Source: Empiria magazine

Deny the world and come between us

The corpses on the day beating down, in the steaming haze of the jungle, insects from a million covering, from marsh rats chewing unrecognizable they became deformed. The faces bloat, the character features blurred. The difference ceased man and woman, white and black, old man and between a young person. From among the 908 corpses 248 was impossible to identify. From among 210 children found enough room in 65 baby coffins. Anonymous, nobody not mourning they disappeared from the world, as if they would not have been due here. From among the identified dead ones nobody put in a claim for the residues of 300 countrymen, nobody undertook their funeral. California Oakland city permitted it for a mass grave to be opened finally is afraid with a year after their voluntary death pledge finally for them where he is 1979 on his spring they found calmness. The prophet Jim Jones corpse was burned, his blooms were dispersed above Pacific Ocean.

From United States into Guyana, Jonestownba the People’s Temple moved name sect with a total character left the guilty world here undertaking the voluntary mass death, taking his bizarre faith world with himself into the grave, his ritual customs, his fanaticism. Who 1978 the sect question was not bought sincere, between them the competent American government authorities and local politicians, they were compelled to face up to the problem in connection with the event. The tragedy shocked it and filled America with anxiety and he was made to shock. For a million ones which cannot be understood totally for him seemed, that the rapid development of the science and technology, the worldwide spreading of the mass communication and and the general education standard exists in the future despite his gradual elevation, indeed it grew, the total sectarianism blooms in countries with a Christian culture.

The People’s Temple his case naturally the most glaring example onto the degenerate fanaticism, brings up the question inevitable after all, a similar case may appear? For Jim Jones followers revolutionary testimony that is public creed their life had to be sacrificed. The majority undertook him voluntary. The mothers themselves made poison mixed into juice drink their children. Only few people rehearsed to resist - to escape in even less. You are a bullet with them hypodermic needle completed. The female nurses stirring the poison, the doctor's and the camp's armed defenders were not only the executors of their prophet's provision, but last ones themselves undertook the death.

The tragedy shocked masses and reflected. But themselves deducted an any kind of inference the sectarians, to who like that common wit and a sense penetrate away difficult? It was realize faithful their responsibility the messiahs, prophets, missionaries, gurus? Worried, parents struggling helpless, relatives, friends' army lived in hopes, Jonestown onto the effect of a tragedy the different religious communes come to an end, the eccentric congregations lose their magic and the magical jugglers lose their credit, spiritual terrorists. The hope revived, their family members taken for lost one are got back simply after all possibly.

The human mentality but more unfathomable and more complex, than we would believe it. The repeated exposure of abusing the human credulity and in Jonestown bygones there are naive souls in the future despite his wide-ranging publicity, who want to belong to the flock. Succession who take the sheperd crooks in their hand taking advantage of this will be always - and the gold crown is fitted onto their later head. (The sects since, just like the head religions, all gold mines: frontiers not knowing, billion business ventures which are free of tax payment.)

It is accompanied by the sect phenomenon throughout our written history, just like from the society's part aversions expressing himself for it, the different manifestations of harassments and pursuits. The sects develop because they are critical with the all-time social system and it (just) opposite a prevailing religion. Since one cannot be reformed or to disprove, a totally new world is offered instead. Jim Jones the opponent of the daily manifestations of the economic inequality and the racism founded his congregation in California, into which (and it is possible to wrinkle a forehead here) white faithful into a position driving beside it jews, between the subordinate followers though blacks, admitted latins and mulatto, - than advertised it, under the "true fraternity's" aegis.

The triumph of "-ism"-s

The sects, even the eastern mystic religions specific interpreting, even for the doctrines of the christian religion ringing change, ism-s differing even uniting, (idealism, socialism, puritanism, absolutism, asketism, pacifism) the advertisers of principles known effective. It is claimed without an exception, his sole owners for the true faith and superior somebody else compared to religious groupings. Naturally their prophet, their heavenly envoy, their guru, their verb advertiser the road leading to the truth only knowing. Beside this all millenists.

The millenism has millennial traditions. According to his fundamental idea the humanity's history ahead is getting complicated according to a written script and the cataclysm lasts, towards Christ's second coming which means his beginning to the rule of 1000 year countrymen. An of two kinds man exists simply according to the millenists: good and bad. The good ones win their reward and part they will be for Christ's new country while the bad ones start punishing them in the hell. That when expected the second coming, it sect variable.

