Congrats on getting out. This place is a CULT. Can anyone make a connection with their time at ERAC and a few points off of these lists? LOL



"In her book "Cults - the battle for God", Shirley Harrison has a list of the characteristics of a potential destructive cult:

A powerful leader who claims divinity or a special mission entrusted to him/her from above;

Revealed scriptures or doctrine;

*Deceptive recruitment;*


*Totalitarianism and alienation of members from their families and/or friends;*

The use of indoctrination, by sophisticated mind-control techniques, based on the concept that once you can make a person behave the way you want, then you can make him/her believe what you want;

*Slave labour* - that is, the use of members on fundraising or missionary activities for little or no pay to line the leader's pockets;

Misuse of funds and the accumulation of wealth for personal or political purposes at the expense of members; and

Exclusivity - *"we are right and everyone else is wrong".* "


OR...


"In his "Building Resistance to Manipulation", the psychologist Steve K.D. Eichel created a checklist of signs of a sect designed to brainwash its members into loyal followers:

*Isolate them in new surroundings apart from old friends or reference-points;*

Provide them with instant acceptance from a seemingly loving group;
*Keep them away from competing or critical ideas;*

Provide an authority figure that everyone seems to acknowledge as having some special skill or awareness;

Provide a philosophy that seems logical and appears to answer all or the most important questions in life;

*Structure all or most activities so that there is little time for privacy or independent action or thought*

Promise instant or imminent solutions to deep or long-term problems;
Employ covert or disguised hypnotic techniques."