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Researches prove human mind and body are shaped and manipulated using
self-criticism, etc.
The major victims of thought reforming have been the prisoners of war, but it has
been applied to from a naive citizen to the intellectual one. The main target of it could be
college and university students aged from 18-25 who are easy to brainwash. Moreover,
recently divorced male and female, diffident, overcurious, people with too little religious
study fall victim to the thought reformation process and become part of cult.
The Unification Church is one the alleged cult or religious group to employ the
brainwashing for recruitment. They approach the potential recruits in insidious and
themselves as a member of any unheard welfare community which works as front group
of Unification Church. Later on, potential recruits are invited to visit the group to know
more about it. Gradually, they are brainwashed while the real identity is kept secret and
eventually they become active members. (Singer M.H. Coercive Persuasion, May 21,
1978)
It happened exactly the same way with Steven Alan Hassan, a renowned licensed
Unification Church imposes certain teachings on new recruits. Firstly they are
forced to detach from the outsiders to strengthen spirituality and they are kept busy in
activities like fund-raising, recruiting new members, etc. so that they may not ponder
David Molko, Tracy Leal and Barbara Dole are ex-Moonies who filed a case
against UC’s manipulative and deceptive recruiting techniques and coercive persuasion.
They stated that the recruiters made advancement toward them telling that they belonged
to a social group called “Creative Community Project” and asked to attend a gathering.
According to Molko, upon his asking about group’s nexus with any religious
organization, they simply denied and kept it clandestine for months which, later on,
turned out to be the Unification Church. Though they were not forced to join, they fell
When they joined the UC, Molko was 27, Pennsylvanian lawyer newly settled in San
Francisco; Leal was 19, from Santa Clara County on temporary stay in San Francisco to
reach Humboldt State University; and Dole was 19 from University of California,
Berkeley, campus.
They presented statements by Margaret Singer and Samuel Benson who strongly
war. However, the verdict was not in favor of plaintiffs. The case was dismissed
declaring that no evidences were found which could prove that the UC’s act of hifding
In another case of ex-Moonie, we find a different view. Sylvia Buford expressed her last-
more frightening - more insidious than I can ever explain. I suppose the
word is Utopia. The Unification Church was the closest I ever came to
Utopia. In spite of what angry parents say, the Unification Church doesn't
(http://www.ex-premie.org/gallery/news/1977/30247580.html)
She further says that UC’s confines are suffocatingly limited and she would not
like to revert to ‘life of non-choice’. Sylvia shows mixed feelings of love and hate.
rather than gaining control over it. It promotes collectivism on the whole, not on
It does brainwash as we can observe that educated people did incline toward it, but
reverted soon.
References
Stoner C. & Parks J. A. (n.d.). The Cults: Salvation or Slavery?. Retrieved April 27,
2010, from http://www.ex-premie.org/gallery/news/1977/30247580.html
Barker, Eileen. (1984). The Making of a Moonie: Choice or Brainwashing?, United
Kingdom: Blackwell Publishers