Inside the Mindset of Cult Followers: A Study

When you believe in something you go into with your whole heart and no one can tell you any different. In a “The Man Who Saves You from Yourself by Nathaniel Rich, David Sullivan, the private investigator from San Francisco, stated, “No one wants to Join a cult.” David Sullivan in depth look at cults by studying them and even at one point joining one. He learned through his studies, how people are pulled into the cults with psychological methods. First, they break you down, they persuade you, they convenience you that you aren’t worthy. Second, they rebuild you, they lift you up, Thirdly, they finally have you where they want you. From that point on you believe everything they have to say, you do anything they want you to do. As Margaret

He went on a hunger strike for eleven days. He didn’t drink any water or eat any food. Superiors had chosen this hunger strike as a method of protest against the government of India, which in its attempt at peacekeeping. “Lanka, the Indian army occupied Tamil homes, crowded Tamil villages, raped Tamil women, and burned Tamil houses”. (p129) Upon K’s decision to fast was an India-sponsored accord that he believed ignored the Tamil interest in a homeland…the same time, I understood that no act of violence we had committed had ever attracted as much support for a homeland as the act of violence K committed now, on his own body”. (p.129). He stood up for what he believed in, even if that meant he was going to lose his own life. In our society today many people are still fight for equal rights. Women to this day are still fighting for equal pay. Men are still getting paid more than women. Homosexuals are fighting to have the same rights as heterosexuals. Many of the people fighting for equal rights or equality in our country have given their lives up for their

I fell for a con man, I was brainwashed and an I guess you can say I was in his spell, I was in the cult of my abusive relationship. I was six-teen when I met him, he was twenty-one. We had nothing in common. What did I have that he could possibly want? Just like in a cult he wanted someone that he could manipulate, control, be taking care of financially. I believed that marriage was forever, you know for better or for worse. I didn’t even want to divorce my husband at first. It took me six months after I finally left him to file. I am an old school catholic women. You just don’t leave your husband. So with that being said, I hide the abuse from all of my friends and family. W. An abusive relationship is like a leaking faucet that starts with a slow drip and over time the slow drip has become a flooded house because the pipe has finally broken. First comes the fight, then comes the violent episode, then the honeymoon phase after the violent episode. The make-up sex was so intense. He would love to hit me then make me have sex with him. He would say it is such a turn on. He would always say I cannot believe I did that. I am so sorry it will never happen again. Sometimes months would go buy even years, but it would always start back up. I will say that the emotional abuse I suffered was far worse than the physical abuse. I would rather my ex hit me