The 19. century mormons at the beginning of, - just like the apostles and the early christians - the Messiah's return was waited for in their own life through generations, - the denomination of Latter Day Saints was dubbed because of this. Somebody else and somebody else indicated times since the Jehovah's Witnesses forming, experienced continual farther doing the dirty the world's end his coming, when he did not ensue repeatedly.

Ingerson Scofiels and faithful the dispenzionalists, onto the end of the 20. century it is prophesied it armageddon: Bill Graham, the most famous (and most colourless, most boring) American evangelist, made a statement in that manner in 1971 already: "All signs point it out, Jesus Christ direct it is at a standstill in a door." (What his huge blunder did not deduct from his authority on an interesting manner, that to mention public, one should not demand it naturally possibly.) Pat Robertson, the self-appointed prophet being in a constant connection with the celestial ones reported it on his television screen before with years be: "There is everything on his place, the big event may take place in any of the moments. With the onset of the autumn Ezekiel a prophet's prophecy is fulfilled."

Christ, Buddha, Marx and Lenin in a person

The millenists sects in one messianistic. Since he is the humanity himself is not able to regain a good road, a god sends guides for them, where in his son's person, (who is himself with divine ancestry), where prophets, gurus, martyrs, obsessed preachers, in holy envoys' person, for who the faithful ones one without a condition and with full devotion owe. What the devotion without the condition entails punctual how, it again only our sect variable. They - onto a monastic sample - denying their family and their previous life, giving up their name and their individuality, from the world totally locking away they are in service as a robot. Others secular ones are left over and taking two-three jobs the border of the complete exhaustion they work, but they renounce all of their ownership, - strengthening the community on a material line.

Are, who (into a parody decent) 14-16 clocks are begged for the despised and from ones with some other kind of faith sentenced to damnation, others prostitute new faithful ones and supporters try to be obtained for the congregation. Many people tropic they settle into strange countries you are something else even onto a continent. Of who it is demanded are willing to abadon their parental rights in the sect's interest: the community raises their children, on the basis of the prophet's management and his decisions.

The sects' majority demands sexual abstinence* of his believers, the mormons mutual polygamy**. Single leaders, than Jim Jones, sexual abstinence for the faithful ones, but sexual service sounding for his person and full sexual subordination from the leaders standing on the peak of the church hierarchy, - from women and from men equally.

The faith without the condition and confidence use up the measure of the full devotion in the prophet furthermore, in all of his words, in all of his decisions. From Jim Jones was well-known, that 40 aroused a sect member from his dead persons. Onto the effect of his magical glance the blind ones they were optic, the paralyzed ones started working though. Innumerable believers healed from the diagnosed cancerous state of fatal one - the proliferated cell masses a ritual ceremony extorted it from the patients in his framework.

When he is Jim Jones himself Christ, Buddha, Marx and Lenin preached it to his reincarnation, faithful not that they would have turned away excited from him from doubts, but nothing objectionableness was not found in him. From here was only a step already, that avow himself a god. What may not be apter in this direction referring Egon Larsen, a renowned author publicist's words: "The person who is able to believe one single absurdity believes all then."

It was typical of Jim Jones social acknowledged that the Most Distinguished American Fathers of the Church won it in 1975 honourific title, in 1977 though, with only a year before the tragedy of the mass murder, Martin Luther King Jr. Philanthropic Prize. If doubts sank beforehand faithful in his circle, these honours it was stifled apparently.

The prophet hope in the despair, guide in the chaos, safe clue the whirling depths, above the sin sea. Just because of this infallible and not has unearthly abilities in a last row. In single cases his pupils and faithful their spiritual leader is invested with extreme characteristics, which he takes on later,, - in this manner increasing the sowed confidence. Somebody else in cases a charismatic individuality himself invests himself with supernatural characteristics, obtaining followers and later unlimitted power in this manner. If he is the two-way process can be showed, nobody managed to collar the moment yet when the prophet manages to get onto that dot, he himself starts believing in his messianistic nature.

