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

obedience-and-authority

• My first impulse was to kill my father—I believed it was better to do that than betray the Messiah.

  CCM-002

• Members were forced to divorce spouses, surrender children, and undergo 'self divorce'—total loss of individuality, acting only through blind obedience.

  CCM-010

self-and-identity

• I actually believed spiritual entities waited to possess me. Staying focused on the True Parents was the indoctrinated defence.

  CCM-001

• When I was in the Moonies, I knew I hadn't been brainwashed—Moon had convinced us our minds simply needed heavenly cleaning.

  CCM-013

trauma-and-survival

• Patty Hearst was locked in a closet for weeks, raped and starved, and later became an active member as 'Tania.'

  CCM-012

• David's mother had to be removed because her grief was viewed as spiritual weakness while his father beat on the dead boy's chest.

  CCM-009