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  • Nantes, France, November 2017 After interviewing former cult members, researchers from the Addict Ology and Psychiatry department at Nantes University published the results of their study.

  • Their conclusion.

  • What makes someone want to join a cult is a feeling of deep dissatisfaction with life and a need for personal development.

  • Although this may sound obvious, is also a bit frightening, especially since those same trade supply to millions of people, perhaps even you.

  • You can have political cults.

  • You can have therapy cults.

  • You have new age cults.

  • You have channeling cults.

  • You have karate cults.

  • Probably you could find a chocolate chip cookie cult if you wanted to.

  • So accounts can be built around any type of belief system.

  • And we see that not only in our country but around the world today, with the rise of this sort of push for hatred and violence.

  • So it's something that is very prevalent.

  • Unfortunately, this will not stop.

  • I don't wanna be naive in our organization.

  • We received about 5 to 10 called related complaints a day from families of the victims and they also around the same place, and we find out it.

  • 7% of our society are psychopaths and social Bates and worse than that, 25 to 30% off our society.

  • Families somehow, directly or indirectly, are suffering from cold abuse.

  • Each one of us could be susceptible to falling prey to many of these cult like groups because every single one of us is seeking meaning.

  • We want to understand the big questions of life.

  • We want to know why we're here.

  • We want to have a sense of direction.

  • We want to have a sense of community way.

  • Want to be a part of something, and that's what a cult offers.

  • It offers you all of the things that you're looking for, except it's a wolf in sheep's clothing.

  • One of the difficulties is pulling yourself out because if you look in long enough and you're in deep enough, you don't have a way out.

  • And so I encourage people to be supportive of former members trying.

  • Be sympathetic.

  • Don't be judgmental.

  • People join cults because they wanted to improve themselves.

  • They had no idea they were falling into these traps or war Texas of pain and torture.

  • So could you be a member of a cult right now, even as we speak.

  • No, not you.

  • Don't kid yourself.

  • Anyone who joins others and the collective demonstration of shared needs could find themselves in a cult.

  • But whether that cult is benign or deadly is the bigger question.

  • Hopefully, you or someone else won't have to die before you learn the answer.

  • Until then, you'll just have to let the matter remain, I'll explain.

Nantes, France, November 2017 After interviewing former cult members, researchers from the Addict Ology and Psychiatry department at Nantes University published the results of their study.

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