Dear Readers, I’m fearful to say the names of the two mind-control groups I speak of below, because I’m concerned they might try to ‘capture’ me again. Please excuse my reticence in this. Regardless, I hope there will be plenty of useful information for you in this post.
This is NOT about “Healthy Happy Holy Organization’, which is a kundalini yoga group (and not a mind-control group).
Image: “Mind Control Cult,” adapted from Image by Leo from Pixabay, Pixabay License
Image: “Mind Control Cult,” adapted from Image by Leo from Pixabay, Pixabay License
- INTRODUCTION
- MIND CONTROL CULTS USE GRIEF TO CASH IN
- The Recruitment Phase: Identifying and Grooming the Vulnerable
- The Indoctrination Phase: Establishing Control
- The Financial Exploitation Phase: Cashing In
- MIND CONTROL CULTS EXPLOIT FAMILY DIFFERENCES
- How Cults Exploit Family Differences
- CONCLUSION
INTRODUCTION
Dear Ones,
This post has to do with my blog categories: Cults that kill – mind control cults … and Confidence games – Con artists and its subcategories. These categories are on the Contents page Law … https://awakeningwithplanetearth.com/contents-law/ ..
I received psychic impressions of some of the members of the groups took place as they pursued me psychically when I left the cults. These psychic impressions are the bulk of the basis for my blog category: Catastrophic childhood case studies … https://awakeningwithplanetearth.com/catastrophic-childhood-case-studies/ ..
That category might offer insight into who and what you may be dealing with as a ‘cull’ or victim or ‘mark’ who is attempting to escape from a mind control cult.
MIND CONTROL CULTS USE GRIEF TO CASH IN
Because of bitter experience as a dupe of two mind-control cults … one after the other … just after my mother’s passing (which was quite some years ago) I asked Google AI: How do mind control cults use grief to cash in?
Google AI said: “Mind control cults exploit individuals experiencing grief by identifying them as vulnerable targets, then using psychological manipulation techniques such as love-bombing, isolation, and fear-mongering to gain control over their lives and, ultimately, their finances.
The Recruitment Phase: Identifying and Grooming the Vulnerable
Cults intentionally target individuals during periods of significant life transitions or emotional distress, such as the loss of a loved one.
- Targeting Vulnerability: People experiencing grief are often grappling with a search for meaning, purpose, and support, and they may feel lonely or isolated. This emotional state lowers their psychological defenses and makes them more susceptible to outside influence.
- Love-Bombing: Initial contact often involves ‘love-bombing’, where the cult members shower the grieving individual with excessive affection, attention, and praise. This creates an immediate sense of belonging and a false support system, which is highly appealing to someone in emotional pain.
- False Promises: The group and its leader promise solace, stability, and answers to existential questions surrounding death and suffering, presenting themselves as possessing unique knowledge or the “truth” that can alleviate the pain of loss.
The Indoctrination Phase: Establishing Control
Once the individual is emotionally invested, the cult begins a systematic process of control and dependency to ensure compliance, which is a prerequisite for financial exploitation.
- Isolation: The cult works to sever the member’s ties to their existing family, friends, and jobs, creating an echo chamber where only the cult’s ideology is reinforced. This lack of external support forces the individual to rely solely on the group for validation and a sense of reality, making them dependent and afraid to leave.
- Shame and Guilt: Leaders use fear and guilt to manipulate members into obedience, often suggesting that any problems they experience are their own fault or a result of not being committed enough to the group’s teachings. This shame surrounding one’s grief or ‘lack of faith’ for not fully moving on further binds them to the group’s ‘solutions’.
- Physical and Emotional Exhaustion: Demanding schedules, including long hours of rituals, work, or study, are used to diminish critical thinking skills and make members more susceptible to indoctrination.
The Financial Exploitation Phase: Cashing In
With the member’s identity remade and their critical thinking impaired, the cult can begin to cash in on their dependency and control.
