How the BLEEP did that happen?! - Episode 14
[I recommend going in numerical order with the Episodes. They build on each other.]
Episode 30 contains the full resource list.
This Ted-Ed Video below is a simple understanding of why people join High Demand/Control Groups and Cults. I find it cursory in it's understanding but still VERY useful. In the next few episodes I'd like to dig deeper to understand the reasons people join, stay, and keep defending leaders and groups, even when they see problems. To do that we need to get personal... but first, watch this.
To be continued.....
Resource List so far
Gaslighting Articles:
High Demand Group Checklist:
http://www.dreichel.com/Checklist_of_Cult_Characte.htm
Spoof on Mind Control Cults:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7DGKJrgfHcw
Books:
Freedom of Mind - Steven Hassan
Cults Inside and Out - Rick Alan Ross
Cults in Our Midst - Margaret Singer
Movies/TV Shows:
Holy Hell - Will Allen
Stages of Leaving a Cult:
http://spiritualabuse.org/articles/recovery.html
What Is Brain Washing:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B2WQpRageBE&t=8s
Why do people join cults:
Mark Vicente ©2017