From: mcelwre@cnsvax.uwec.edu
Newsgroups: alt.recovery
Subject: MIND-CONTROL By ORTHODOX Religion
Date: 5 Nov 92 01:14:45 GMT
Organization: University of Wisconsin Eau Claire


          

                       MIND-CONTROL by ORTHODOX Religions
          
               For the first twenty years of my life I was a Missouri 
          Synod Lutheran.  For six years during grade school, I had to 
          attend church and Sunday school nearly every week.  Every 
          Saturday I was forced to WASTE a lot of time memorizing Bible 
          verses and quotations from Martin Luther, for recitation 
          during Sunday school.  Most of these memorizations were about 
          Lutheran DOCTRINE, rather than Christian living.  This is 
          MIND-CONTROL. 

               For two years during 7th and 8th grades, I had to spend 
          Saturday mornings attending "Confirmation Class".  During 
          each of those two years we had to go through a long list of 
          memorizations (MIND-CONTROL) for the class. 

               Several times during the second year we had to get up in 
          front of the congregation and recite quotations or respond to 
          questions fired at us by the preacher.  The intensity of such 
          experiences makes them a form of MIND-CONTROL.  So was the 
          public "Confirmation" ceremony at the end of the two years. 
          
               All of this was backed up by stated and implied promises 
          of Heaven and THREATS of ETERNAL TORTURE in Hell.  They 
          actually had me believing that a God of LOVE would send 
          people to BURN IN HELL FOREVER just for failing to believe 
          the teachings.  Such a SCARE-TACTIC is the ULTIMATE form of 
          MIND-CONTROL. 

               And I was sent to these MIND-CONTROL sessions by people 
          (my parents) on whom I was COMPLETELY DEPENDENT for ALL of my 
          living needs--food, clothing, shelter, EVERYTHING. 

               The MIND-CONTROL tactics described above are really NO 
          less extreme than those allegedly used by the "Moonies", and 
          the result is THE SAME. 


               Fortunately, UN-like most people, I was able to DE-
          PROGRAM myself.  The trigger came in mid-1968 when I read the 
          book "Edgar Cayce--The Sleeping Prophet" and came to the 
          chapter about REINCARNATION.  Since then, I have been 
          learning the TRUTH about many important things--religious, 
          political, historical, economic, even "scientific", in spite 
          of a continuous barrage of BRAINWASHING official-LIES and 
          HALF-TRUTHS from the government, CONTROLLED news media, and 
          "education" systems. 
          

               The reason there seems to be little interest so far in 
          Eckankar, Sant Mat, etc., is because most people have been so 
          thoroughly BRAINWASHED by orthodox teachings. 
          


               UN-altered REPRODUCTION and DISSEMINATION of these 
          IMPORTANT ideas is ENCOURAGED. 


                                       Robert E. McElwaine
                                       2nd Initiate in Eckankar