Since 2013, Families Against Cult Teachings (F.A.C.T.) has been helping victims and families of cults, undue influence, group exploitation and abuse to heal and recover while exposing the guilty parties. Our mission is to support a more informed public where prevention is achieved through education and to see justice brought to light in cases of cultic abuse and trafficking.
Thought Control based on Steve Hassan's BITE Model.
How can anyone control this part of another - How we think and analyze things, process information, our Thoughts?
It happens more often than we'd like to admit or think. Commercials and advertising to a large degree control the thoughts and ideas we have about our purchases, what we think we need to have or buy.
If our belief system is so strong within a group, leader, church etc, we may fall vulnerable to other's manipulation of our opinions, ideas of what's right and wrong, what is truth and what is not etc.
Here is a basic list of what this Thought Control technique is made up of and what to look out for.
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or Support or want to Tell Your Story please feel free to fill out and submit one of
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The father of three of Larry Nassar's victims who
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says he will donate more than $30,000 from an online fundraiser created
in his name to Michigan groups that help survivors of sexual assault.
In many groups, such as Scientology, Jehovah's Witnesses etc it has been reported that Information Control is a key component in their policies and practices. For instance, in Scientology it is quite common for family members and friends to write reports on each other in an attempt to get one "on the straight and narrow or on the program" again. A wife could write a report on her husband for drinking to much alcohol, or a friend may write a report on something their friend confided in them about, such as an affair or a personal issue they are having. Every Scientologist has an "Ethics" file where these reports would go. Scientologists are encouraged to not read or watch the news, they are discouraged from reading or studying anything that isn't Scientology doctrine. Sea Org members (the members who sign the billion year contract) can receive mail, but their personal mail is opened and read before they receive it and if anything negative regarding Scientology is written then the Sea Org member would be instructed to "handle" or disconnect. Meaning, handle the person who wrote the negative comments to the point where they are no longer negative on the subject or they would need to disconnect from them.
Steve Hassan says:
"Many people think of mind control
as an ambiguous, mystical process that cannot be defined in concrete
terms. In reality, mind control refers to a specific set of methods and
techniques, such as hypnosis or thought-stopping, that influence how a
person thinks, feels, and acts.
Destructive mind control
can be determined when the overall effect of these four components:
Behavior Control, Information Control, Thought Control and Emotional Control - promotes dependency and obedience to some leader or cause; it is not
necessary for every single item on the list to be present.
Like
many techniques, it is not inherently good or evil. If mind control
techniques are used to empower an individual to have more choice, and
authority for their life remains within themselves, the effects can be
beneficial. For example, benevolent mind control can be used to help
people quit smoking without affecting any other behavior. Mind control
becomes destructive when it undermines a person’s ability to think and
act independently."
If you or someone you know would like to Report a Cult, Need Help and
or Support or want to Tell Your Story please feel free to fill out and submit one of
the forms on our website:
Here is just one example of the Complaints, Pleas for Help & Reports/Allegations we receive on a daily basis.
Allegations we received about an entire County - Solano County, CA:
"Solano County abuses families, violates mothers rights and pit our children against us. I still don't know where or what happened to my daughter. Even though she is an adult the government and a 3rd party organization shouldn't be dictating my family members such as my daughter. My daughter was fine at home and there wasn't anything wrong with my daughter living at home. A family is a lifetime event and a relationship that lasts a lifetime. However Solano County has way too many 3rd party family service programs staffed with people who hide behind titles like Youth Counselor, Social Worker, Case Worker that mislead the youth and families.
Seneca Center misleads families and the youth everyday and have been misleading and violating the rights of family and the youth for years. No one at Seneca Center is being held accountable for their malicious manipulative influences that have pitted and divided mothers from their children. The director of Seneca Center and the rest of the staff members with Seneca Center create this misleading YouTube videos like they are an organization that helps reunite mothers with their children. But the truth is Seneca Center isn't really reunited mothers with their children. Seneca Center does the opposite, they lure mothers and their children to their offices and gain their trust then they turn on the families and lure the youth away from their home, then don't tell the parents where they lured the youth to go. Then the parents worry, panic and go livid. Then parents call authorities and other county officials and then the parents realize these places abuse the situation even more. Then as a parent or mother your left powerless and stripped of your rights to know where your child ended up. Then years go by and your child is lost in the mix, abused in a adult foster care system that abuses families.
My daughter didn't need to be in adult foster care or in a group home ever. Seneca Center and the system use the system to build their careers off the backs of mothers and their children whether they are minor or an adult. Doesn't matter what age they are, people operate non profit family service programs that are geared to abuse and violate the family unit.
