Strategies to Improve Critical Thinking Skills Strategies to Improve Critical Thinking Skills.

Strategies to Improve Critical Thinking Skills.

Former Cult members often ask themselves and sometimes struggle with "how could I have believed in that for so long" or "why could everyone else see it was a cult but I couldn't"?
Development in thinking requires a gradual process requiring plateaus of learning and just plain hard work. It is not possible to become an excellent thinker simply because one wills it.

Here are 9 strategies that any motivated person can use to develop as a thinker:

1. Use “Wasted” Time.

2. A Problem A Day.

3. Internalize Intellectual Standards.

4. Keep An Intellectual Journal.

5. Reshape Your Character.

6. Deal with Your Ego.

7. Redefine the Way You See Things.

8. Get in touch with your emotions.

9. Analyze group influences on your life.

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University of Arizona

In an effort to help educate students and faculty about the red flags of cult activity and recruitment on college campus - We've left messages and sent e-mails to the University of Arizona to offer our Free educational materials for all faculty and students.

We're hopeful they'll respond to our offer.

All university students and staff should be educated about cult activity and recruitment on campus!

If you would like free materials for your high school or university please contact us via Facebook message or e-mail us via our website.

IT CAN HAPPEN TO THE BEST OF US...

A touching e-mail we received recently:

"Hi, I am greatly touched by Sharoni's story. I spent time near Naropa as a dance student in the University in Boulder and at one time in my life got involved with a dark character and lost my otherwise healthy and functional self, IT CAN HAPPEN TO THE BEST OF US, I went on to study various holistic means of reconnecting with love and truth through self empowerment and meditation. I would love to be of help through online support of those struggling to reclaim sanity. If I could reach the parents and friends of Sharoni I wish to send them love and peace."

You will know your kid is in a cult when....

We receive calls and e-mails daily from parents and family who have loved ones in cults. Here's what one family we're working with has to report and this is why we are so dedicated to raising awareness and preventative education.

"You will know your kid is in a cult when you hear things such as: "I'm happy, everyone is nice, I'm not into the material world, and money doesn't mean anything to me".

There are dramatic and troubling concerns when you send your kid to college and instead of getting a college education, they get indoctrinated into a mind numbing, controlling cult, where they get up at 4 am to chant the Hare Krishna mantra under the influence of transcendental meditation (no thought) on their wooden beaded necklace. The necklace has 108-beads on it, and you have to do the mantra 16-times for each wooden bead, which equals no less than 1,728 times a day, every single day, that's 630,000 times a year.

The group's insistence that your kid sell the groups fantasy scripture books and also recruit others unknowingly instead of enjoying time with friends and family, especially over the holidays.

Work 10-12 hours a day and spend time only with the group each and every day, which includes chanting the mantra, mediation, learning scriptures, singing, dancing, playing the same music, but mostly free slave labor for the group's activities i.e. cooking, cleaning, serving food, sell books, recruit others and getting further indoctrinated away from reality each and every waking hour with only the group and no other outside influences like family, friends, newspapers, TVs, non-group books, current events.

The pseudo personality, trance-like, robotic-like unrecognizable loving kid is no more, yep the kid has been so controlled and influenced and under so much stress, duress, anxiety and fear."
If you know of Cult Recruiting and activity happening on a University Campus, please e-mail us with specifics.

Guy Miller Ministries / Church of Life in Christ in McKeesport, PA victim complaint

We recently received a report from a victim of Guy Miller Ministries / Church of Life in Christ in McKeesport, PA, who claims that Guy Miller is acting as a cult leader (those who do not follow his will and dictates are excommunicated from the church and shunned by remaining family -- the victim is being shunned by both parents and siblings at this point). The report goes on to say that Miller is using undue influence to keep his congregation under his control, manipulating them with fear and guilt, as well as putting a great deal of pressure on members to tithe a set percentage of their gross incomes.

If anyone has any information they would like to share about Guy Miller and this church in McKeesport, PA, please contact us immediately.

We are having a Grand Opening!

Families Against Cult Teachings, Inc., in conjunction with the Hollywood Healing Center, would like you to join us for the opening of our new rescue / healing center. Please join us for refreshments and hors d'oeuvres while touring our offices, and receive information about the important work we're doing to help cult victims (especially kids and teens) escape their destructive situations, in addition to learning about our public awareness and education campaigns, especially concerning students (who are the most common prey for cults), in addition to a host of other anti-cult related activities.

• When
  Sunday, March 15 at 4:00 PM to 8:00 PM

• Where
  Families Against Cult Teachings, Inc.
  1801 Polk St., Hollywood, FL 33020

Going Clear movie release!

A great new film about Scientology is about to be released called Going Clear, focusing on the "Prison of Belief" and how difficult it is to leave once you are in.

"Going Clear is not only the single best film or television show made about Scientology, it’s masterful storytelling and it packs a serious punch squarely at the people who have allowed the organization’s abuse to go along for so long. Tom Cruise and John Travolta, you are now on notice."

Read the full article here.