Chapter 71 Section 18 The Hypnotic Power of the Cult Leader

The hypnotic power of the cult leader If the psychiatrist above used hypnotic techniques to achieve his obscene purpose, his hypnotic power was not enough, because the woman woke up later and sued him in court.Now we are asking whether there is any hypnotic power which can completely control a person.In fact, cults have this ability. The method used by cults to attract believers is called "brainwashing".The leader first inculcates certain ideals and beliefs in the believers, which fully meet or even exceed the moral standards of human beings.This kind of strong indoctrination attracted the conscious attention of the believers. As a result, the leader used his will to control the believers' consciousness during the process of preaching, thus taking over the believers' subconsciousness.After the success of the takeover, the leader made unreasonable demands to the believers, and the believers would vaguely accept and strictly abide by them.

The hypnotic power of this cult is actually far more powerful than conventional hypnotism performed by a hypnotist in a room.Because ordinary hypnotists only use hypnotism to solve a certain problem in the life of the person being hypnotized, while the hypnotism of the cult leader tries to influence the entire life form of his believers.If a person being hypnotized is plotted against by an ordinary hypnotist, the chance of being rescued is very high.But if he is tempted by a cult leader, it will be very difficult for him to jump out of the clutches. I read a book called "Crazy for God - The Nightmare of Cult Living" by Christopher Edwards.He used to be a brilliant student at Yale University, and was introduced into the "Moon Cult" (the Moon Cult), which was very popular in the United States in the 1970s by a chance.Since he is a pastor, of course he originally belonged to the orthodox Christianity, but this pastor claims to be the reincarnation of Christ, and his mission is to awaken people's true understanding of God with love.His church is called the "Unification Church", and the monastery's parish is isolated from the outside world, and the parish implements a "creative community project".There, everything is designed as a paradise of love, and all believers live and live together, singing, dancing, praying, listening to sermons, and working every day.The leader Wen Xianxian's English name is very magical, it is called SunMyungMoon, which contains "sun" and "moon".

Christopher originally only wanted to live in the community for a week, but in fact, he was trapped in the community for 7 months, and finally, due to severe malnutrition, he had to let his father come to see him.In fact, his father already knew that Christopher was trapped in a cult, so he invited a rescue team composed of several professional anti-cult personnel, and kidnapped Christopher at an appropriate time.When Christopher was successfully rescued from the Mengjiao community, he strongly resisted his father's arrangement, but his father arranged for him the most famous anti-cult brainwashing expert to correct his paranoid psychology.It took even the most experienced anti-cult experts three full days to wake up Christopher from his trance.When Christopher woke up, it felt like everything was a dream.He himself can't explain why he chose such a naive life for such a long time without knowing it.

When Christopher regained his freedom, he and his family were harassed by the Cultists for the next few years until the Cult finally collapsed.In his book, Christopher describes his life in the monastic community in detail, where every day life is very positive, singing, dancing, praying, listening to sermons, and working are the daily routines .The only regret is that the diet is seriously insufficient, but the believers in the community live in poverty and happiness. Once they get sick, the only cure is to pray to God.The Mengjiao believers in the parish are all innocent like children, and they work like slaves.When poor Christopher had to steal food from the parish cafeteria in order to feed himself, the leader of the Misty Cult had long since become a billionaire, spending his days and nights in the most luxurious mansion in New York.

Before I opened this book, I thought that Christopher must have been humiliated and tortured in the cult. After reading this book, I realized that his life in the cult community was nothing but starvation and not being allowed to see a doctor. All sunny.Until his father asked someone to kidnap him, he still devoted himself to Mengjiao.After reading this book, I suddenly discovered that Christopher's life principle in the Mengjiao community is the three-character tactic of "Truthfulness, Compassion, Forbearance". In my opinion, apart from these three-character formulas, Mengjiao has one more formula, which is the "love" formula.The reason why the Obscurity Cult has become a popular cult in the United States is not because it is full of evil, murder and arson.On the contrary, the teachings of the Mengjiao are simply a perfect paradise.Cults are not necessarily evil or sinful. Most of the followers in a cult are good people. Because everyone is a good person, everyone thinks that what good people do together must be good.If good people give up their self-consciousness together and obey a leader with ulterior motives, then a group of good people is just a group of ants, or even locusts.

I work at the Psychological Counseling Center in Queens. The director of the center is Mr. Paul Unger, who is also the executive director of the Jewish Community Center in Flushing, New York. Mr. Unger is an old land in Flushing.One day, Mr. Ang showed me an American newspaper clipping, which contained an article written by an American, which professionally analyzed cults. I was surprised by such a professional article.After questioning, I found out that Mr. Ang is a member of the American Anti-cult Association. When he was young, he was also obsessed with Wen Xianxing's obscurity religion, and it took a lot of effort to break away from the obscurity religion.Because of his personal feelings, he is determined to devote himself to the work of anti-cult.

In hypnosis, the hypnotist follows the principles: repetition, mechanicalness, and simplicity, through which the consciousness of the person being hyped is firmly controlled.In cults, the techniques used to control believers are also the same: repetition, mechanicalness, and simplicity.In fact, as long as the physical behavior of believers can tell whether they are completely controlled by the cult.Look at the Hitler-style salute gesture, which is completely in line with the principles of repetition, mechanicalness, and simplicity.The whole of Germany was hypnotized by Hitler when people all over Germany made such rigid, simple, mechanical gestures in their daily life.There are many such absurd dramas in the history of mankind.

Cultural diversity is the greatest weapon to break the cult's repetitive, mechanical, and simple principles.As for the treatment of individual cult believers, a variety of external stimuli can be used to relieve their non-judgmental compliance with the cult's single instruction.