Secure attachments emancipate us. Secure attachments free us to explore, leave the next, free us to ask questions and disagree. Alexandra Stein has found a way to understand abusive groups and relationships as unstable relationships from which one has been indoctrinated to seek stability. Methods for Total Control Abusive groups promise stability and nurture, promise orientation, and
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Get people laughing in unison and its a feeling of instant intense belonging. But...instant intense belonging is not genuine belonging. Instant intense belonging created by tricks of social engineering gives a strong jolt to our brain chemistry, just the way speed or heroin does. Which makes it addictive -- and why fraudster salespeople and retail gurus love to use these tricks on us.
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"You are not really you, you are the one witnessing the witness but is the witness also you or are you not you?" This is a recipe for trance, not enlightenment. Remember Alexandra Stein's insight: These people are toxic because they advertise how we will gain stability from their teachings, yet these people's verbal output does the opposite: it destabilizes the listen
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Alexandra Stein has identified a remarkable thing about cults and abusive relationships: They destabilize us, we crave safety, and because we have been led to drop outside friendships and distrust our own thoughts and emotions, the only source of safety we can imagine is the source of our disorientation and fear -- the abusive person or abusive cult. We run toward and cling to the same enti
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This article describes one group, Access Consciousness. Much of the material applies to other groups as well. QuoteHaworth, a former cult member, once part of the now non-existent PSI Mind Development Institute, added: “These groups will cash in on anything that’s popular. If people are interested in personal development, and why shouldn’t they be, then they’ll offer that … if people w
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