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Sects and false prophets

According to single estimates on the churches registered official and apart from denominations - 74 were like this last year - there is sect working in more hundred illegalities in our homeland. From their existence, we hear of them being active generally already simply if somebody joins to one from our environment, and breaks the contact with us because of this, or if a scandal being eager to get onto a title page becomes round around them. Since who not it would have heard onto a suicide, onto a sexual relation continued with underage ones, onto bodily mortification encouraging, from sects ruining their members psychical?! From the sects' development, from his operation principles, we talked with renowned specialists about their leaders' personality.

With a substance centre the world...

Dr. Pressing Lajos, the agent of the Hungary Buddhist Mission from the beginnings, that is we asked it about the circumstances of the sects' development.

- The motives differing very much behind the sects' formation may be at a standstill, it is not possible to assert equality between them because of this just. Different values and practice are represented. Reporting the sect periodically and culture changed - reported a school simply once -, onto our days but received a pejorative overtone: the fanaticism, striving for the exclusiveness, it reminds people of the antisocial behaviour. It hides for the sects taking shape in his background often, that the single part of the faithful ones is disappointed in the institutional religions since they are them his practice compromises for them. That is the intellectual functions that the people would expect from them cannot be filled into the social practice already embedded, their contact is lost with the spirituality. The sects at this time - on the case of the intellectual claims and his balance disturbance between the material-social existence - they appear, and they start blooming.

- Our ancestors practised their religion in little groups once. The advertiser of the faith and believing walls were not built of different ceremonies...

- My own faith, staying at the Buddhism, this certain degree there is today in this manner. A diverse school exists peaceful beside each other. Some spotlight the religious practice: less formalised, than for example the Christianity, and this helped to preserve the strength of the religion. But returning to the sects: the leaders in the body contact, schoolmasters may report serious attractiveness, with which he is various, "false gurus" easily may abuse.

- You why the sects' single part turns into extreme one?

- One of the reasons of this may be that he is the modern man possibly totally planed around himself his environment, the historical one and the intellectual one likewise, than the natural one. His view of life quasi primitive one-sided one, became with a substance centre. As if the whole society would be at a standstill under the effect of the drug of the consumption. E extreme eruption experiments may appear as the reaction of extreme life practice in a religious direction.

- The young persons why they are more susceptible to the sects' call?

- This generation became uncertain totally, is in serious crises of value. There are not directing principles along which he could digest the downpouring information set successful for him. The deficiency of the becoming unsettled and the private resources, being accompanied by the intellectual-religious need easily into communities like that controls the young persons where secure is felt, and their claim for intellectual goods may be fulfilled.

- What could be the solution?

- I donot know. Fundamental restructuring heavy to imagine, since all this from the civil system, results from our social settlement. It is necessary to think after all the alternative lifestyles social let him force us to a new settlement on accepting him in case he is a potential cataclysm.

"Making a confession only an is"

It National Psychiatric Neurological Institute the year of a week affects an Religion Psychology Class. His leader dr. Ferenc Süle.

- Our psychiatric class 40 concubines, but not only within lying, but we supply visiting patients. We supply a patient fighting some 30-50 religion psychology problems annually. Our ambulant traffic for this approximately the threefold.

- Doctor, actually we the religion?

- From all viewpoints he did not manage to formulate a satisfactory definition yet. Very much theology, we know a cult and a rite, but it seems that very much are the common element beyond the surface depth psychologywise, and the soul on deep one's, than common human phenomenon, making a confession only an is.

- Why the sect formation intensified in the latter decade?

- It belongs to the sudden increase of the sects' number, that the you are unstable in a critical state psychical being people - primary young persons, women and man with a low qualification - they feel drawn towards the newer religious movements degree, already only because of their special mentality. I experience that they are the psychiatrists at the same time, psychotherapists, there are not clinical psychologists preparing for the cases like this properly since the education of knowledge is religion psychology in our homeland the soul doctor does not figure in specialists' training.

- It is not possible to treat the religious small communities because of that fortunately. They are beside the destructive ones with a constructive character, useful groups.

- A religious community which can be qualified as destructive then psychological spoils it if his members' free personality development is hampered by him. But it is not allowed to forget that there are personalities like that, who a sectarian narrowed down simply they can stay in a community in spiritual balance. The new movements' formation is a general phenomenon in the different societies. He is a positive phenomenon basically since this is connected to the search of the renewal. But the new solution manners several wrong, indeed dangerous road, a situation may be created, destructive forms may be produced. We have to deal with the phenomenon of the sect formation because he means serious mental-hygienic danger to many people. Interesting tendency anyway, that market economy viewpoints appear on the area of the religion. A creator ascribed the scientology and dianetics to L. R. Hubbard quoting a saying: "Becoming the millionaire is his fastest manner in our days if somebody founds a new religion." And he proved this.

