Dr. Robert J. Lifton on Destructive Cults

[xSilverPhinxx]

Very interesting, thanks for uploading!

[CMO5569]

LOL I'm sure there were a lot of Marxists in the room but there is a Flaming Marxist at 50:23 socially awkward moment .. Hilarious. Thank you for posting this , this guy really knows his stuff.

[slaveshipmutiny]

watch Indigo Society -spiritual community or New Age Mind Control forum? on my channel

[mondosolorzano]

I heard he worked for the CIA under the MKULTRA program. His books might be psychologcial warfare material. The CIA may have created this rumor.

[selinakyle]

Thanks for posting this video! I'm just finishing Margaret Thaler Singer's Cult's In Our Midst, which I'd highly recommend. Lifton is definitely next on my reading list!

[Diosibundo]

WOW.

This is GREAT! How come I never heard of this guy before? Anyone know the name of his book?

[XENUTV]

"Destroying the World to Save It"

There's a link to more info on Lifton in the video description.

[Diosibundo]

@XENUTV

Hey XenuTV, I really appreciate your work! Any more by Lifton?

[sandycurrie108]

@Diosibundo Robert Jay Lifton has just published a new book called "Witness to an extreme century"...he is VERY smart ...he teaches at Harvard Medical School. He definitely knows his way around brain science, trauma, near death experiences, survivor guilt, etc.

[naughtmoses]

@Diosibundo Her's written a number of remarkable books since his breakthough volume on Chinese brainwashing (rather as it was displayed in a limited way in Bertolucci's Oscar-winning, 1987 film, "The Last Emperor"). Read carefully, Lifton clarifies how we are all subject to lesser forms of "cultic" influence via the commercial media, our schools and churches.

[Simanda]

Faved, since it's very very late here and I need to go to bed. I'll watch it tomorrow.

[Tobygold1]

Lifton is the classi intellectual who unfortunately throws out the baby with the bathwater. The bow tie gives it away! Every religion in the world started out as a 'cult'. Someone had to lead. But we all have a personal responsibility to reflect on the direction our faith takes us.

[Diosibundo]

@Tobygold1

I wish someone WOULD throw out the religion baby out with the bathwater! Youre right, theyre ALL anti-rational cults

[wayout71]

This is FASCINATING.

Thank you so much.

[SirSmokeal0t]

Wow, this is a treasure of information!

Thanks for sharing this with us WBM, wish i could've been there.

Also: notice how the CoS fits a lot of the cult descriptions.

[Jangaboo]

i think also people are stressed out with their lives and they might not enjoy it and so this cult gives them this image of a new life and change and also how they'll be important in that change...stroking their ego to say they are on the right path while others are not

[mephigog]

Here is a speaker where I knew after the first minute this would be worth watching the whole hour.

[AnonOutreach]

What's interesting is the symbiosis between leader and followers. One cannot exist without the other.

[Dreadpirate46]

All followers need to realize is that they should be their own leaders. If you need faith, have faith in yourself. You don't need someone to tell you what you should do. Do what pleases you and if it pleases others, that's a bonus. But at the end of the day, the only person you can and should count on is yourself.

[Redshift21]

I only wish someone had put a question to him about the Co$

[Trypp505]

WBM has struck gold once again.

[XENUTV]

Click the link in the description to find out more about Lifton. His is one of the most important voices in the field.

[MyHabbits]

Very enlightening indeed. *Standing Ovation*

[robhugo]

Dare I say you're putting up sacred texts

[bootrix]

Oh my, did not the "Cultic behaviors" relate to the Cult of Scientology like a form fitting glove??!! Wow, amazing stuff from what appears to be a very "Wise" man!! Thank you for this, I am getting more educated everyday thanks to this type of information!!

[EpicFaiIGuy]

I love listening to interviews/lectures about Scilonology .. Bring us more Mark!

[vibrohm]

this one is absolutely amazing! this man knows his stuff!

[theothertube]

Great stuff. Thanks Mark.

[EdwardHowton]

When was this recorded?

[XENUTV]

3/17/00

[Caesar512]

ooh, new material

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