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1) The landscape in their minds was as strange as the corpse-littered village they left behind.They had started as seekers after meaning,direction,comfort and love.(2) The People’s Temple,which provided a number of social services to the poor,had filled their lives with purpose.But in the jungle of Guyana,it had all turned into fear and hatred.
Why did they join an organization like the People’s Temple?And why did they stay in it?(3) Few if any of the thousands of cult groups in the U.S.are as violent as the Guyana group was in its last days,but many of them share a number of unusual characteristics.Social scientists who have studied these groups agree that most cult members are in some sort of emotional trouble before they join.
(4) Once recruits start going to meetings,they are frequently subjected to various drills and disciplines that weary them both physically and emotionally,producing a sort of trance.
(5) Cut off from family and friends,the new member gets repeated infusions of the cult’s doctrines.The lonely,depressed,frightened and disoriented recruit often experiences what amounts to a religious conversion.
At this point,the cultist’s life is no longer his own.Personalities change from the lively and complex patterns of normality to those of an automaton reciting what he has been taught.The usual problems of living have been replaced by a nearly childish existence in which the cult and its leaders supply all rules and all answers.(6) Erich Fromm,in his classic paper on the rise of Nazism,called this process the “escape from freedom.”…
1) The landscape in their minds was as strange as the corpse-littered village they left behind.They had started as seekers after meaning,direction,comfort and love.(2) The People’s Temple,which provided a number of social services to the poor,had filled their lives with purpose.But in the jungle of Guyana,it had all turned into fear and hatred.
Why did they join an organization like the People’s Temple?And why did they stay in it?(3) Few if any of the thousands of cult groups in the U.S.are as violent as the Guyana group was in its last days,but many of them share a number of unusual characteristics.Social scientists who have studied these groups agree that most cult members are in some sort of emotional trouble before they join.
(4) Once recruits start going to meetings,they are frequently subjected to various drills and disciplines that weary them both physically and emotionally,producing a sort of trance.
(5) Cut off from family and friends,the new member gets repeated infusions of the cult’s doctrines.The lonely,depressed,frightened and disoriented recruit often experiences what amounts to a religious conversion.
At this point,the cultist’s life is no longer his own.Personalities change from the lively and complex patterns of normality to those of an automaton reciting what he has been taught.The usual problems of living have been replaced by a nearly childish existence in which the cult and its leaders supply all rules and all answers.(6) Erich Fromm,in his classic paper on the rise of Nazism,called this process the “escape from freedom.”…
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