Step One: Manufacture a perception of injustice.
It doesn’t matter if the injustice is real; only its perception counts. Humans hate unfairness by instinct. Create dissatisfaction by making your followers imagine that they have been treated unfairly.
Step Two: Create a scapegoat.
Craft the imagery of a common enemy, a focal point for collective hatred. Create a scapegoat to blame for inflicting the injustice on your followers. The salvation of your cult thus lies in the complete and utter destruction of the enemy.
Step Three: Be the savior.
Declare war on the enemy. Present yourself as the singular proprietor of the magic bullet needed to kill him. Your followers must believe that salvation lies solely through you, their messiah. Reduce complex problems into simplistic solutions–solutions that only you possess. Justify your actions by twisting the standards of common morality to suit your agenda.
Step Four: Deploy symbols and slogans.
Bombard your followers with a propaganda of powerful visuals and pithy sayings. Omnipresent logos and crests evoke a sense of collective pride, constructing an all-encompassing cult identity, overwriting their individuality. Repetitive slogans penetrate the psyche of your followers and saturate their minds, blunting their ability to reason and question you.
Step Five: Weaponize your rhetoric.
Render your followers submissive by stoking their emotions. The three most powerful emotions to provoke are fear, pride and hate. When people are fearful, prideful and hateful, they are the easiest to persuade, to control, to manipulate, to indoctrinate.
§ Image: Dante and Virgile (William Bouguereau, 1836), depicting a scene from Dante’s Divine Comedy, narrating his journey to Hell as guided by Virgil.
Thank you, sir! Now I understand how our brains actually work unconsciously. Humbly, Dino
These are magical words! “The three most powerful emotions to provoke are fear, pride and hate. When people are fearful, prideful and hateful, they are the easiest to persuade, to control, to manipulate, to indoctrinate”
Sounds good and I like it! I’m just starting learning, though.
After receiving an email earlier today and clicking a link that lead me to enter into this website to see how to build a cult in five steps, am aware of two things. First, using mind control is automatically and obviously the best option to unlock into the kingdom of mass control because as the process of indoctrination moves beyond rapport and compliance, the target is completely unaware that we are opening up their subconscious mind to plant new beliefs and identity. Second, since Cicero pointed out that if you want to move the mass , stir up their emotions, using storytelling as a weaponized rhetoric makes you to easily access the subconscious while people are happily looking at you and enjoying the stories completely unaware of the cult-like trance the storyline will induce into them. Before I joined Shogun many years ago, I lived painful life in the darkness. During those days, pain, loneliness and quiet desparation were the closest friends I zipped at the deepest end within my heart. On July 2021 on a hot afternoon just somewhere on this earth while looking for NLP for seduction online at the age of 20, I accidentally found Shogun Method. At first, I thought It was thick black immoral and controversial. But after purchasing and trying shared experiences and storytelling for a while, my mind begun to open and today as you look at this words, reading them line by line why deeply absorbed into this website, I invite you to notice that these days,I’m aware of true power of mind control. Beginning from that moment onwards, I have totally dedicated my life to study it as much as I can because at the end of the day, to get power using mind control you need three things. A strong frame, hard core mind control strategies, and willingness to ruthlessly apply them on real people.
Ok
Fear,pride, and hate
Curious about indoctrination process…
I got ARCI is indoctrination protocol
I’m curious how Akira mind would process each step of Indoctrination stage…
Is it hidden into dark lever mechanism…
Akira.
My two cents worth of opinion – if it is helpful to you:
The steps outlined paint a very clear-cut path to building a cult. In reality, creating a devoted following is a complex process influenced by many factors beyond these steps. There are differences between a success cult and a not so successful cult – there are examples in the world but for the sake of discussion, I think a degree of it depending on the context of that cult that people will setup.
The text overall suggests this approach will work for everyone. I think people will have varying degrees of susceptibility to manipulation, and different situations can foster different cult dynamics. Probably the kind of followers are equally important in this journey of setting up a cult.
Building a strong cult likely takes a significant amount of time and manipulation. The text implies a more rapid process. Probably that is where the protocol will do, if it is released.
Very productive and thought provocating. I wonder what if in chaotic societies where the polarizations is so multifaceted that the villains are multiple and fear are numerous and several faith shave hooked people here and there. How would this approach work in such place
Brilliant and condensed, as always.