In psychiatry, paraphrenia (paranoid form of schizophrenia) it is a mental disease that completely cuts people off from reality. The patient creates a fictional world built around bizarre interpretations, hazy theory …
Month: July 2014
Paralogical reasoning
Paralogical reasoning is the basis of the cult leader's discourse and is intended to convince the adept. A typical example is Annick Lasalmonie, analyzing the Moonist statements88: “Sexual sin is the most serious of all, …
Teaching the guru
If the guru would be content to create his crazy ideas just for himself, he would be simply mentally ill. But to exist as a guru, must win followers, and then magnify them …
Twisted truth
The penchant for twisting the truth, beautifying her, transforming the story of your life is not a game, but a vital necessity for a guru. Only the real and known high value of a person can allow one to forget about him …
Medical past
Analyzing a guru's medical past may be interesting. Some of them were exposed to medicine frequently – not as practitioners, but as patients, during periods of "internment” in psychiatric hospitals.
Psychoanalytical …
Reconstruction of history
All social groups have a history. They also have every family, sometimes its history is glorious, and sometimes – contemptible or even hideous. The sects will also not escape their history. However …
Cultural level and diplomas
Usually it is impossible to check the authenticity of diplomas, which the gurus refer to. Sometimes they are real, and sometimes falsified. However, it can be concluded on their basis, what such "titled" people fear. …
Religious formation
Initial religious formation is very important, because it definitely influences the future themes of the sect, for example, Buddhism for Iso-Zen and Soka Gakkai; Hinduism for Rryishna's Light, Brahma Kumaris12 i Bhagwana; protestantyzm …
From madness to strategy
One can learn the violin from a fictional biography of a guru. We are dealing with fantasizing? A complete fabrication? Madness? From these nuances one can read the strategies of the organization of the sect, her profile, as well as choose a method …
Teacher biography
The guru's biography can be used as a decisive element of diagnosis, which allows to assess the authenticity of the teaching presented by the sect.
In the biography of the true spiritual master handed over to the adepts, no facts inconsistent with …