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Posted in: Aum's former poster boy Joyu finds a new gig See in context

60 Minutes flew me to Japan right after the war in subway attack by Aum Shinrikyo to be their on-site expert on cult mind control. My books, Combating Cult Mind Control and Freedom of Mind was published in Japanese. Joyu was featured as representative of the cult. In my opinion he is someone no one should trust unless or until he agrees to cult counseling and at least a year of counseling from therapist trained to help programmed cult victims!

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Posted in: Young people easily get sucked into Aum Shinrikyo spinoff Aleph See in context

I have been helping people avoid cult groups like Aum for 36 years, since leaving the Moonies. It doesn't surprise me in the slightest that even though the guru has been exposed and convicted as a felon (Sun Myung Moon too is a convicted felon- of a much less serious set of crimes) but people's memoires are short and influence is powerful.

The only answer is massive public education and awareness about this phenomenon. I call upon all former members of destructive cults to speak out- tell neighbors, friends, coworkers, the media, politicians! Write books. Set up web pages. Go onto wikipedia and give facts to counter the teams of cult members using wikipedia to recruit.

Steve Hassan freedomofmind.co<>m

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