From Jim Jones initially faithful extraordinary stories were spread, later he himself created some. Claimed it when his paranoia overcame him likewise already, his enemies fired at it, but the bullet did not catch it, - remained intact. Evidence produced a bloody shirt, a bullet struck it with holes. Broadened the circle of his extraordinary characteristics, with which the burden of the demonstration growing steadily weighed down on him in parallel with, out the way waiting for the miracle around intensified. Vicious circle, from which increasingly more impossible to hop out. When the depressing consciousness of his divine nature overcame him, Jones despotism, his sadism, his sexual aberration intensified rapidly. Faithful but it was not tested to force from the throne.

All kinds of half-mad ones

The faithful ones may not allow the prophet to get off effective from the throne, because if would empty, they themselves could not sit on his stair long, - it would be necessary to give up their "prerogative status", which distinguishes it, and above the average man raises them. The sectarians (and for the believers of a number orthodox religion) according to his faith through the divine envoy his owners for the special spiritual power which makes them the heirs of the otherworld.

The sectarians exclude nobody despite their superiority consciousness. Anybody, who accepts their dogmata, may join them and submits himself to the regulations, - that is if a previous denies it énjét and his life. The reason of this, that is not for the sects worthless, that is for the community useless man. The you are physically mental limited can be stopped up, if onto something else not, onto begging. 14-16 were daily according to sect members' statement on the cities' streets winter and summer clock begging unfortunate ones gather up 25 thousand dollars in a yearly average.

Who the typical sect members? According to the public belief, naturally thoroughly simplifying, "all kinds of half-mad ones". According to specialists but with much rather from before the daily problems of the life fugitive, many times idealistic young persons, who may suffer from solitude,, from excessive competitive spirit, racial and from religious prejudices, from social differentiation, - that is the life (effective really measured) from his hopelessness. Is between them, in who vegetates the altruism and helpfulness, - their most capital dream, that let him be somebody's need onto them. Others insecurity in their sensation, organized in their aimlessness and they want to belong to a directed community.

At the same time the faith or the piety, than so much may be everything else addictive. "It addictive (are prone to excessive dependency relation, K. H.) individualities' feature an you are certain on all of them nothing, good you are a bad mentality. To believe in something hundred percent effective infantile state, which is distressful, neurosis and somebody else may bring about psychological disturbances onto the incision of the personal development." C. D. Davis writes it, the Driverse road, a travel title in his book. From the sectarian fanaticism or from the religious whim, indeed to get rid of religious frenzy just so heavy, than the alcohol, you are nicotine drug from a mania.

John Clark, according to an american psychologist the sect members' nearly 60 percentages with chronic emotional unbalance, individual struggling with spiritual crises. They the so-called earner-researcher types, who do everything, that let them be able to identify with a magical faith world, which fills their life. Their majority has an identity problem, as a result of which he is something else, they want to turn into person, and just this what the sects offer. Was renewed individuality, real aims, substantial lifestyle, an totally somebody else world. Despite the mounted severe bars to the sect (to order, to a kibbutz) truth accession uniform relief, liberation gives rise to a sensation, since the taking responsibility and the decision making bring his heavy burden to an end between many people for many people unbearable.

As opposed to the public belief percentile not tall the actual psychopaths' and schizophrenic number in the sects. The danger consists in it rather, the leading personalities may abuse their absolute power managing to get into a position. On a tragic manner, although he is not everything they fall just freely from irony their victim, from who their omnipotent assignment was received.

Tested method

The primary victims of the sectarianism themselves the sect members. Although who value their sect experiences positive are in much more it is claimed, that emotional, material and physically gutted they, they abused their defencelessness, with their good faith. From among the late faithful ones being torn out of the sects' tie they inundated the psychologists' surgeries and the press with terrifying reports: with stories, that physical and from spiritual violence, from starving, from forced labour, they reported on psychological terror. From among the cases several documented, - you are medical with papers just with a death certificate.

The sects' tested method - body and thought control, psychological manipulation (remorse hatching, from an external world truth isolation, breaking, personality distortion), into total dependency relation coercion, the combinative application of a public penance - leaves a lifelong trace at the ex sectarians' majority's place. The frequentest psychological distortion depression, diminished intellectual achievement, deconcentration, paranoia, sleep disturbances, impotence and general alienation set in. Yet in those cases, when the sect members threw themselves voluntary under it for the in body and soul terror developing their new individuality in his interest, long-distance negative effects came forward. Was sectarians returning into the everyday life mostly simply after a lengthy psychotherapy treatment turns into possible one.

