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MANSON FAMILY COERCION A Study of Religious Rhetoric in Cult Structures and Social Groups By: Kati Sousa Adviser: Michael Jackson Overview The Leader Systematic Indoctrination of Beliefs The Recruits: Imperfect Pieces to the Perfect Puzzle

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A Study of Religious Rhetoric in Cult Structures and Social Groups

MANSON FAMILY COERCION

By: Kati Sousa Adviser: Michael Jackson

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Overview

The Leader Systematic Indoctrination of Beliefs The Recruits: Imperfect Pieces to the Perfect Puzzle Charlie as Christ Incarnate The White Album Assurance of the Apocalypse Distinguishing Cults from Social Groups

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The Leader

  • Childhood
  • Born November 12, 1934 Cincinnati, Ohio
  • Born to single 15 year old Kathleen

Maddox

  • History of drug abuse, theft, assault
  • Raised by religious Aunt and Uncle
  • Patterned Behaviors
  • Craved Center of Attention
  • Lies, deflection, self-preservation,

manipulation

  • Career Criminal
  • Age 6—caught persuading larger kids to

start fights on his behalf

  • Age 19—7 years, 6 different reform

schools

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The Manson Family Methods

  • Systematic indoctrination of beliefs

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1—Separation of individual ego

Absolute Devotion

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2—Comfort within the community 3—Unprogramming 4—Reprogramming 5—Mirroring Behaviors

Exploitation of Leader’s Needs for Power— Ultimate Control

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The Manson Family Methods

  • Imperfect Pieces to a Perfect Puzzle

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Capturing of “in-betweeners”

  • In-between high school or college
  • In-between marriages
  • In-between jobs

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Young Women as Disciples

  • Runaway Hippies
  • Father Issues
  • Self-esteem Issues
  • Addicts
  • Delinquents
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The Manson Family Methods

  • Leader as Christ Incarnate
  • Love and Agape at the core of his philosophy
  • Love for the individual and for all
  • Agape—the act of sacrificing self for the sake
  • f another
  • Surrounded himself with sinners, misfits, and

the unpopular

  • “he was a giver and a healer, so in our minds,

that was the closest thing to Jesus Christ we had ever heard of”—Catherine Share, former Manson Family member

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The Manson Family Methods

  • The White Album as Biblical Prophecy
  • Piggies

– Entitlement of the rich and powerful in need

  • f “a damn good whacking”
  • Blackbird

– The rise of the blacks from civil rights

  • ppression
  • Revolution 1 & Revolution 9

– Call to arms to change the way of the world

  • Helter Skelter

– Armageddon as a result of a race war

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The Manson Family Methods

  • The Assurance of the Apocalypse
  • Book of Revelation
  • 4 Horsemen

– Red—war and conflict – Black—famine and poverty – Gray—death and plague – White— The Antichrist

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The Manson Family Methods

  • The Antichrist

– Paradoxical manifestation of true evil—he is Satan’s

human emissary on Earth

– Come preaching peace – Lovable, handsome, well-spoken – “there before me was a white horse! Its rider held a

bow and he was given a crown, and he rode out as a conqueror bent on conquest” (Rev 6:2)

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Distinguishing Cults from Social Groups

Methods Cults Use:

  • Coercion
  • Intimidation
  • Threats
  • Physical and Verbal Abuse
  • Manipulation
  • Dishonesty (by leadership)

Disparity in Outcomes:

  • 100% retention rate of

fellowship

  • Members are left worse off

than where they started Differentiating Characteristics:

  • Worship leader/guru rather

than the principle

  • Systematic indoctrination

through self-criticism and confession

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Why Does It All Matter?

  • Religions, political parties, social groups, interest groups—all follow same

pattern of indoctrination with similar persuasion techniques

– The turn of the violent cult does not

happen until it is too late

– Are we at the mercy of master

rhetoricians?

– Manson is a sample of similar, yet

larger phenomena

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Why Does It All Matter?

– “Manson became a living metaphor of Abaddon, the God

  • f the Bottomless Pitt” (Williams, 2008)
  • Can such manipulative speech be forseen? helped?

stopped?

  • How might we protect ourselves and our loved
  • nes? Can we protect them?
  • At what point to we believe the end is near? How

do we know which side we are on when it does?

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Thank You

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