CULTS AND TERROR SOCIETIES

by Lawrence Wilson, MD

Cults and terror societies are two forms of human organization that are most interesting to know about. This article will help to define what I mean by them, what they are, what they do and how to avoid them, if possible. Let us examine cults in more detail.

CULTS

Cults are forms of organization in which the members of the group submerge their will and their lives to some degree to the wishes of the leader or leaders, who, in turn, live or benefit off the member’s needs or weaknesses in a selfish way. A cult, therefore, is a form of human society in which a leader abuses people, either in an overt way such as raping the women, or in a subtle way, such as bossing people around, murdering those the leader does not like, and so on.

More specifically, but not in every case, cults involve 1) sex with the leader, who is usually a male, 2) twisted religious ideas or principles, 3) some degree of brainwashing and/or hypnosis, and 4) living together under one roof or a series of buildings scattered about. In part, this is a way to control the people better, and in part is desired by the members in some cases. These four items are subsidiary qualities or attributes of most cults, but not all, since some are entire nations, for example, with thousands of people under the thumb of the dictator. However, the main quality is the submerging of the individuals’ mind, spirit, ego and perhaps body to the will of the leader(s), who use them selfishly.

This is a broad definition, but will suffice for this website. Others may view cults slightly differently.

TERROR SOCIETIES

This is a special form of a cult, in which a strong leader or group of leaders subjugates or subjects everyone else to his or her rule using an army or armed thugs to roam around and keep the people in line. It may be considered a special type of cult that is more yang, more obvious and more forced. Excellent examples of terror societies include today’s China, modern North Korea, and indeed many dictatorship nations such as those in the Middle East, Africa and Asia.

In fact, many societies in history, particularly empires, would be called terror societies. These include the Roman empire, the former communist Soviet Union, Nazi Germany, and hundreds of other older empires and nations could be called terror societies because they are maintained by terror, basically. The entire feudal period of history is of this type, as are many of the societies mentioned in the bible, which are thousands of years old, such as Egypt under the Pharoahs.

In contrast, other cults are more subtle and perhaps more gentle in their operation. Instead of soldiers oppressing the people, they use rape, persuasion, sex appeal, milder hypnosis, milder brainwashing, sleep deprivation, seduction or other more subtle means to attract, hold, indoctrinate and manipulate the members.

OTHER INTERESTING ASPECTS OF CULTS AND TERROR SOCIETIES

ENERGETIC ASPECTS OF ALL CULTS AND TERROR SOCIETIES

A most important aspect of cults and terror societies is they must lower the adaptive energy or vitality level of their members in order to maintain control and be able to manipulate them. This is so important it must never be overlooked when examining any society, organization, group or movement in society. Entire books could be written about this subject, so important is it.

The basic idea is that to control a person, one must lower the person’s energy. If the person has a good adaptive energy level, which can often be read on a properly performed and interpreted hair mineral test, the person will be much harder to control. Cults and terror societies therefore “specialize”, one might say, in finding ways to lower the energy of their members or constituents.

Some of the ways they do it sleep deprivation, nutritional deprivation, political oppression, random violence, or having people learn confusing and conflicted doctrines. It may include odd rituals, satanic practices such as sacrificing animals, raping women and even men or whipping them, perhaps. It can include rituals that wear the people out such as long dances or marches, as Mao Tse Tung forced the Chinese to undergo.

It can include the use or encouraging the use of alcohol, all kinds of drugs, poisons of various kinds including smoking marijuana, since even this definitely weakens people. Finally, it can simply be humiliation, embarrassment, overwork and other torture of all kinds, though it may not be called torture. For example, it could be vigorous exercise routines like running in place, a martial arts display, standing for a long period of time, chanting for hours, cleaning up the Ashram for hours, or almost anything that stresses people.

Please, when evaluating a church, a group, or any organization that you are thinking of joining, watch for such activities, mild as they may seem, as these are hidden ways that groups condition and brainwash their members.

SEXUAL ASPECTS AND RAPE WITHIN CULTS AND TERROR SOCIETIES

In every cult, by our definition, the leaders use the members bodies, minds, or resources either for sex, or for other purposes such as to take their money or use their labor, for example. The sexual aspects of cults are most interesting, and extremely important for a number of reasons:

1. Rape is often used within cults to “condition” people, humiliate people, lower people’s energy level, for fun by the leader, and for brainwashing and other purposes as well. Rape is excellent to condition human beings, sadly. For much more on rape and its uses, read Rape on this website.

2. Sex is used as part of male dominance in some, if not many cults and terror societies.

3. Sex can be used as entertainment, for example. With some groups it is the main way they attract new members.

4. Sexual rituals, group sex and other odd practices are used also to initiate people, condition people in special ways, humiliate people as part of a ritual such as making one remove all their clothes for an “inspection”

5. Sexual rituals usually spread sexually transmitted diseases and, in this way, they sicken people to make them more docile and obedient.