The question comes up rightful, dangerous the sects the society with regard to whole one's? The sect members not only have to deny themselves, but their parents, their siblings, their potential spouse. The regular contact has to be broken with all of their relatives, with their friend, with their neighbour. Their most fundamental human emotions have to be destroyed. Serious spiritual injuries are caused for their direct environment on the row of this. Especially tragic the situation of those parents, who besides it being missed being worried became sectarian their children, themselves are accused for their loss in many cases, - the society makes them make a mistake moreover.

The primary school (superficial) according to a view the sect members the society needed his periphery, abnormal, maniac individuals, who are themselves, they go in front of their fate, and their destiny is deserved in this manner. Many people find it incredible that he is educated, from a normal so-called good family truth young persons fall prey to the missionaries' birdlime. According to the literature but this appears, indeed. Occurs much often, than we would think that they are young persons the denying everything is typical of them from one of his extremities certain circumstances fall over onto him being effective suddenly the everything into the other extremity of acceptance. At the same time according to newer researches genetic and biological factors have an important role feeling drawn towards the extremes, onto exaggerations truth regarding a tendency.

The sect members' great majority is a young person. Was being brought up in the dogmatic religions, are prone to the excess, lacking self-esteem being, are incapable of tolerance and increased individuals at who remorse is get into the sects' allurement easily. The young persons' inexperience plays into the tropics' hand in the universal religion story and in religion philosophy, (the prerogative and it believe the theories of a true road because of this) and the analytic-comparative mentality, or the deficiency of the abstraction skill, - the purchase of which the Bible is according to a word his consequence. Likewise influencing factor the deficiency of the self-knowledge and practical experience.

Dreamers and miracle waiting rooms

The sects' abuses' committed against the individual and a family's disruptive activity the society may be dangerous for whole one's watching. Their influence but from the all-time political-economic situation and somebody else from cultural effects pendant and where decreases in this manner, where gets stronger. Their number of members grew for the depression of the 30 years especially in USA and on the time of the disappointment following the exaggerations of the 60 years. My carcass was newer can be experienced on the end of the 80 years the reaction of the cumulative economic difficulties.

The consequence of the carry-over of the world economy problems and the democratisation processes (with the legalisation of the freedom of religion) the sectarianism was his growing spreading can be experienced on Soviet Union's and the Middle Eastern European countries' area. They appeared in 1982 already according to New York Times Hare Krishna shaven-headed, his missionaries with an orange gown in Soviet Union. The sect with a total character (own and according to the judgement of some specialists religion) from the world truth full turning away from his demand believers, the Satan admirer an external world's full refusal. His members (to religious houses, to monasteries, to kibbutzim similarly) they live in communes where all of their moments are particular, all of their actions checked and directed. Weekly 55 clocks are spent with the exclusion of the guilty thoughts: paryer, chant, meditation, liturgical ceremonies, public penitence, penance and newer chant: Hare Krishna, Hare Krishna, Hare Krishna! Hare Krishna, Hare Krishna, Hare Krishna!

The social rift of our age, his limited opportunities, his ethical doubts, his hipokrizm, his violent (negative) cultural trend effects, the family's disintegration, and from the traditional religions truth disappointment all of them sweep more young persons into the sects' tense nets. To be fish fished out more comfortable and plainer the conscious survey of the situation and the independent responsibility pledge. Child natural, how we believe in the tales, in the Santa Claus, in the celestial providence, in the miracles. The process of turning into the adult, that we have to give up our faith world meaning safety: we have to go over to the world of the reality. This is very difficult for much, you are impossible exactly. Spiritually very many people all the time dreamers and miracle waiting rooms we are left over. Knowledge is needed but to have bought, the world of the illusions just so ruthless and may be dangerous, than himself the reality.

Hanna Kuliffay

* The early christian sects' capital ideologist, Holy Paull wrote it the Khorinthusis: "Good, if the man is not in contact with a woman."

** The young person, 19. with a century american origin (in flat creeping religion getting promoted) mormon sect the polygyny practising faithful. The Mormons the original hebrew doctrines' and the biblical patriarchs' followers declare: "The polygyny to the God the essential experiental condition of becoming similar one, what (according to old-hebrew documents) more were a God's wife." (quotation Anne Wilde, in Salt Lake City [and in polygamy] from a living author.)