Cult

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File:Eyeswide1.jpg A fictional elite cult with human sacrifices in Eyes Wide Shut.

In its modern meaning, a cult is a religious group with a hierarchical structure, unquestioning loyalty to a leader, stress on secrecy, and members who often dedicate all their time and money to the cult, they make ideal projects to support or co-opt for deep state needs, especially by intelligence agencies like the CIA.

Problems with word

The word cult refers to a religious group whose beliefs and rites, often regulating freedom of association and thought, are regarded as deviant by the surrounding society. Many new religious movements against the social mainstream are now called cults in a negative sense. By designating these groups as cults, the aim is to portray them as dangerous to their own members or society.

Elite cults

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A small selection of celebrities presenting the one eye symbol (or alternative the number 6, as in 666). The number of celebs who have done this is astounding, indicating some sort of secret cult influence.

A third rail subject, but certainly a subject of deep politics, are "elite" cults. The accusations often concern occult secret societies of very powerful individuals, and often involve child sexual abuse and human ritual sacrifices that can be done with impunity due to the societies ability to cover up. Much of the evidence of their existence and activities remain circumstantial, see satanism.

Selected examples

There is no commonly agreed definition of a "cult", although the term is generally understood as derogative. Generally applied to a fairly small number of religious groups, and associated with frames of mind control and exploitation of the gullible, lonely and otherwise vulnerable.

While they may evolve independently from within an existing group (such as a church), cults can also be deliberately created by external agencies to fulfill particular purposes. Jim Jones, for example, who took hundreds of followers to Guyana as part of the People's Temple, has an interesting history.

The Unification Church (The Moonies)

The Unification Church was started in 1954 by Sun Myung Moon. He was also politically active.

The Finders

Full article: The Finders

The Finders was a US Deep state backed cult first exposed in the 1980s by a report of semi-feral children in a public park. It was briefely suspected of involvement in child sex trafficking and production of child pornography, but a cover-up operation has obscured it.

The People's Temple

Full article: The People's Temple

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The People's Temple was a cult run by Jim Jones, a drug addicted paedophile who appears to have been under the control of The Cabal. It lead to the events of Jonestown, portrayed as a mass suicide in Guyana, South America.

John of God

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Joao Teixeira de Faria and Marina Abramovic

Full article: John of God

Joao Teixeira de Faria, a brazilian healer and "psychic surgeon" who has been accused of running "baby farms" where young women were held captive, forced to give birth to children and were murdered after ten years. The children were allegedly being sold for between £15,000 and £40,000 in Europe, Australia and the United States. Before these allegations he was lauded by celebrities like Oprah Winfrey, actress Shirley MacLaine and Marina Abramovic. Firearms and large quantities of cash were found in a house used as a spiritual retreat. After an arrest warrant was issued, he was on the run for a week. The journalist who exposed the scheme, Sabrina Bittencourt, reportedly took her own life in February 2019. The circumstances of here suicide were difficult to verify in the beginning. He was visited by Naomi Campbell and according to some unverifiable reports also by Bill Clinton. Marina Abramovic visited him for her documentary "The Space In Between: Marina Abramovic in Brazil".

Disputed examples

Scientology

Full article: Scientology

Scientology was started in 1952 by science fiction writer L. Ron Hubbard. It is a (pseudo-)scientific movement that offers increasingly expensive training to its devotees. It is well funded, litigious and former members report it as ruthless. In the 1990s it was active in internet censorship - using intellectual property laws to get the anon.penet.fi remailer shut down. In some countries it has been classified as a religion (making it tax exempt). The German government has been active in opposing it.Template:Cn

Language

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“The language of the totalist environment is characterized by the thought-terminating cliché. The most far-reaching and complex of human problems are compressed into brief, highly selective, definitive-sounding phrases, easily memorized and easily expressed. They become the start and finish of any ideological analysis.”
Robert J. Lifton (1961) 

Other uses

Although characteristic, traditional religious ideology not essential to a cult; the label has been applied to secular concepts such as neoconservatism, a reference to their totalising nature. The word is usually to minorities, so it would be unusual to talk, for example, of the "cult of democracy" or "cult of party politics".

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