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The group has been described as a cult by ex-members and numerous media outlets. [6] [12] Ex-members accused the group of physical abuse and sleep deprivation, with members allegedly only being allowed to sleep for 4–5 hours a night. [6]
Combating Cult Mind Control is a nonfiction book by Steven Hassan, first published in 1988.The book presents itself as a guide to resisting the mind control practices of destructive cults, and focuses on the research of Margaret Singer and Robert Lifton as well as the cognitive dissonance theory of Leon Festinger.
The “club”/cult was founded by Marc Tizer in Boulder, Colorado in the 1990s, but now operates primarily from a ranch in New Mexico. Tizer, also known as Yousamien or Yo, is described as the organization's coach and also as its guru , [ 2 ] and former members of the club have further called him a "manipulative, alcoholic, sex-addicted despot ...
As Merriam-Webster defines it, a cult can be as simple as “a great devotion to a person, idea, object, movement, or [work.]” And if we’re being honest with ourselves, most of us aren’t ...
Crowley first described the rite in a tract titled Eroto-Comatose Lucidity. [7] The ritual as described by Crowley involves one "ritualist-seer" and several aides. [1] [8] Donald Michael Kraig advises that the more sexually experienced the aides are, the better the ritual works, [1] and that the aides be members of the opposite sex. [1]
A sleep paralysis sufferer may perceive a "shadowy or indistinct shape" approaching them when they lie awake paralyzed and become increasingly alarmed. [ 13 ] A person experiencing heightened emotion, such as while walking alone on a dark night, may incorrectly perceive a patch of shadow as an attacker.
Maria Manaseina (1860) Maria Mikhaĭlovna Manàsseina, also known as Marie de Manacéïne, was a neuroscientist who specialized in the area of sleep deprivation. [1] She was born in Korkunova in 1841 and died in Saint Petersburg on 17 March in 1903.
Documents obtained by The Washington Post and the ACLU showed that Ricardo Sanchez, who was a Lieutenant General and the senior U.S. military officer in Iraq, authorized the use of military dogs, temperature extremes, reversed sleep patterns, and sensory deprivation as interrogation methods in Abu Ghraib. [38]