I’ve been watching scientology documentaries and out of curiosity I started looking at other cults. They always seem to gloss over the actual beginning of them with a vague handwave of “the leader was charismatic and knew ro target this specific group of people”
I’ve just been struggling to imagine the group leaders of things like Heaven’s Gate starting a shitty self help seminar in a community center to actually get the first few members
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People believe whatever a charasmatic person says, charasmatic person starts to take advantage of that testing what people will believe etc, and it’s a slow build up from there until the charasmatic person is surrounded by yes people who are completely indoctrinated by them. See Scientology, Mormonism etc
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