mind control

[leesiebella]

I read on an earlier post, someone referred to mind control.

Does anyone have any online resources...where I can look into this?

I'm specifically looking for something to do with SA and mind control...like subliminally (sp?), without your knowledge....

thanks,
leesiebella

[Doug64]

Hi leesiebella:

Here's one - Rick Ross has a spiritual abuse site:

http://www.rickross.com/mind_control.html

Doug

[Zoe]

Another one: http://www.freedomofmind.com/

[gwen]

I read on an earlier post, someone referred to mind control.

Does anyone have any online resources...where I can look into this?

I'm specifically looking for something to do with SA and mind control...like subliminally (sp?), without your knowledge....

thanks,
leesiebella

Both www.rickross.com and www.freedomofmind.com have been very helpful to me. I discovered them both when I was doing my online research about cults which led to us leaving our former "church".

Here is the list of Robert Jay Lifton's Eight Criteria of Mind Control:

1. Milieu control
Control of environment and communication within that environment. This includes not only what people communicate with each other, but how the group gets inside a person’s head and controls his internal dialogue.

2. Mystical manipulation
The contrived engineering of experiences to stage seemingly spontaneous and “supernatural” events. Everyone manipulates everyone else for the higher purpose.

3. The demand for purity
Establishing impossible standards for performance, thereby creating an environment of guilt and shame. No matter how hard a person tries, he always falls short, feels badly, and works even harder.

4. The cult of confession
The destruction of personal boundaries, and the expectation that every thought, feeling, or action—past or present—that does not conform to the group’s rules be shared or confessed. This information is not forgotten or forgiven but, rather, used to control.

5. Sacred science
The belief that the group’s dogma is absolutely scientific and morally true, with no room for questions or alternative viewpoints.

6. Loading the language
The use of vocabulary to constrict members’ thinking into absolute, black-and-white, “thought-terminating clichés” understood only by insiders.

7. Doctrine over person
The imposition of group beliefs over individual experience, conscience, and integrity.

8. Dispensing of existence
The belief that people in the group have the right to exist and all ex-members and critics or dissidents do not.

Robert Jay Lifton studied prisoners of war who were "brainwashed" and found that these criteria were used in every case. It has been shown that cults use these methods too.

Gwen

[gwen]

Also check out the thread, Summary SA Books & Sites. Carmen has created an awesome resource list website.

:) Gwen

[Carmen]

Here is the address to the SA list, stuff that everyone has been recommending here: http://www.jamesfive19.com/Spiritual_Abuse_Links_Resources.html

And Lofton's list is on my site too, at http://www.jamesfive19.com/Abuse_of_Pastoral_Authority.html, about a third of the way down the page in a table. The table also contains Schein's stages and Singer's conditions, all from her book...here an excerpt from the references:

Margaret Thaler Singer, PhD, Cults in our Midst (San Francisco, Jossey-Bass Inc., 1995) Table 3.3 p. 63. Sources of table: Lifton, Thought Reform and the Psychology of Totalism; Schein, Schneier and Barker, Coercive Persuasion.
Addition Oct. 20, 2005 - For an online version of the table see: The Process of Brainwashing, Psychological Coercion, and Thought Reform http://www.rickross.com/reference/cults_in_our_midst/cults_in_our_midst2.html.
For some information about Margaret Thaler Singer, PhD, see: The preeminent cult expert of the 20th Century http://www.rickross.com/groups/singer.html.

Carmen

[Carmen]

Also see my links on diaprax: http://www.jamesfive19.com/Hegelian_Dialectic_and_Diaprax.html

Here are some of my notes that I could find about manipulation literature on short notice, I need a database, but don't have the money right now.

Manipulation Literature

http://www.cs.umu.se/kurser/TDBC12/HT99/Tversky.html
The Framing of Decisions and the Psychology of Choice
Amos Tversky and Daniel Kahneman
This essay was first published in Science 211 (1981), pp. 4538, copyright 1981 by the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

http://www.cia.gov/csi/books/19104/art13.html
Center for the Study of Intelligence
Central Intelligence Agency
Chapter 10
Biases in Evaluation of Evidence



http://www.som.yale.edu/Faculty/sunder/JEBONote.PDF
Why do Biased Heuristics Approximate Bayes Rule in Double Auctions?
Karim Jamal, University of Alberta
and
Shyam Sunder, Yale University1


http://class.lindsey.edu/instructor/luddend/3723-99-03ingle.htm
The Power of Suggestion
Eddie Ingle
Lindsey Wilson College


http://psychology.stanford.edu/~monin/papers/Monin%202003%20JPSP.pdf
The Warm Glow Heuristic: When Liking Leads to Familiarity
Benoıˆt Monin
Stanford University


http://www.cebiz.org/cds/RecognitionPsychReview.pdf
Psychological Review Copyright 2002 by the American Psychological Association, Inc.
2002, Vol. 109, No. 1, 75–90
Models of Ecological Rationality: The Recognition Heuristic
Daniel G. Goldstein and Gerd Gigerenzer
Max Planck Institute for Human Development


http://www.uni-klu.ac.at/psy/cognition/download/zdrahal/Diss_Jul.pdf
THE RECOGNITION HEURISTIC: THE ROLE OF CUES, CONTRADICTION AND RELIABILITY, AND ITS APPLICABILITY IN NON-SIZE NON-DOMINANCE SETTINGS
Doctoral Thesis Mag. Julia Zdrahal-Urbanek University of Vienna
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Also try http://changingminds.org/index.htm

and

http://criticalthinking.org/

Carmen

[jane]

Carmen,

you go girl!

jane

[leesiebella]

Muchas Gracias!

:D leesiebella