WHY THE CULT RECRUITMENT-INDOCTRINATION PROGRESSION
MUST HAPPEN FAST- LIKE A ONE-TWO COMBINATION PUNCH

            In this blog entry, I return to two important videos I have previously recommended to my visitors, which have inspired me to take a broad look at my initiation into AMORC membership and how I eventually progressed to a state of intolerable inner turmoil and rebellion a few years after I began, but still could not leave.

            One of the things Stephen Hassan says in Who is Most Vulnerable- What to Watch Out for, is that the reason most people become entrapped in a cult is their sheer ignorance of occult recruiting. Now, in Hassan’s case and in the case of Life in a Cult- Cult Education, both of them were lured in by what I believe could be called an idealistic goal, a desire for a better, more meaningful life.  So was I, in a way, but I had also the goal to obtain financial prosperity- and I thought that AMORC would give me an edge in the competitive world of upward mobility as it, indeed, promised.   As both Hassan and Janja Lilich point out, you just don’t know what you’re getting into when you touch down on a cult.

            But AMORC is different than Steve’s Unification Church cult or Lalich’s Marxist-Leninist, Democratic Worker’s Party in so far is recruiting is done remotely, not in person. A 1981 film, Ticket to Heaven, available on YouTube, demonstrates some of these first person, face-to-face tactics. The methodology is to, as Lalich says, give them the “bum’s rush’- get the new recruits to sign up as fast as possible by enticing them with promises, friendship and a lot of extra attention.
            Why so fast?
            The reason for this is quite simple. You want to pass on to the indoctrination stage as fast as possible so you can forestall any serious rational thought kicking up. 

            Let me review what is really happening in these face-to-face groups before I explain AMORC’s style of recruitment and indoctrination. In these groups, a recruiter needs to close the deal rapidly- create a member out of an ignorant consumer fast enough to push them immediately into a mind control scenario, a scenario which quickly triggers the growth of a cult personality, a personality that has built in defenses and blockages against rational thinking. In other words, you must pull them into the cult and then expose them to conditions that cause them to somehow immediately grant the cult some kind of authority, something worth listening to, something worth investing time in immediately- and then drop into the torrid pool of mind control. Once in that initial warm bath of friendship and big promises- fatigue them, make them more suggestible, deepen their commitment by putting them quickly into a trance state through various methods- deep breathing, chanting slogans, ritualistic dancing, wearing items that identify them with cult- make them buy into the promise of the cult and, once they are identified, then drop some strong, powerful warning about what could happen to them if they leave.
            In AMORC, there is generally no live recruitment- but rather an advertisement or a brochure-, which elevates the group to the level of cosmic authority, discovered by its famous former members- like Leonardo da Vinci, Benjamin Franklin, Sir Isaac Newton. Thomas Jefferson, Pascal, Spinoza. If you buy into the reality of this- without extensive searching- then you might listen to their pitch and sign up.
            No, in AMORC, there is no big group meeting at the beginning- but you do set up your inner sanctum and dive into their mind control program- and as explained in by my books, the Prisoner of San Jose and AMORC Unmasked, you quickly are kept busy reading authoritative monographs, doing trance-inducing exercises and spending all your time supplementing your real life with activities until, if you are a serious student, you become very tired and anxious, often feeling you are not doing enough. Unlike the person-to-person recruiting I have explained above, this is what I call remote indoctrination, a technique of recruitment and indoctrination by print or media, which can, indeed, accomplish the same goals.             But in all cases, the new member needs to get the “bum’s rush…”- because if he has the time to research or think, all is lost as far as AMORC and other cults are concerned.