Critique of
Note
regarding “professional” exit
counselors
[My comments are in
green; LINKS
in purple.
Emphasis with bold is mine.]
If you are a professional
exit counselor who is working a case related to NCCG, you may wish to contact this site author for
additional information/documentation that does not appear on the public site.
Please note that due to the necessity of protecting the privacy of the individuals
involved in my investigation, I will need to be able to do the following: (1)
independently identify you as a professional exit counselor
with an established reputation, and
(2) verify that you are actually the person you represent yourself to be. I
will be forced to turn down requests from exit counselors
who, for whatever reason, cannot be verified this way.
[The word
professional baffled me. Are exit counsellors “professionals”? This is what the "profession" means, according to the New Collins Concise English Dictionary: "An occupation requiring specdial training in the liberal arts or sciences, esp. one of the three learned professions, law, theology, or medicine." Professional does not mean therefore someone with established reputation who is asked to do a job and earns money from it. The Gestapo, in that sense, could also be "professionals".
Now
as for nccg_concern, it looks like all he needs to
trust a person is an established reputation. Ted Patrick, for instance,
a person charged with sexual assaults and possession of drugs, is pretty
famous, so why not ask this guy to help your daughter out of a “cult”?
I
have a very negative opinion concerning exit counsellors – also known as
deprogrammers. I do not agree with their practices and I regard them as
violation of not only religious freedom but just about every freedom there is.
I believe that their “profession” is but the fruit of deranged and emotionally
deprived people who go after others to suck their blood in order for themselves
to get a life. More on that and an extensive analysis is to be found in the
relevant article of this webpage.
My
intention is to make a list of links, to which I will be adding, concerning
“exit counsellors” and “deprogrammers”.]
The
Religious Movements Page (of the University of Virginia):
http://religiousmovements.lib.virginia.edu/cultsect/anticounter.htm – An excellent and
unbiased overview of the anti-cult and counter-cult movements.
http://religiousmovements.lib.virginia.edu/cultsect/brainwashing.htm – Contains an overview and a
series of interesting links about brainwashing.
CultAware
Unzipped:
http://info_3.tripod.com/cultaware_unzipped/def.html
- A definition of the terms “exit counselling” and “deprogramming”.
Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deprogramming
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exit_counseling
Quoting from this link:
“Some critics see no difference between
deprogramming and exit counseling or claim that exit counseling is just another name for deprogramming used
after a number of legal problems with the latter, and that it includes at least
emotional or intellectual coercion.”
Reason
Online:
http://reason.com/opeds/walker042197.shtml
A critique about how
“professional” deprogrammers are.
Religious
Freedom Watch:
http://www.religiousfreedomwatch.org/false_exp/rossr1.html
and
http://www.religiousfreedomwatch.org/false_exp/RICK_ROSS_AND_THE_ROSS_INSTITUTE.PDF
Lengthy critique on Rick Ross and
MANY documents, including information from courtroom trials, letters, a CV and
a psychologist’s profile of Rick Ross’s character.
CESNUR (Centre
for Studies on new Religions):
http://www.cesnur.org/conferences/BrainWash.htm – Article on
brainwashing
http://www.cesnur.org/testi/gandow_eng.htm
– Article on brainwashing
http://www.cesnur.org/testi/anticult_terror.htm
– Article on anti-cult terrorism
http://www.cesnur.org/2001/london2001/barker.htm –
Cult-hunters separated in categories and studied separately.
About CESNUR,
see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CESNUR
The
Academic New CAN (Scientology-supported website):
http://www.cultawarenessnetwork.org/dbase/bios/rross.html
– Opinions and facts about Rick Ross and his practices and a lot of links.
http://www.cultawarenessnetwork.org/dbase/bios/ross2.html
– A case of SRA is considered as “ridiculous urban myths” by Rick Ross.
http://www.cultawarenessnetwork.org/violent-links.html
– Interesting chart of how the former CAN was organised.
About CAN read: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cult_Awareness_Network
Rick
Ross’s list of warning signs:
Websites opposing
Rick Ross:
http://www.rrexposed.u2k.biz/index.htm
http://www.apologeticsindex.org/130-rick-ross
This is a website
where distinction is made between truly professional experts and "experts"
without any qualifications. A lot of information in there.
http://www.cultfaq.org/cultfaq-counseling.html
See also: http://www.cultfaq.org/ where
that link came from.