1 result for (book:nome AND session:846 AND stemmed:pictur)

NoME Part Three: Chapter 6: Session 846, April 4, 1979 1/33 (3%) Jonestown cult fallout reactor Island
– The Individual and the Nature of Mass Events
– © 2012 Laurel Davies-Butts
– Part Three: People Who Are Frightened of Themselves
– Chapter 6: Controlled Environments, and Positive and Negative Mass Behavior. Religious and Scientific Cults, and Private Paranoias
– Session 846, April 4, 1979 9:30 P.M. Wednesday

[... 18 paragraphs ...]

Most cults have their own specialized language of one kind of another — particular phrases used repetitiously — and this special language further serves to divorce the devotees from the rest of the world. This practice was also followed by those at Jonestown. Loyalty to friends and family was discouraged, and so those in Jonestown had left strong bonds of intimacy behind. They felt threatened by the world, which was painted by their beliefs so that it presented a picture of unmitigated evil and corruption. (Pause.) All of this should be fairly well recognized by now. The situation led to the deaths of hundreds.

[... 13 paragraphs ...]

Similar sessions

NoME Part Three: Chapter 6: Session 845, April 2, 1979 nuclear Mile Jonestown Island scientists
NoME Part Three: Chapter 7: Session 848, April 11, 1979 tornadoes nuclear reactor exterior Island
TPS5 Notes for Session 844 (Deleted) April 1, 1979 Island Mile meltdown radioactive Jonestown
NoME Part Three: Chapter 6: Session 835, February 7, 1979 whooosh victims Americans leader Jonestown