- ‘Sacrificial Giving’: Members may first be asked to tithe part of their income, which gradually escalates into pressure for ‘sacrificial giving’ that ties belonging to financial contributions. The fear of rejection or damnation for not giving enough reinforces compliance.
- Surrendering Assets: In extreme cases, members are compelled to surrender all their money, belongings, and property to the cult or its leader.
- Forced Labor: Members may be forced to work long hours for little or no pay, essentially becoming ‘willing’ slaves for the profit or benefit of the leader.
- Fear-Based Demands: Financial demands are often coupled with fear-mongering, such as apocalyptic prophecies or threats of catastrophic consequences for leaving, ensuring continued financial support out of desperation.
By systematically breaking down individuals’ autonomy and exploiting their raw emotional pain, mind control cults create a closed system that enables ongoing financial and emotional abuse.”
MIND CONTROL CULTS EXPLOIT FAMILY DIFFERENCES
I asked Google AI: How do mind control cults and exploit family differences?
Google AI said: “Mind control cults exploit family differences by using social isolation tactics to separate members from their support networks, thereby fostering dependence on the group. They target pre-existing family vulnerabilities and conflicts to weaken members’ autonomy and make them more susceptible to manipulation.
How Cults Exploit Family Differences
- Targeting Vulnerability: Cults often recruit individuals during times of transition or stress, such as job changes or bereavement, when they may be more emotionally vulnerable or have existing poor family relationships.
- Encouraging Isolation: A primary tactic is encouraging members to cut ties with non-member family and friends. This is achieved by disparaging or discrediting outside relationships, framing them as ‘worldly,’, ‘unspiritual’, or a threat to the member’s well-being or salvation.
- Creating ‘Us vs. Them’ Mentality: The group fosters an ‘us vs. them’ or ‘saved vs. unsaved’ worldview, making members believe safety and truth exist only within the cult. Family members who raise concerns are portrayed as misguided, persecutors, or even ‘demonic’, reinforcing the member’s belief that they must distance themselves from their family.
- Inducing Guilt and Unworthiness: Cults manipulate members’ emotions, making them feel that their former family life wasn’t ‘good enough’ or that their natural feelings and needs are selfish or wrong. This emotional control includes ‘identity guilt’ and ‘social guilt’, which weakens self-esteem and makes the individual more dependent on the group for validation.
- Replacing Family with the Group: The cult creates a closed, highly controlled social environment that replaces the family unit, demanding rigid loyalty and attention. Members are often required to seek permission for major life decisions, effectively transferring all authority from the family (or self) to the cult leader.
- Phobia Indoctrination: Cults instill irrational fears about leaving the group or questioning authority. Members are led to believe that terrible consequences, such as eternal suffering, insanity, or harm to their ex-family members, will befall them if they leave.
- Manufacturing Conflict: Within the group, leaders may manufacture conflict or revive old alliances and antagonisms among members (or regarding outside family members) to maintain power and control.
By systematically eroding a member’s support network and sense of self, mind control groups create dependency and ensure obedience to the leader’s goals, which are often exploitative. For more information and support resources, consider visiting the International Cultic Studies Association (ICSA) [ … https://internationalculticstudies.org/ … ] website.”
CONCLUSION
Hope this is useful. You may be able to spot these tactics in groups around you, for instance. You might then ask: Is this a mind control cult? Is this a confidence gang? Is this some other group with similar tactics?
God bless you all
And keep you safe,
And be with you
Through all your days!
In love, light and joy
This is Alice B. Clagett.
I Am of the Stars … and so are you!
Written and published on 26 December 2025; revised on 17 February 2026
NOTE: In this post, quotes from Google AI are in light blue font.
Image: “Escape,” adapted from image by MF Gallery from Pixabay – Pixabay License
Image: “Escape,” adapted from image by MF Gallery from Pixabay – Pixabay License
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