- I am begging you let him list some new religious movements!

- Without the claim of the completeness: with the constructive character which can be found between the successors and destructive community. They are attached to the Christianity: Jehovah's Witnesses, the Mormon Church, the Uniter Church (Mun sect), Mandram, the Congregation of the Faith ("Hit Gyülekezet"), the Seventh-day Adventist Church, the New Apostolic Church, the Family (a God's Children). Variant with a hindu root the Transcendental Meditation (TM), Hare Krisna movement, the Yoga tendencies, the Tantric hinduism and the Sai Baba-movement. Buddhist variants - here primary not it original, but it is necessary to think of the western variants - the zen-buddhism, Nic-heren Soshu (Soka Gakkai), the tantric and the tibetan buddhism. Movement with an Islamic root the Sufism, Meher Baba followers, the szubud. Into a separate group purchasable the theozofists representing the strong integrating endeavours and antropozofists. Shamanistic movements the shaman cults, Castaneda Don Huanja. Magic centre movements the different occultist and spiritualist groups, witches, Satanist. Secular, onto scientism citing religious movement the dianetics and scientology, Synanon, the Silva mind control, the Erhard training, Darnell training, certain political currents and some natural healing tendencies. They yet Amway network here it is enumerated. The harmful sects' peculiarity anyway, that their leaders refer to the original doctrine, its essence is falsified though, deforming it is displayed. You are the original doctrine doctrines many times only the luring his devices. For example referring to the christian affection the Family sect appears in that manner at - deforming the concept and expanding -, that the tabus are lifted yet, and in this manner into it between many people yet with the own underage child truth a sexual life fits into it.

- For the destructive communities why so strong their attractiveness?

- The infectious disease spreads quickly and more effective, than for a health truth movement. Beside this many men you are destructive the institutionalized deduction of his pathological need is insured.

- A sect it is possible to recover from spiritual injuries caused by?

- With the suitable specialists' help rather longer, than under shorter time. The deciding factor of the recovery generally on the religious movements' space truth proper knowledge, the inner culture, the development of the intellectual life, into the given community systems (family, school, workplace) truth onto creative new one dividing up and acting participation.

Pathological gurus

- The sect formation not are typical of the christianity simply, likewise can be found in the buddhism, than in the islam, or in the hinduism - says it dr. Mária Szilágyi psychologist.

- You what creates these religious small communities?

- Our age is technicist. Our educational system serves the development of our left cerebral hemisphere making the rational thinking exclusively while it is ethical, emotional, spiritual, spiritual upbringing was squeezed into the background. Acquiring the astonishing amount of knowledge sets meanwhile the young persons emotional flatten, and they cannot wrestle if he arises in that manner the onto them with rushing emotional loads... They need help at this time. The different sects' leaders recognize this excellent, advocate, and - quasi the deficiency to be substituted - they enter it got confused into young persons' life.

- One became uncertain on a side, stumbling youngsters, what the gurus who know it very much want how though on the other one. You what would characterize their personality?

- Everybody is not able to found sect. A personality like that is needed for him, in which can be found the power endeavour - including the material power in it -, the megalomania,
or the pathological obsession. This latter comes into existence in that manner generally, that the prospective guru's hallucination is typical of the schizophrenia. Then later this experience of his than exterior impression rehearses it to synthesize. The psychopathy and it reel between mental disorder somewhere.

- I did not hear about the offspring of a family living harmonically having turned his back on his previous life once already.

- This harmony was apparent simply then! The material background of a family directed vain, the honest attention is missing from the contacts if it is an emotion! It burns at this time if an acquaintance says it to a young person: come to talk to us onto a tea party! Goes away, and feels very well because they care about him, they are curious about his thoughts, onto his feelings, onto his opinion, does not deal with it, that his fresh acquaintances sect members. Yet two times, drops in at them treble, and if he lags behind after all then, back they go, it is looked up. And the can be twisted a young person finds himself between the sectarians again. The brainwashing may begin at this time. It is talked into it - drugs get it to it with his help possibly - let him rise up against the parental authority, let him break with his previous life, let him work with them. The essence it, that let it be weaned away from his old living space.

- What follows the brainwashing?

- The young person "marches" in into the sect. As if to the soldiery, into a hospital or would go to prison. His personal things are taken away. Receives "treasury" one of everything, with minimal living space. At what more pathological his driving personality, has to observe more extreme regulations at it. The sexual life is prohibited to him totally for example, may get into a genital contact with the group's leader simply possibly, but it may occur that he does not know from who he fell into a burden just after a "holy rite". Between circumstances like this from the sectarians after a time uniform janissary - robot of which use can be made for anything - divorces and in an extreme case they do not say no to the suicide yet if their leader desires it from them.

Ideal - Lifestyle magazine

June. 1998. Heading: Pensive