Reducing harms caused by cults and mind control is only possible with your help. Please help us continue this work . Thank you so much. There are a good many people already dead or dying, ill or malfunctioning, crippled or developing improperly as a result of their involvement in cults. According to cult expert Dr. Margaret Singer, an estimated 5,000 groups have used tactics of coercive mind control to deceptively influence 20 million victims in the United States alone in the last ten years, including 2.5 million at any given time.
Worldwide figures are even greater.
Reports of members of diverse cults committing illegal and reprehensible activities are widespread. Child abuse in cults is common, and children are often cults' most devastating casualties. Even children not harmed physically rarely receive formal education or develop correctly on emotional, social, and cognitive levels. Cult members not only abuse children, but also murder, lie, steal, falsify documents, perform satanic rituals, and attempt suicide. Many suicides are not highly publicized as were those of Heaven's Gate and Jonestown, because they occur quietly, one at a time, as individuals are pushed beyond their capacity by mind control.