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Nantes France November 2017 after
interviewing former cult members
researchers from the addict ology and
psychiatry department at non University
published the results of their study
their conclusion what makes someone want
to join a cult is a feeling of deep
dissatisfaction with life and a need for
personal development although this may
sound obvious there's also a bit
frightening especially since those same
traits apply to millions of people
perhaps even you you can have political
cults you can have therapy cults you
have new-age cults you have channeling
cults you have karate cults probably you
could find a chocolate chip cookie cult
if you wanted to so cults can be built
around any type of belief system and we
see that not only in our country but
around the world today with the rise of
this sort of push for hatred and
violence so it's something that is very
prevalent unfortunately this will not
stop I don't wanna be naive in our
organization we receive about five to
ten cult-related complaints a day from
families of the victims and they all
surround the same place and we find out
that seven percent of our society are
Psychopaths and sociopaths and worse
than that 25 to 30% of our society
families somehow directly or indirectly
are suffering from both abuses each one
of us could be susceptible to falling
prey to many of these cult-like groups
because every single one of us is
seeking meaning we want to understand
the big questions of life we want to
know why we're here we want to have a
sense of direction we want to have a
sense of community we want to be a part
of something and that's what a cult
offers you it offers you all of the
things that you're looking for except
it's a wolf in sheep's clothing
one of the difficulties is pulling
yourself out because if you look in long
enough and you're in deep enough you
don't have a way out and so I encourage
people to be supportive of former
members trying to be sympathetic don't
be judgmental people join cults because
they wanted to improve themselves they
had no idea they were falling into these
traps or vortexes of pain and and
torture
so could you be a member of a cult right
now
even as we speak no not you don't kid
yourself anyone who joins others and the
collective demonstration of shared needs
could find themselves in a cult but
whether that cult is benign or deadly is
the bigger question hopefully you or
someone else won't have to die before
you learn the answer till then you'll
just have to let the matter remain
unexplained
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