Mind control (also referred to as brainwashing, coercive persuasion, and thought reform) refers to a broad range of psychological tactics thought to subvert an individual's control of his or her own thinking, behavior, emotions, or decision making. Brainwashing and mind control theories originally developed to explain how totalitarian regimes were thought to indoctrinate prisoners of war through propaganda and torture techniques. These theories were later expanded or modified to explain a wider range of phenomena,especially conversions to new religious movements (NRMs). Since their application to NRMs, mind control theories have been especially controversial within scientific and legal contexts, and currently most social scientists agree with the stances taken by the American Psychological Association and American Sociological Association, which have found no scientific merit in them.
Psychological/ thinking - so you are in church and the preacher is teaching "God's Word," he is shouting and it makes you angry at the "enemy." As the service moves on, you feel enpowered b/c the preacher is speaking if "redemption", "freedom of spiritual bondage", "and salvation". Towards the end of the sermon he slows down, his voice is lowwer, the music starts to play, and he calls for the lost souls to be "saved". This is not by accident, as it has been a psychological attack that has been used by Christians since the birth of Christianity. As a "Christian" you no longer have a spiritual ID, you are as one body. You no longer think for yourself, but rather ration your decissions based on what Jesus would do or want you to do. Your life is completely controlled and influenced by religion. Its how you determine what is right and what is wrong.
Totalitarian - a political system where the state, usually under the control of a single political organization, faction, or class domination, recognizes no limits to its authority and strives to regulate every aspect of public and private life wherever feasible. Totalitarianism is generally characterized by the coincidence of authoritarianism (i.e., where ordinary citizens have no significant share in state decision-making) and ideology (i.e., a pervasive scheme of values promulgated by institutional means to direct the most significant aspects of public and private life).
Totalitarian regimes or movements maintain themselves in political power by means of an official all-embracing ideology and propaganda disseminated through the state-controlled mass media, a single party that controls the state, personality cults, control over the economy, regulation and restriction of free discussion and criticism, the use of mass surveillance, and widespread use of state terrorism. aka THE GREAT AWAKENING , THE SECOND GREAT AWAKENING, (and the effect on slaves)
Propaganda - is a form of communication aimed at influencing the attitude of a community toward some cause or position. As opposed to impartially providing information, propaganda in its most basic sense, presents information primarily to influence an audience. Propaganda often presents facts selectively (thus lying by omission) to encourage a particular synthesis, or uses loaded messages to produce an emotional rather than rational response to the information presented. The desired result is a change of the attitude toward the subject in the target audience to further a political agenda.
New religious movements - (NRM) is a faith-based community, or ethical, spiritual, or philosophical group of recent origin. NRMs may be novel in origin or they may be part of a wider religion, such as Christianity, in which case they will be distinct from pre-existing denominations. Scholars studying the sociology of religion have almost unanimously adopted this term as a neutral alternative to the word "cult". They continue to try to reach agreement on definitions and boundaries.
An NRM may be one of a wide range of movements ranging from those with loose affiliations based on novel approaches to spirituality or religion to communitarian enterprises that demand a considerable amount of group conformity and a social identity that separates their adherents from mainstream society. Use of the term is not universally accepted among the groups to which it is applied. NRMs do not necessarily share a set of particular attributes, but have been "assigned to the fringe of the dominant religious culture", and "exist in a relatively contested space within society as a whole".
Christianity was once a NRM. At the time of its birth African, Asian, Latin and Indian cultures and societies reverenced religion and science as one. They understood, and new what most of spend our entire lives searching for - truth.
for reference, and source please visit wikipedia.com, and http://www.pbs.org/wnet/slavery/experience/religion/index.html
aslo search list of new religious movements
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- sugahmamma
on Nov. 25, 2009 at 9:40 AM