6. Rarely, sex is used to procreate new members, like the offspring of the king in olden times.

POWER ASPECTS OF CULTS AND TERROR SOCIETIES

Cults and terror societies are always about centralized power. This is another important principle. Power flows from the boss, leader, king or “main man” downward, and never the other way around. This is a key to understanding cults and terror societies.

Power is maintained over the “subjects” in hundreds or even thousands of ways, from sheer force of military might, to rape, to torture, to teaching various doctrines such as the divine right of kings, for example. Power may also be maintained in very subtle ways such as taking people’s money and possessions away, or just the right to use people’s possessions, inflating the currency in a nation to bankrupt the people. Inflating the money is a hidden tax that secretly transfers enormous wealth from the people to their government. The entire Western world is practicing this today, as are China, Japan, Russia and other nations as well. This is all stealing wealth, which is one way to keep power centralized and maintain its strength when other methods fail.

Other ways to maintain power are to damage the women, damage the family unit, get rid of religion and God, since these are “alternative power structures” that inevitably compete with the cult leader or state. Another way is to teach a hierarchical religion which sadly includes most of them on earth. One can teach that it is good to be poor, humble, self-effacing and deferent to authority. One can teach people that it is noble to be a slave or a servant of the government. These are many other methods are used in cults and terror societies, and even in modern socialist and communist nations, which are terror societies, to maintain centralized power.

CULTURES AS CULTS

The word cult and the word culture come from the same root meaning. It is true, indeed, that an entire culture can be based on brainwashing, sexual molestation and perversion, for example, and so the similarity in the words can be meaningful, though certainly not in every case.

LEGAL ASPECTS OF CULTS

Cults are often thought to be illegal. However, cults are not necessarily illegal or even immoral to a great degree. One can argue that they offer an “alternative lifestyle” or an alternative way of living and organizing society that some people want and enjoy, and they should therefore be left alone by the police and other legal authorities provided they do not break any laws.

However, many states in the United States, and in other nations, have passed anti-cult laws. These are an attempt to protect people from rape, violence and murder that may occur within the community or group. The laws are designed to protect against crimes such as assault, domestic violence, sexual harassment, fraud, molestation, robbery, rape and even murder in the name of a cause.

These laws are controversial, at best, because proving these allegations is difficult, at times. At other times, the group is very visible in society, and some of these cases appear in the television news headlines when they are hauled before a judge for their supposed “crimes”. This is a difficult issue, since one can argue that the members choose to live a certain way, as do some couples choose to live in a sort of violent fashion in some homes. The question is how far the police have the right to go to interfere with the lifestyles of the people, especially in nations such as the United States, where people are supposed to have a degree of privacy from government snooping and government oppression. Where does privacy end and rape and violence begin in a family or a community or group?

DEFINING QUALITIES OF CULTS

1. They are often held together by force of some kind. It could be that the leader threatens the members with execution, torture or something else. It could be that it is a religious group and the threat of force is that God will punish them if they leave the cult. It could be a threat of some other kind, such as social pressure, embarrassment, excommunication from the religion, loss of income, or something else.

2. Cults do not encourage open and free thought beyond certain well-defined boundaries. In other words, the members are not allowed to question the beliefs and practices in the cult. If they do question too much, they are usually expelled, punished, or even killed in some cases.

Ways that cults prevent open discussion and freedom of thought are to invoke religious ideas, for example. Other ways are through peer pressure, subtle or overt threats of rape or violence, threats of expulsion and even threats of death.

3. Cults have a seductive and hypnotic quality. In other words, they often attract people who just wander in and do not really understand what is really occurring. The cult leader is usually smooth, seductive, appealing and charismatic. All have hidden agendas, and many use underhanded means such as seduction, flattery, hype or lies to lure people in, and then to keep them in the cult.

This differs from a terror society in which members are held at gunpoint, for example, and clearly raped or murdered if they do not comply with the leader’s wishes.

4. Cults usually have an intimate or family-like quality about them. This is a curious quality, and one that appeals to many people who, perhaps, did not enjoy a good early family life or who long for a group to belong to. Wanting a family is a human trait that is quite strong. The family provides safety, companionship, often sex, material support, opportunity for work, play and social gathering, and more.

Cults often exploit this human need or desire in many ways by having people live together, enjoy sex loosely, play and work together, and more.

5.Cults often, but not always have a religious or spiritual tone or undertone. This also fulfills a deep need in many, many people. Most people want some type of spiritual guidance and direction in their lives. Some find it in the traditional churches and religions, while others find it from reading and studying books, watching religious television, walking in nature, or elsewhere.

Once again, cults often exploit this important human need and desire in order to control their members and make sure that the hidden agendas of the leader(s) are fulfilled.

