Cults are complicated. As a form of social groups, cults' members are connected by unusual influence networks, and could commit deviant acts that crossed social boundaries. The idea of an individual joining a group and using their entire saving and asset for the group sounded absurd, but has actually happened before. How is it that some cults are extremely successful in completing changing an individual and make them dedicate their lives on something that is, what the observers would usually attribute as, utterly nonsense. How is it that a single charismatic individual can demand so much from other people. These are all questions that have been asked on multiple occasions. The complexity of cult consist perspectives, process, and dynamic
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All done through little steps, for instance, a long length speech that might last for 2-3 hours. Individuals can leave but with peer pressure and sense of embarrassment, it isn't likely to happen. After that, your brain will make sense of your action, forming a connecting between positive emotion and your action of staying. As your rise that stair case, the cult leaders can begin to make demands, from delivering resources to separation with outside friends. Your attitude and behavior are being adjusted at that point. If the cult is successful, everyone begin to share ideas and thoughts about outside world, they share identical identity, attitude, and behavior. You are surrounded by people that think just like you do, behavior consist of your idea so there are no conflicts. At that point, this is the critical moment. Different leader may have different responses to this. If everyone are same, the leader can be happy that he or she formed such collective group; But part of the reason that many of these leaders that go into this is because they are power-triggered, they love power and the idea that people are following him or her. So in that moment, when everyone is collective, the cult leader can't practice power due to its 'perfectness'. It is at this point, the cult leader will ask more intense demands, which can lead to destruction. Four phases can be found in the creation of a cult. As Dr. Zimbardo explained,
All done through little steps, for instance, a long length speech that might last for 2-3 hours. Individuals can leave but with peer pressure and sense of embarrassment, it isn't likely to happen. After that, your brain will make sense of your action, forming a connecting between positive emotion and your action of staying. As your rise that stair case, the cult leaders can begin to make demands, from delivering resources to separation with outside friends. Your attitude and behavior are being adjusted at that point. If the cult is successful, everyone begin to share ideas and thoughts about outside world, they share identical identity, attitude, and behavior. You are surrounded by people that think just like you do, behavior consist of your idea so there are no conflicts. At that point, this is the critical moment. Different leader may have different responses to this. If everyone are same, the leader can be happy that he or she formed such collective group; But part of the reason that many of these leaders that go into this is because they are power-triggered, they love power and the idea that people are following him or her. So in that moment, when everyone is collective, the cult leader can't practice power due to its 'perfectness'. It is at this point, the cult leader will ask more intense demands, which can lead to destruction. Four phases can be found in the creation of a cult. As Dr. Zimbardo explained,