Steven Hassan - Cult Mind Control Exit-Counseling and the SIA (2003)

Steven Alan Hassan, cult counselor and mind control expert is a Nationally Certified Counselor and licensed Mental Health Counselor and has developed a breakthrough approach to help loved ones rescue cult mind control victims. He is a former member of the Moon cult. Ex-cult members and others seek him out for specialized counseling to help them recover from symptoms other mental health professionals are not trained to address. Hassan has been at the forefront of cult awareness activism since 1976 and is the author of two critically acclaimed books -- Combatting Cult Mind Control: The #1 Best-selling Guide to Protection, Rescue, and Recovery from Destructive Cults (1988) and Releasing the Bonds: Empowering People to Think for Themselves (2000). Hassan has 30 years of frontline activism exposing destructive cults, providing counseling and training, and appearing in major media including 60 Minutes, Nightline, Dateline, Larry King Live, and The O'Reilly Factor.

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[patriotadEEUU]

Didn't want to watch video on my crappy cell. What is it this man speaks of? I really don't listen to any so-called experts, especially if they appear on the mainstream media. Does he talk about propaganda, disinformation, indoctrination through shcool textebooks, movies, etc? Does he say anything about men like Joseph Goebbels and Edward Bernays who clearly mind jobs?

[machwon]

@patriotadEEUU He's a cult exit counselor, not a conspiracy nut ideologue.

[FeatheryBird]

What happens when the cult IS your biological family? A Cult of personality so to speak, controlled and dominated by a Patriarch?

[machwon]

@FeatheryBird Depends, do they fit Lifton's 8 criteria?

[MarioBrothaYT]

That person that gave you a thumbs down is a cultist.

[MsPsychobanana]

What this Hassan guy is offereing is GOLD. Very insightful, practical and helpful. I am so grateful for this posting. Thanks you!

[MsPsychobanana]

@MarioBrothaYT This YouTuber is just being attacked about pro-Zeitgest, Scientology people and other cultists. They likely don't even watch the vids, the just thumbs down in. What this Hassan guy is offering is GOLD. Very valuable info. Thanks for posting!!!!

[ho0liganz]

@machwon I'm actually torn though... I think you doing a great thing by saving these people however i also feel that our brains work in strange ways in which we may never fully understand, so why fight nature? rather than save the people why not use the methods to start your own cult? a cult that offers you a better life? is that not the ultimate goal in the end anyways?

[ho0liganz]

@machwon I feel that with computers and the internet growing we are entering a time of enlightenment an knowledge (i hope) and as we do the inner workings of things like cults and the government will be understood more and tolerated less. I also feel that our society has been controlled by religion for so long that something apocalyptic will happen when theyre further exposed and you my friend are a pioneer in that revolution! 

[IGOROZKARSKY]

YOU JUST CANNOT REASON WITH AN INSANE (Religious) PERSON:

There is something in the bible (N.T.) about "A SLAVE WHO LOVES HIS CHAINS,

CANNOT BE FREE". This needs to be taken into consideration about the Muslims.

Some of the Muslims, simply love their BONDAGE, don´t kid yourself !

[IGOROZKARSKY]

ONE OF THE MOST DANGEROUS THING IN THE WORLD,

ARE PEOPLE WHO DO NOT THINK FOR THEMSELVES, &

WHO LET THEMSELVES BECOME ROBOTS, WITH INBUILT

TAPE-RECORDERS, WITH PRE-RECORDED, PREDICTABLE,

MESSEGES. JUST LIKE PARROTS.

[Henrydec]

I was a full time moonie for 6 months and not yet fully indoctrinated but left to please my family. For the next 9 yrs I still believed Moon was the messiah. This was before the advent of the internet. One day when I was surfing the net for the first time in 1998, I typed in unification church and it reported that his son Hyo Jin Moon was a drug addict, wife beater, womaniser etc. We were taught his children were perfect. Suddenly dawn on me I was deceived and now I know Moon is a false prophet