And to acknowledging that it is a tall order to root community and connection in love (noting that community and connection are not themselves inherently positive – think Jim Jones/Jonestown). Thing is, we have the capacity to meet this tall order. What we need is commitment to the daily ...
MyHuskyhas never peed in the house, but housebreaking him was a total pain. We got him when he was six weeks old. The first thing I did when I got him home was to carry him to the portion of my backyard that I wanted him to use. I think the key was my carrying him and not ...
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The YFZ Ranch was Warren Jeffs’ Jonestown. Though the compound was located near a major highway, and only 50 miles from San Angelo, Texas, Jeffs created an environment where his followers’ psychological isolation was close to complete. In Short Creek—and later the ranch—Jeffs ordered tha...
Pack leadership can have many other effects on the human brain and as well as human behavior. This helps to explain group behavior including horrific examples such as those who practiced genocide during World War II or committed suicide at Jonestown. Becoming a pack leader can have important biol...
Inevitably, he moves to cults, the Moonies and the ultimate persuasion horror story, Jonestown. Not so inevitably, he avoids hysteria and demonization, even of Jim Jones, and points out that brute force is required at the extreme end of the persuasion spectrum. Levine's final chapter offers ...
(Jonestown-style)? So, you bring up the point that needs to be addressed before we can really commit ourselves to the fight and the struggle to change that is being required of us. But I offer that I have never found anyone able to shake or even threaten the principle I have found ...
They're organized to seem as if the good of the group is the goal of the cult, when in actuality all activities are designed to benefit the leader of that cult. Jonestown, the Heaven's Gate, and the Manson Family are perhaps all tragic examples of this.[1] 4 Learn as much as ...