One student on campus who is a member of the ICC made daily phone calls to another student she was attempting to recruit. Two times calls came at midnight. The ICC UP student started requesting that her potential recruit call her every morning at 6 a.m. to report what she was learning in her quiet times. According to Burtner, sleep deprivation is a common tool employed by cults. Tools like this help to short-circuit a person's thinking process, he added.
Ethics is now redefined.
Last week at Elmer's, Rainwater paged through her journal trying to remember what it was like when the ICC pursued her. She left UP after spending last year in Salzburg. She is now a student at Multnomah Bible College. After one of her Bible studies, Rainwater was given an assignment. She was to take a list of sins home with her.