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

mind-and-cognition

• If I can get you to deny reality, then I have in fact controlled your mind.

  CIO-008

• My mind suddenly opening up, as if a light switch had been thrown…rediscovering myself.

  CIO-011

obedience-and-authority

• You have absorbed this new identity that they've given you. You're just surviving.

  CIO-009

• For 10 years I did everything they told me to do…I lost the ability to think critically for myself.

  CIO-007

trauma-and-survival

• They told me if you think like that, that's what could kill her.

  CIO-003

• I was able to recreate the personality that I had before I endorsed his ideology.

  CIO-012