How To Tell If You Are In A Cult

Brain suspended from puppet strings. A concept shot for all forms of mind control, including religious, political, and social modern-day cults.

What are the 14 signs that you might be involved in a cult?

All cults will tell you that they are not a cult. Follow your inner guidance system. You absolutely know when someone is pulling the wool over your eyes by those flashes of burning questions, irrational answers, and authoritarian insults, teachings, and not-so-subtle comments. It is a very uncomfortable feeling.

Notice when you are beginning to deceive yourself in order to go along with the group-mentality. If you have been searching for friends or like-minded people in your quest for more knowledge, pay close attention if and when people try to mold you into someone who you are not. They may even appeal to your sense of dignity, self-esteem, or other manipulation tactic.

Stand up for yourself and do not allow anyone else to rule over your life.

Do you feel like a puppet on someone else’s string?

Not all cults are slovenly. Not all cults admit they are a cult.

Decide for yourself what limitations you will allow on your personal free will, personal power, personal reputation, and who it is who holds the keys to your pocketbook. Is it the person you live with, your boss, or some other religious, political, or social club leader your boss, or are you the boss of you?

Many religious, political, and social groups lately are showing tendencies toward cult-like membership. Pay attention to how you feel when you are with groups such as this. That is your signal to leave.

I advise leaving any group of any ilk that inspires you to fear, hatred, aggression, violence, and all those who operate with a bully mentality. These individuals are also not your tribe, and not worthy of your friendship nor association.

You are better than that. You are more whole as an individual than that, no matter how lost you might feel. Seeking the lowest common denominator as a model for your life is how to destroy yourself and everyone and everything around you, including the democracy of the United States of America.

Do not listen to the wolf in sheep’s clothing encouraging you to belong to false information, conspiracies, lies, and innuendos. Don’t feed the frenzy. Leave the chaos.

Instead, opt for inspiration that uplifts your mind, body, and Soul. Reach for courage, integrity, and a magnanimous spirit. The more you use these affirming attributes, the more they will feel second-nature to you.

You are in charge of you. You do not need a boss or fearless leader (or any leaders instilling fear within you). You are in charge of you, not any rabbi, priest, minister, guru, organization, club, or any other outsider.

Follow your gut instincts. Your heart knows and recognizes the vibrational frequencies that match your own. Your heart also recognizes all those vibrational frequencies that make you feel sick, nauseous, overworked, weighed down, compromised, and sold out.

Also notice when your questions are not exactly answered, or are answered in a repetitive manner, which really does not answer your question(s).

Here are 14 Cult Markers to watch out for^[1]:

1. The group displays excessively zealous and unquestioning commitment to its leader, and (whether he is alive or dead) regards his belief system, ideology, and practices as the Truth, as law.
2. Questioning, doubt, and dissent are discouraged or even punished.
3. Mind-altering practices (such as meditation, chanting, speaking in tongues, denunciation sessions, or debilitating work routines) are used in excess and serve to suppress doubts about the group and its leader(s).
4. The leadership dictates, sometimes in great detail, how members should think, act, and feel (e.g., members must get permission to date, change jobs, or marry, or leaders prescribe what to wear, where to live, whether to have children, how to discipline children, and so forth).
5. The group is elitist, claiming a special, exalted status for itself, its leader(s), and its members (e.g., the leader is considered the Messiah, a special being, an avatar, or the group and/or the leader is on a special mission to save humanity).
6. The group has a polarized, us-versus-them mentality, which may cause conflict with the wider society.
7. The leader is not accountable to any authorities (unlike, for example, teachers, military commanders, or ministers, priests, monks, and rabbis of mainstream religious denominations).
8. The group teaches or implies that its supposedly exalted ends justify whatever means it deems necessary. This may result in members participating in behaviors or activities they would have considered reprehensible or unethical before joining the group (e.g., lying to family or friends, or collecting money for bogus charities).
9. The leadership induces feelings of shame and/or guilt to influence and control members. Often this is done through peer pressure and subtle forms of persuasion.
10. Subservience to the leader or group requires members to cut ties with family and friends, and radically alter the personal goals and activities they had before joining the group.
11. The group is preoccupied with bringing in new members.
12. The group is preoccupied with making money.
13. Members are expected to devote inordinate amounts of time to the group and group-related activities.
14. Members are encouraged or required to live and/or socialize only with other group members.

I advise you to stand up for your God-given gift of free will and break from them.

All modern bibles are correcting the word “among” to “within” in Luke 17:20-21, as the Interlinear Bible in Hebrew Greek English agrees. Even older bibles add a footnote on the word “among” sending the reader to the bottom of the page where it explains that it means “within.” Jesus taught humanity that the Light of God, which is the Light of the Kingdom, is within each one of us. That is precisely the answer Jesus gave to the Pharisees who asked him when to expect the Kingdom of God to come.

