Determine whether that individual did, in fact, adopt, affirm, or reject those ideas or beliefs on his own. Then, if necessary, all that should be examined is the behavioral processes used, not ideological content. The characteristics of coercive persuasion programs are severe, well-understood, and they are not accidental. Coercive persuasion is not a religious practice, it is a control technology. It is not a belief or ideology, it is a technological process.
Coercive persuasion is antithetical to the First Amendment.
It is the unfair manipulation of other's biological and psychological weaknesses and susceptibilities. It is certainly not a spiritual or religious technology.