Organizational and individual stress resulting from pressuring employees to participate in cultic management training and growth seminars. Misuse of charitable status in order to secure money for business and other noncharitable purposes. Education Denial of, or interference with, legally required education of children in cults. Misuse of school or college facilities or misrepresentation of the cult's purposes, in order to gain respectability. Infiltration of established religious groups in order to recruit members into the cult.
Cults also harm society in important indirect ways.
Furthermore, the majority seek the protection guaranteed by the Bill of Rights, even thought their ultimate goal is to eliminate the very freedom they claim for themselves. This question is especially important today because the American cultural identity has fragmented. While these two camps have been battling, a third value system or world view, rooted in eastern mysticism and issuing from the humanistic psychology movement, has worked itself into the American consciousness. Commonly called the New Age movement , this world view's fundamental tenet is that men are blind to the fact that they are all one, that they are all God, and that they are all capable of developing superhuman capacities. But on the fringes of each world view, zealots, many of whom belong to well-organized cults, seek to remake the culture in their own image.