6 conditions of mindcontrol - CJ Hopkins

1. Keep the person unaware of what is going on and how she or he is being changed a step at a time. Potential new members are led, step by step, through a behavioral-change program without being aware of the final agenda or full content of the group.

2. Control the person’s social and/or physical environment; especially control the person’s time.

3. Systematically create a sense of powerlessness in the person.

4. Manipulate a system of rewards, punishments and experiences in such a way as to inhibit behavior that reflects the person’s former social identity.

5. Manipulate a system of rewards, punishments, and experiences in order to promote learning the group’s ideology or belief system and group-approved behaviors. Good behavior, demonstrating an understanding and acceptance of the group’s beliefs, and compliance are rewarded, while questioning, expressing doubts or criticizing are met with disapproval, redress and possible rejection. If one expresses a question, they are made to feel that there is something inherently wrong with them to be questioning.

6. Put forth a closed system of logic and an authoritarian structure that permits no feedback and refuses to be modified except by leadership approval or executive order. The group has a top-down, pyramid structure. The leaders must have verbal ways of never losing.

The Man Who Escaped A Cult: Steve Hassan on Mind Control | Taryn Southern

How do I know if I'm under mind control?

The main thing is to listen to your own inner voice and to know if something is legitimate it will stand up to scrutiny and to not be manipulated by guilt and fear.

At the destructive end there's deception, manipulation, guilt, fear. If you don't do what you're told, terrible things will happen to you. You should be in control of your life. The locus of control should be inside of you rather than another person, or a group, or an ideology.  

Mind control groups have a black and white, us verus them ideology. Very simplistic.

You're either on the inside and you have the truth or you're on the outside and you're the devil and there's soemthing wrong with you.

If they tell you not to read this book by an ex cult member then go read it and make up your own mind.

With religious organizations, they frame it as you have to obey God but you are in a human institition whose leaders say they know what God wants. And that's the question mark. 

Gurus have an 80% lie rate.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g834sSXcFYM

any Torah without a foundation is not Torah

The Maharetz Chajes said, "The importance for a beginner in secular fields to have clear introduction is obvious, but it is even more important when studying Torah." He cites the Yerushalmi (Shabbos 87a): "any Torah without a foundation is not Torah." Says Maharetz Chajes, "That means Torah without an understanding of basic rules and concepts...." (Introduction to Toras Nev'im) 

"the approach of the study of hashkafa must take into careful consideration the specific needs, goals, and 'desires' of each individual in order to personally 'recognize the One who spoke and created the world."

"on a pedagogical level, the faith-study of the Torah is essentially the discerning and elaboration of the spectrum of ideas which defines the possibilities and boundaries of acceptable positions. A consequence of this is that the student must be exposed to a full spectrum of hashkafic thought in order to fully appreciate the issues and then formulate his own position." 

Meir Treibitz, Introduction to Daas Torah, p. 33

cneged culam again

Talmud (Jerusalemi, Nedarim 319) : the Sabbath equals in importance all the other mitzvoth combined.

Whatever Your Heart Desires by Rabbi Moshe Newman https://ohr.edu/

https://ohr.edu/this_week/talmud_tips/7741

Rebbi said, “A person learns Torah only from a place that his heart desires.”

In the gemara, a seemingly identical statement is made by Rava: “A person should always learn Torah in a place where his heart desires.” Both teachings are based on a verse in Tehillim (1:2) that states, “But his desire is in the Torah of G-d, and in His Torah he meditates day and night.” The words “his desire” indicate that the Torah’s learner’s desire is essential for his Torah study.

Question: Are Rebbi and Rava in fact expressing the same idea? This would seem unlikely: the gemara would be teaching a redundancy, which is something we would not expect to find in Shas. And are we able to clarify this idea, or these ideas, in a more concrete and practical manner?

First let us examine the context of Rebbi’s statement. The Sages Levi and Rabbi Shimon the son of Rebbi were sitting in front of Rebbi and learning the meaning of certain verses in Tanach from him. When they finished the sefer they were learning, they each made differing requests regarding what sefer to learn next. Levi said he wanted to learn Mishlei, and Rabbi Shimon the son of Rebbi asked for Tehillim. Somehow, Levi was overruled, and Sefer Tehillim was brought for them to learn. When they reached the second verse — “But his desire is in the Torah of G-d” — Rebbi expounded it to be teaching that “A person learns Torah only from a place that his heart desires.” Upon hearing this, Levi said, “Rebbi, with this teaching you have given me permission to stand up (from learning Tehillim, and to learn Mishlei instead, as I desire).” Rashi explains: A Rav should teach his student only a masechet that the student requests to learn from him, because if the Rav teaches a different masechet, the learning will not be successful since the student’s heart is distracted by his interest in the other subject that he desires.

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