You have no or few ego defences up for which pain or torture would be needed to breakdown. Coercive persuasion is not a religious practice it is a contol technology. It is antiethical to the First Amendment AND free will in a bonafide religion. It is the unfair manipulation of biological and psychological weaknesses and suceptibilities. It is a technology not of free society but a criminal or totalitarian society.
Coercive persuasion is also antiethical to sincerity and good faith.
Any organization using coercive persuasion as a central practice that also claims to be a religion is a contradiction of terms. Katz court went on to note that what really happens when you engage in an examination as to whether these nonphysical coercive processes amount to mind manipulation or faith, that you are inviting courts and juries to make an ultimate determination as to the value and truth of the religious practice. And on that basis, on the basis that the court cannot do that the court struck down that statute. . . And, particularly, religious beliefs. Well, Mr. Lieberman has probably avoided, for his clients survival sake, reading much, if anything, about coercive persuasion.