blackmail, manipulation through the siege syndrome, for which outside the sect are all the enemies constituted by negative energies, and, moreover, the impossibility of criticism and the imposition of total obedience, the estrangement from family members, the complete depersonalization in the individual under various aspects, including for example the assignment of a new name within the community, the deprivation of any kind of decision-making capacity, the need to ask the guru what to do. Notes References External links 1975 establishments in Italy Ecovillages Micronations New Age communities New religious movements Religious organizations established in 1975 Subterranea (geography) Utopian movements