hello "sushigrl" and others.
Its very important to see the direct comments from those who have been in SGI since childhood. One can see the first hand evidence going back decades, how Ikeda has used his extreme influence techniques within family groups and on young children.
For example, if Ikeda is going to NAME a child, that again sets up a powerful Identity control (Ikeda hopes) that will last for the life of the child.
Of course, it doesn't always work out that way.
Some people do walk away from SGI, but of course some don't, it seems everyone is unique.
Another interesting fact, is that SGI gets young people to tell their SGI leaders their painful and private intimate details of their life for "guidance", and then uses that against that person.
Again, that is a very common and classic technique in these groups/sects, where they have an internal snitch-line, where everyone is reporting and talking about others. It keeps people in-line, and people learn fast they cannot trust ANYONE, as any secrets or complaints will be reported and talked about.
So people become extremely fearful of saying anything other than praise for the leader.
Many groups do that. That is a technique of group control.
There is also another report of SGI naked pool parties with young women. There was a previous report in this thread, that Ikeda did the same thing with his President Ikeda "nude guidance sessions" in his President Ikeda hot-tub.
SGI President Ikeda, hot tub, nude guidance to Young Women's Division [
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Anyone can see what that is really about, and perhaps one day the sexual abuses that have occurred inside SGI will become public.
SGI also practices shunning and disowning of anyone who dares to speak up and tell it like it is. When combined with deep family influence, this type of family and group ex-communication can be very powerful.
Most sects like SGI also use that technique to try to keep people inside the group/cult.
More SGI techniques of extreme persuasion/brainwashing have been shown, about having youths march in the hot sun for hours, and deprivation of food and water.
Again, very standard techniques of breaking down people's sense of self and identity.
Every single technique mentioned so far that is done by SGI, is a common technique used by other sects/cults/groups who are also engage in extreme influence of a large group of people.
Identity manipulation of children, cultic renaming of people, internal snitch-lines and betrayal of trust to create fear, nudity, excommunication, shunning, heat exhaustion, food and water and sleep deprivation...these are all standard techniques.
Daisaku Ikeda has studied and systematically implemented those advanced persuasion, mind-control and extreme influence techniques, and dozens and dozens of others, which give him maximum control of his global organization and followers.
One could list all the techniques here, from the unpaid staff, to all the other techniques discussed in this thread.
But there are ways to fight back.
There is a thread about techniques people can use to fight back against these techniques in their own minds, even many years later.
"IDEAS on how to KICK-OUT byron katie from your Mind-Soul-Life forever" [
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Daisaku Ikeda is just a narcissistic, self-obsessed, mass manipulator of the highest order. His dream was to become the President of Japan, and thank goodness he completely failed at that. Now he just calls himself President of his own sect.
Daisaku Ikeda is very well practiced and schooled in many of the most powerful social influence techniques ever used, and he has used those techniques to make himself a multi-billionaire.
Ikeda obviously studied all of the main techniques of mass influence and brainwashing, and also has a small group of experts around him who keep up with the latest refinements.
When one looks carefully at the evidence and facts, the REAL Daisaku Ikeda is seen, and that person is basically the exact opposite of all of the SGI propaganda.
Daisaku Ikeda is a sick person, with a bloated malignant Ego, a man who loves to extract the last dollars from bank accounts of desperate and vulnerable people, to add to his billions in global investments.
The image of SGI and Ikeda that SGI promotes, is literally a complete illusion.