MIND-CONTROL by ORTHODOX Religions
          
               For the first twenty years of my life I was a 
          Missouri Synod Lutheran.  For six years during grade 
          school, I had to attend church and Sunday school nearly 
          every week.  Every Saturday I was forced to WASTE a lot 
          of time memorizing Bible verses and quotations from 
          Martin Luther, for recitation during Sunday school.  
          Most of these memorizations were about Lutheran 
          DOCTRINE, rather than Christian living.  This is MIND-
          CONTROL. 

               For two years during 7th and 8th grades, I had to 
          spend Saturday mornings attending "Confirmation Class".  
          During each of those two years we had to go through a 
          long list of memorizations (MIND-CONTROL) for the class. 

               Several times during the second year we had to get 
          up in front of the congregation and recite quotations or 
          respond to questions fired at us by the preacher.  The 
          intensity of such experiences makes them a form of MIND-
          CONTROL.  So was the public "Confirmation" ceremony at 
          the end of the two years. 
          
               All of this was backed up by stated and implied 
          promises of Heaven and THREATS of ETERNAL TORTURE in 
          Hell.  They actually had me believing that a God of LOVE 
          would send people to BURN IN HELL FOREVER just for 
          failing to believe the teachings.  Such a SCARE-TACTIC 
          is the ULTIMATE form of MIND-CONTROL. 

               And I was sent to these MIND-CONTROL sessions by 
          people (my parents) on whom I was COMPLETELY DEPENDENT 
          for ALL of my living needs--food, clothing, shelter, 
          EVERYTHING. 

               The MIND-CONTROL tactics described above are really 
          NO less extreme than those allegedly used by the 
          "Moonies", and the result is THE SAME. 
          
               Fortunately, UN-like most people, I was able to DE-
          PROGRAM MYSELF.  The trigger came in mid-1968 when I 
          read the book "Edgar Cayce--The Sleeping Prophet" and 
          came to the chapter about REincarnation.  Since then, I 
          have been learning the TRUTH about many important 
          things--religious, political, historical, economic, even 
          "scientific", in spite of a continuous barrage of 
          BRAINWASHING official-LIES and HALF-truths from the 
          government, CONTROLLED news media and "education" 
          systems. 
          
               The reason there seems to be little interest so far 
          in Eckankar, Sant Mat, etc., is because most people have 
          been so thoroughly BRAINWASHED by orthodox teachings. 
          
               See also: http://members.aol.com/rem460/deadxmas.txt , 
          http://members.aol.com/rem460/badgods.txt , 
          http://members.aol.com/rem547/yahweh.htm , 
          http://members.aol.com/rem547/school.htm , and 
          http://members.aol.com/rem460/masters.txt ; or the same 
          file names at http://www.geocities.com/remspiral7/ .  


                                    Robert E. McElwaine
                                    Eckankar Initiate
                                    B.S., Physics and Astronomy, UW-EC
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