The most common religious themes are Eastern such as Buddhist or Hindu, and Christian. Jewish religious themes are much less common. A possible reason for this is because the sexual aspects of cults cannot be fit into the Jewish pattern of religious life nearly as easily as they can be fit into the Christian pattern, which is more vaguely defined as just “love thy neighbor as thy self”.

An exception might be some of the older Israeli kibbutzim that are mainly gone now. They were socialist uptopias on a small scale, in which some advocated “free love and sex” and group children raising. However, this did not work well.

The news occasionally reports on a religious community that is claiming to just be an “alternative lifestyle” or polygamous group. Sometimes they are hauled into court for violating a state law, but usually they are acquitted because they know the trick of avoiding the law. When one does not obtain state marriage licenses or birth certificates in the USA, the legal authorities cannot so easily storm in and break up the cult. The group is technically less under the state’s jurisdiction. This has caused some states to pass “anti-cult” legislation to rectify what may be called a loophole in the law.

SLEEP DEPRIVATION IN CULTS AND IN MODERN SOCIETIES

One of the tools used by many cults and in some terror societies to control people is to deprive them of enough rest and sleep, and even enough relaxation time. This has a severe weakening effect upon people that, in turn, makes them more susceptible to the will of the leader, less able to resist, more easily brainwashed and hypnotized, and more ill. In this sense, sleep deprivation, like rape, is an excellent tool to use to control and manipulate anyone.

Sadly, this same method is used today in all sorts of organizations from universities and medical schools, for example, even hospitals, to keep the doctors and nurses in line. It is also used in religious organizations, including mainstream churches, at times, to keep the followers off balance and docile. Please beware of any group, activity, organization or teaching that encourages people to stay up late or in some other way to obtain less than 8 or 9 hours of sleep each and every night. This is a warning, as we find too many people “caught up” in groups that have them staying up late, watching television late at night, eating late at night, or other activities, that actually weaken the person for this reason, whether by accident or by intent.

One of the worst of these is going to college. The professors often load the students up with reading and assignments that force the students to stay up late reading or writing papers, for example. Whether by accident or intentionally, this weakens the student’s resolve, slows the mind, dulls the mind, and makes the student much more susceptible to the professor’s subtle propaganda and brainwashing.

Other ways this is used is to force medical students to stay on the job for 12 hours or more, force nurses to work long hours, or force anyone to do the same. Still another way is to force people to get up very early for high school, for example, or for college classes, or even for work or for sports events or other events. All of these deprive people of enough sleep and rest, and are powerful methods that cults and terror societies will understand can be used to help control and manipulate people without their knowledge.

BRAINWASHING IN CULTS

Most cults engage in brainwashing and/or hypnosis to some degree to help keep the group in line. However, sometimes the leader is so skilled, so handsome, or charismatic that he need not brainwash anyone and he doesn’t care if people come and go, as long as he has his harem or followers to a degree.

I would still call this a cult if the purpose is nefarious or selfish in some way, even if there is no obvious or no intentional brainwashing or hypnosis going on.

CULTS AND ANIMAL SOCIETIES OR BIOLOGICAL DOMINANCE THEORY

Cults, in many ways, emulate or resemble the way many species are organized for survival. That is, they are ruled by usually one or several dominant male animals who have free sexual access to all of the females in the group or herd of animals. The women and the lesser males stay with the dominant male because the male protects the group, literally. In return, the women submit to sex and the lesser males do not challenge this, or anything else that the dominant male or males ask for.

However, a lesser male, especially a young one, may, at any time, challenge the dominant male in a kind of mock warfare. If the younger one wins, then he becomes the dominant male and the older dominant one is out. This does not usually occur in human cults, but it is the way things work in the animal societies.

In human cults, survival of the group is an issue in many cases. However, it differs because survival is not the dominant theme. Instead, sex with the leader is dominant, or perhaps an ideology, religion, type of work or something else is dominant.

Also, in the human cults, hypnosis, seduction, brainwashing, and violence against the members, including rape, beating, shooting, undressing, embarrassment, harassment, intimidation, threats and more are often a dominant feature of the cult. This does not usually occur in the animal societies, although some of it could occur on occasion if a female, for example, does not want to go along with sex with the dominant male.

However, most often the females want to have sex with the powerful dominant male in order to have the most powerful and best equipped babies, so this is not much of a problem. Also, among animals, couple loyalty and “love” is not usually much of an issue, so sex is more free and not related to love or loyalty as much as it is to having young that will survive.

WOMEN AND MEN WHO JOIN OR ARE ATTRACTED TO CULTS

Often, but certainly not always, the men and women are docile types of people who are easily led and easily manipulated by charismatic leaders. Often, but not always, they were molested and/or raped as children or young adults. Most tend to be very fearful so they are easy to control and to shepherd, as it were, into the group and to keep them coming back for more.

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