>  -cult-targets-ku-students-on-campus / high iq can make you more susceptible to cult indoctrination and incorrect beliefs. > according to clarks model, when you put pressure on the average human mind in a typical cult through the techniques that cults employ in terms of mind control, psychological coercion and radicalisation, the mind can take this pressure for so long and then something has to give. in his model, what gives is the personality and you adopt a new one. you cease to be you and become someone else. if clark is right we should see people going through a change of personality, and indeed we do. its usually the first thing that provokes families to call us. clark said that in order for that change to occur, the mind has to be flexible. a flexible mind is healthy mind. an inflexible mind is sick, which is why clark said the hardest to recruit are the mentally ill. we find that the kind of people that are being recruited into cults will include doctors, lawyers, you get the odd mp, school teachers, university lecturers, a lot of people in the business community. they are people who are intelligent, who have a good educational background and who are often described as upwardly mobile. they simply walk through the wrong door and it closes, psychologically, behind them.
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