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October, 2005
Factnet News Opinion/Editorial 10/06/05
Dear
FACTNet Users, Subscribers or Friends of FACTNet,
It is not often that as a director of FACTNet I send out special notices
to all our users, subscribers or friends, but this is one of those
times. I, Lawrence Wollersheim also a former Scientology cult victim
myself, have recently come across valuable new information for anyone
recovering from a cult.
If I had I not let you know about this new information I would have been
not only remiss in my responsibility as a FACTNet Director, but also as
a human being who has personally suffered through the slow and difficult
cult healing process.
Reading and understanding this new information has helped me
significantly even though I thought I was already been pretty much
healed! So, I wholehearted make the following reading recommendations
for any former cult member who has already read some of the basic books
on cult mind control and manipulation:
1.) For individuals who have
been in religious cult: The first piece of new information is summarized
on our website as a multi-page overview of
Fowlers
5 Stages of Faith.
This overview along with the 5 Stages of Faith book are recovery must
reads because they show you the progression of a healthy, balanced and
maturing religious faith. Understanding this progression is not only
healing of itself, but it also helps you to resume your faith search in
a wiser way. This is because you will have a better image of the natural
development and maturing of spiritual faith when it is not twisted by
some cult or immature religious group.
2.) For individuals who have been in either a religious or non religious
cult: The second piece of new information is contained in a book called
Spiral Dynamics.
It is a management book that is based on 50 years of research by
Professor Claire Graves trying to answer the question “what makes people
change.” This can be a tough read as it written in business terminology
and it describes a steady, but complex path that all humans and
civilizations mature and develop along.
This book literally removed my lingering, disproportionate cynicism ---
a cynicism that I have had since I left the cult. It is the most
comprehensive summary of how humans psychologically mature and develop
that I have ever seen.
Seeing the detailed psychological maturity process described in this
book has helped me to go back and pick up some important missing normal
maturity and socialization pieces that my cult experience had retarded
or suppressed. It has also helped me to see the normal tasks and steps
of maturing as a human being so that I can see better where I am now as
well as the joys of what lies ahead of me --- if I just allow the
natural process of maturing to develop.
Happy Healing!
Sincerely,
Lawrence Wollersheim
FACTNet Director
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