Many years ago, one of my blogs was about a powerful Mesoamerican cult which elicited wonderful art and architecture, and it was a positive cult, revering Nature and humbled before it.
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Today we have followers of fashion, music icons, great thinkers, drive our favourite motor vehicles and so on…and always we have had religious diversity, with sometimes clashing of belief systems.
We form cultures, and reinforce our strength of belief in them through wearing merchandise proclaiming that belief, and wearing badged clothing. We join together to celebrate them and talk to our fellow enthusiasts online, sometimes day by day, even hour by hour.
And in 2015, Dr Steven Hassan wrote a book, based on his escaping from the mind controlling Moonies Cult:
In the late 1950s the church spread to the West and in the 1970s was identified as a “cult.” Parents protested their children’s membership in the group, which often damaged careers and family ties. They sought the help of deprogrammers and filed civil lawsuits. Controversy surrounding the church led to congressional hearings, and in 1982 Moon was convicted of tax evasion. His supporters, including many mainline church leaders, saw the trial as an example of government religious persecution
https://www.britannica.com/topic/Unification-Church
His deprogramming led him to study what had happened to him and he earned a doctorate in the subject and became dedicated to helping people escape the psychological warfare people have been sucked into and harmed by the experience.
He wrote this in the preface to his book:
I dedicate this book to all those who have suffered from abusive mind control in the hope that it helps them heal. Freedom of mind—which includes critical thinking, pursuing facts, listening to one’s conscience, and acting with integrity—is the foundation of all our other freedoms, including freedom of religion.
His website is:
https://courses.freedomofmind.com/
We are also aware of psyops around the world, spreading so easily through social media:
Russian Strategic Psychological Operations (Psyops), specifically information operations, have an important place in the Kremlin’s foreign policy and Russian military strategy. Russia is conducting psyops on a global scale. Still, the war in Ukraine, the increasing attention to the Arctic region, and the Swedish and Finnish ascension to NATO are all factors which increase strategic value in psyops targeting Northern Europe.
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