In a cult intervention information is presented about the group that the member is most often not aware of.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
When people leave cults, they don't know that they left a cult.
This may sound insulting to some of my cult studies friends, but there's a lot of cult studies people who ignore, shall we say, the wider canvas - because they simply don't know about its existence or they don't know how it operates.
One person's religion is another person's cult.
The best method for preventing destructive cult involvement is preventative education. If students and the public at large are more aware of destructive groups beforehand they may better understand and resist their recruitment efforts.
When families observe a later, deeper stage of cult involvement they may find it necessary to consider the involvement of a professional such as myself in an intervention effort.
On the web the thinking of cults can spread very rapidly and suddenly a cult which was 12 people who had some deep personal issues suddenly find a formula which is very believable.
Successful cult memes induce intense social interaction behaviour between cult members. This trips the attention detectors.
I'm certainly not a person who spends their every waking moment soaking themselves in signs and signals of the sort that cult studies people study; and it's partly, I suppose, because some of those signs and signals aren't worth bothering about. You have to be selective about these things.
What's a cult? It just means not enough people to make a minority.
A cult following is a nice way of saying very few people like you.