This is the very reason Jesus was crucified, because he taught that the Love (Christ) and the Light (Wisdom) of His Father, who is the Almighty Creator of All Creation, was within Him AND within you and me. He dared to preach the truth. He equated Himself with God. THAT is why Jesus Christ is our Savior, to enlighten us to this fact. THAT is what He came to teach us. He never came to die a gory death on the cross for Original Sin, which is the sin of the fallen angels, not the sin of Eve or Adam or you and me.

You are animated by Eternal Universal Life Force Energy. That is what animates your Soul. It is not part of your human mind, nor body. You have a Spark of Eternal Universal Life Force Energy experiencing in and through your life, until you make your ascension, reuniting with Eternal Universal Life Force Energy.

Use your free will to get out of the cult.  Use your free will to vote. No one owns the rights to your mind, your voice, or your life. Your life, body, mind, and Eternal Soul belong to you. Call someone you can trust, not a cult leader.

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[1] MIND GAMES: Characteristics Associated With Cults – By Janja Lalich & Michael Langone | RIELPOLITIK

Namaste

Why We Should Not Go By Appearances ~ The Father of Fake News

The Fairness Doctrine made the important distinction between broadcast and cable news. Now the FCC says it is OK for the media to lie to us and pretend they are telling the truth. How do you like being duped?

Appearances and momentum capture the attention so easily that we sometimes confuse what we see, hear and think to be the truth of what we are seeing, hearing and thinking. Magicians know this and use this when they trick their audiences about what they are seeing and hearing, ultimately affecting their thinking.

No, this is not a comical bit from a Friends TV episode. The reality is, sometimes we delude ourselves into thinking that what we are seeing and hearing is real because we literally saw someone doing something, and heard them say it. No one would ever lie to us, right?

We need to be smarter humans. Whether the subject is religion, finance, or politics, it is never advisable to listen to only one side before we make important decisions. Look past the drama, the popular mantra of the group, the wishful thinking and look clearly at the facts, the real and accurate facts.

Many of us have allowed others to confuse our thinking. At these times, we are choosing to step out of our own personal power by listening to others because they seem to be louder, more sure of themselves, or seem to be in the know. If they are pontificating erroneous fictions as if they were facts, how is anyone to know without personal investigation?

Television, radio and social media does not serve the public like it used to do before the days of President Reagan when he vetoed the regulation that the news media had to profess the truth in what they reported. How many of us know that the television news media and some of its counterparts are more interested in the advertising dollars they attain over telling the actual truth which they have consciously decided not to tell?

Keep in mind that it is the conservative entities (not liberals), usually Republicans (not Democrats) who own most of the media who are pushing hardline, rightwing spin to appease the huge corporations and conglomerates who pay for the advertising that makes the TV, radio and print media possible. No one ought to lose their jobs for telling the truth.

We do not help ourselves nor our country when we focus on the fictional reality, such as Fox News with its many hosts, and quote the deception they promote as if that was real. Anyone with a grammar school education, who can read, is able to get to the bottom of the truth of the matter. We do not need to take someone else’s view point, then say, “There are so many confusing viewpoints out there. I do not know what to believe.”

Stop watching fictional news. Go to reputable sources. How do you know the difference?

Go to mainstream news outlets: Reuters, AP, NPR, New York Times, Washington Post, BBC, Wall Street Journal, The New Yorker, Bloomberg News, The Atlantic, and Politico. All these news outlets tell the truth based on facts of actual events and history without spin of a particular political party.

Don’t choose ignorance and confusion over accurate facts. We know fact and fiction are different things, but when people in high profile places tell us something, and we have something to gain by listening to them, we can easily fool ourselves into believing what we want to believe over what is true and factual.

It is better for us all, and for our country, to base all our decisions on real and true facts. Facts do not have opinions, they just are what they are.

It is time to move past choosing sides, as if we are ordering our favorite Kentucky Fried Chicken meal, or picking our favorite sports team. Facts are not interchangeable with fiction.

This is a critical moment in our history, between the Presidential Election of 2020 and the Inauguration of President-elect Joe Biden and Vice-President-elect Kamala Harris, who won in a free and fair election. No one stole the election. Voters in every state as well as the electoral college have certified on this President-elect. These are provable facts.

On January 5, Democratic Senator Candidate Jon Ossoff is challenging incumbent Senator David Perdue earlier in the day in the first runoff election, followed by a second runoff election between Democratic Senator Candidate Raphael Warnock and incumbent Senator Kelly Loeffler.