Solano County California in Vacaville, Fairfield and Vallejo surrounding region is systemically oppressed, because of the local government preying on our families and the excessive mismanaged youth organizations misleading the youth and influencing the youth to flee home with the web of lies and false promises the mismanaged youth organizations feed the youth. That is why my daughter was taken and I haven't seen my daughter for 5 years. The government and the mismanaged family service programs staffed with people are predators, liars and hoarders of people's family members such as the adult youth and minor children.
My daughter was systemically kidnapped, manipulated and then lured to go with staff members from Seneca Center that lied, misled and push their undue influences by wrongly taking advantage of my daughter. I tried to find out and stand up to them then I was left powerless because the system is corrupted by everyone working throughout Solano County. They wouldn't leave me and my family alone. Then they eventually got to my daughter and she was misled by these people. No one listened to me they just judge, make up a web of lies, create false accusations about me and then go behind my back and pit my daughter against me. Then take her and do what they want with her and push their radical agendas on her too.
I am not the only mother that had their rights violated by Solano County employees, Seneca Center and other 3rd party mismanaged family service programs that prey on families, mothers and the youth. The group created, Justice for Mothers and Recall Judge Carrington in Solano County California.
Solano County is operating like a communist regime. The local government is kidnapping our children and taking them. Then families are tied to a court system trying to get their children back but the judges, lawyers and the Solano County employees are all corrupt using our families to build a career off the back of children, the youth and mothers.
Solano County and the people who work throughout the county do manipulative things to pit our families against each other. Then force us to be tied to the system for years on end then they use the youth and mothers where in most cases mothers and children are left powerless because of the overwhelming amount of corruption across the board. "
Please remember at this point these are only allegations. If you have
any information and/or experience with this either positive or
negative, please contact us.
In an effort to help those who are struggling with family or friends involved in high control groups, cults and abusive relationships and to help educate the general public, we're writing a series of articles that will give you very specific information to try and help you understand how and why people get involved in these types of situations, why they stay and some things you can do to be effective in your efforts to help them.
A recap of the last few articles in this series, with links.
The most effective way to help someone who's involved in these type of high control groups, cults or abusive relations is to
stimulate their Critical Thinking Skills.
Recruiting Techniques on College Campuses and Why young adults and college students can be a prime target for cults
Moving forward on the blog series today we're focusing on what Behavior Control is based on Steve Hassan's BITE Model. "Many people think of mind control
as an ambiguous, mystical process that cannot be defined in concrete
terms. In reality, mind control refers to a specific set of methods and
techniques, such as hypnosis or thought-stopping, that influence how a
person thinks, feels, and acts." Steve Hassan.
If someone Believes in what a particular group, church, individual, cult is offering
and they feel it is one of the most important parts of their life,
these type of Behavior Control techniques are then easily imposed on
them.
If someone is involved in a group or situation where these points are practiced it can easily be understood and seen as to how ones Behavior can / is Controlled and Manipulated.
This list is by no means inclusive, but will give you a good idea of what to be aware of.
The next few articles we'll continue to highlight the BITE Model with the next article focusing on Information Control.
If you or someone you know would like to Report a Cult, Need Help and or Support or want to Tell Your Story please feel free to fill out and submit one of the forms on our website:
We receive e-mails and calls daily asking for help and support from victims.
"Assembly of Yahweh in Bethal, PA is a cult. Please help me get my daughter back"
Although we'd like to help every single victim who reaches out to us, we are very limited in resources. We hope to double or triple the amount of help we can offer to victims this year. Any help you wish to gift will go a long way to reaching that goal and is extremely appreciated.
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We've heard about these types of horrific stories before! 13 siblings were rescued in Perris, Ca from unimaginable conditions of torture by the hands of their own parents. Absolutely horrific!
The children were starved, beaten, tortured and deprived for years! Some of the children were shackled to furniture. The children, ages 2 to 29, were so emaciated the older ones
still looked like children. Authorities thought the 17-year-old daughter
who escaped and called 911 was only 10 when they found her.
Long time Riverside County prosecutor has this to say:
"They develop a kind of cultish doomsday type of religion where the
father becomes this mythical leader and the mother and children's duty
is to serve the father,"
Many will ask why did it take so long for one of these siblings to escape and go for help.
History has taught us that parents convicted in similar cases exerted extreme control over their children
though intimidation, psychological and physical coercion, and in addition the parents frequently
possessed their own belief system, which they would brainwash their children into believing and then practicing.
Vulnerable children growing up in these abusive, torturous circumstances are conditioned and raised to believe that their only source of survival is with their abusers. They are cut off from society, from an education, from television, from playing with other kids etc. They are psychologically, physically, emotionally and mentally stunted!
Preventative education is essential, being inquisitive and alert to the people, children, groups, churches etc that are around us is essential and is all of our responsibilities.
The extraordinary amount of courage and strength these 13 siblings posses - to have endured so much - our hearts and prayers go out to them.
Please visit our website to educate yourselves and your loved ones about manipulation, predatory personalities, high control groups / cults and abuse.
