Cults: Dissociation, Group Psychology, and Cognitive Dissonance

""How does cult psychology work? How is it possible to persuade human adults to enter a weird cognitive landscapewith no basis in reality? To enter a fantasy realm so profound that they’ll willingly die for whomever has been selected as the local Messiah?"--Matthew J Sharps Ph.D, "Cults and Cognition: Programming the True Believer." Psychology Today. … Continue reading Cults: Dissociation, Group Psychology, and Cognitive Dissonance

Zuihitsu: 2020-06-16 to 2020-08-08

You can’t learn anything with your mouth open.Is it complex or merely complicated?Use the right tool and the tool will do the work.Always respect the task.It’s easy to make things difficult. It’s difficult to make things easy.Don’t put it down, put it away. Think fast and talk slow. Listen, analyze, evaluate, prepare a fallback strategy, then … Continue reading Zuihitsu: 2020-06-16 to 2020-08-08