What is cult mind-control?
The cult mind-control theory holds that “cults” recruit and maintain members within their group by annihilating their power of choice or free will. The reason this is referred to here as “cult mind-control” and not simply “mind-control” or “brainwashing” is that anti-cultists believe that cults can achieve this without the use of physical coercion. Check any of the anti-cult sites for the way they think this is achieved (deception, exhaustion, etc). Others, among which the vast majority of scholars who studied this question, think that there is no ground for such a theory and that it merely amounts to a fear-inducing and superstitious belief.
