mainly for the early church era However those weak in the faith need building up Trust the Holy Spirit to guide Into the right fellowship So many cults around also churches which may not be The best to attend With bibles and doctrinal Books aplenty one can read Sermons!

Many forms of gaslighting

Religion, cult, what's the difference

❗ Jesus said my sheep know my voice and the voice of a stranger they will not follow 🌑

When you work for the Fed.. then watch this.

Adult babies waiting to be picked up by the mother. People are desperate for a tribe, especially one with beliefs that appeal to a person's grandiosity.

Wow you just described government to a T…which means that you’re just a crazy conspiracy theorist. Government obviously only has our best interest in mind…now I’m off to get my 12th booster.

I declare the Dr. Captain Obvious.

I’ll never join

Very skillful dodging the tyrannical COVID overreaction; the worthless masks, the worthless isolation, the worthless magic serum. Was that intentional that you never mentioned it?

Sounds like religion and Christianity. Hmmmmmm.

I was just at Amazon - seemed pretty cult-like, better shut it down.