Georgia voters will be the ones to decide which political party controls the U.S. Senate, since the protracted vote count in the previous election did not result in winners in either race.

Democrats need to flip both Senate seats to have unified control of the White House and Congress. Again, every vote in these elections matters.

Stagnation and the inability or unwillingness to work together works against the democracy this country has long fought for. Perhaps it is time to step out of the molasses and take a new breath sweeping through our land at this time.

Since we are a country of law and order, now is time for us to be lawful and orderly and do what all government officials and everyone in the military have sworn their oath to do, which is to serve and protect the Constitution of the United States of America, not any particular person.

Remember, the Constitution of the United States of America was written because of the abuses of King George III of Great Britain usurping the rights of the people of the 13 colonies. Our Forefathers, representing all citizens then and now, shunned an autocratic king ruling over the USA.

Recognize that this past Presidential Election was run as all previous elections have run, with in-person, and absentee ballots. Absentee ballots include provisional and mail-in as our military have always used and been counted after the election, since they voted on Election Day, often out-of-state or out of the country and required being mailed in to be counted after that day. This is nothing new.

Absolutely no one stole the 2020 Presidential Election. It’s called counting all the ballots because every vote counts. As mentioned above, there were no illegal votes/ballots. This has also been documented by Republican appointees of Homeland Security.

When it comes to counting ballots, ballots that have been cast for one side or the other are not illegal ballots, nor are absentee ballots illegal. This is perhaps the biggest lie being touted today, as if only Republican or in-person votes are legal. That assumption is false no matter who says it. Facts are facts, and history is history.

However, if we do not align ourselves with democracy we will be aligning ourselves with non-democracy, with a ruler who is an autocrat, a tyrant, a dictator, a king and the like.

Saying the economy is great because the stock market is doing well, while ignoring the rest of the 90 percent of the citizens who are lining up in countless food lines, losing their jobs, their homes, their very lives, is not the real test of how “great” the economy is.

Now is the time to stand on accurate facts while we can. It is possible to lose democracy. I believe most of us do not want to do that.

God Bless Everyone Everywhere

Radiance of Love ~ Honor ~ Integrity ~ Truth Heals Disharmony ~ Deception ~ Greed ~ Lies

“Where your attention rests, there flows your life.” Ascended Master Light, Saint Germain Press

Whether its relationships, elections or anything else in life, whatever you focus on grows. There is energy to your thoughts. Now is the time to switch focus to healing our lives and our nation by building up rather than tearing down.

What do you wish to heal?

The radiance of love is all encompassing, turning dark to light, unrest to rest, and division into unity. It can happen in the blink of an eye. There is no need to dwell on what is not serving you, destroying your peace and joy, and upsetting your days.

You are not the victim of your moods. Your moods are the victim of your own thoughts. That is the supreme self-sabotage. Your thoughts do not choose you. You choose our thoughts each and every time.

Lesser mortals will try to place blame on another person, place or thing, but the reality is that when you finally decide you are sick and tired of any person, place or thing, you decide to do something else, put on different music to lift the spirits, or change your activity to something more productive. Until you decide to do that, you immobilize yourself. It is always your choice.

We are all the creators of our own realities. There are no victims here. Maturity helps us to realize that the light of our life is God in action within us. We can always choose better and do better. When we make mistakes as all humans do, we acknowledge it, forgiving ourselves and others, and move on.

Narcissists and egomaniacs have a hard time with these points because they do not comprehend how every dysfunctional thing around them is not the fault of others, or could possibly be their own fault, since to their warped and sick thinking, they are perfect in every way.

How do we move on when things turn out not as we had planned or invested our precious time and money in?

Staying stuck solves nothing. Having adult temper tantrums and blustering negative thoughts, words and actions into the stratosphere, only serve to embarrass the immature child inside the adult body. But all hope is not lost.

Instead, manifest the radiance of love, honor and integrity in your life. No matter where you are in this world, and upon which man-made version of self-important caste-class-ruler system you go by, you can decide to think, speak and act with more love, honor and integrity today than you did yesterday.

You improve on thoughts, words and actions of honor and integrity by ending the sabotage of yourself and others. Change is the inevitable part of life. Things never stay the same. That would be stagnation.

Shine your light on truth. Allow more knowledge in. Do your own research as opposed to spouting the group think-tank propaganda. Question any and everything that limits the God-given freedom with which you were born, religiously, politically, spiritually and physically.

Do the honorable things. Walk in integrity. When you do this, you become a blessing of light and love to this earth. We all need more of that.

Namaste

Good Friday ~ Litany of Supplication

God Bless