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Beware of the Cult Awareness Network November 13, 2006

Posted by Niels in : Life, the universe, and everything, Personal , trackback

I just finished reading Margaret Singer’s Cults in Our Midst. The book is disturbing.  As much as we take pride in our resistance to influence, there are groups out there that are able to profoundly change people’s worldviews within a very short span of time.

The Cult Awareness Network used to be a powerful resource for those whose friends or family had been seduced by a cult.  However, the legal fees stemming from a series of lawsuits from Scientologists bankrupted CAN, following which a Scientologist bought the company.  The unwitting who now call the CAN for help find themselves confronted by an organization that now has, shall we say, a somewhat different set of priorities.

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