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Lex DeVille
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If you were in one, you wouldn't believe you were in one. That's the trap.Can't say I have ever fallen prey to a cult.
I think it's important to ask how someone gets into a cult. Especially someone who has studied cults way too much. Intelligent people are the MOST likely to find themselves in cults. It happens because an intelligent person can reason that there are things they simply do not understand.
If the path to understanding is to *do the thing* that the system promotes, then the only way to truly know is to do the thing. For instance, maybe psychedelics are the path to experiencing god. If you've never done them, how can you say it isn't? So you become open to testing this new idea, and in that openness, you've completed the "unfreezing" part of the "unfreeze, change, refreeze" systematic belief/identity change process.
It's difficult for someone to just believe or to even have faith in something they do not have evidence for. So how do you get there? You have to suspend your disbelief. It's like when you go to the movies or open an interesting fiction novel. For a time, you are willing to shut off your analytical mind so you can enjoy the experience for what it is intended to be.
Unfortunately, the cult system is designed to capitalize on that openness. Thus, millions of people are part of cults of different varieties today. That doesn't mean they're all bad. But when a cult is essentially asking you to give up life as you know it in service for their cause in the hopes of a reward after death...that's a big ask, so you'd better be sure.
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