The three parts of the cycle you mentioned are processes of Mind Control. That's how I see it. Please pardon me for the labeling it as such. It is like trying to extract guilt along the way in every process of the cycle, that the mind ultimately gives in to a suggested idea or faith believing it as the truth. Once that purpose is achieve, everything in that man collapses by itself.
-- Bert S. Habaradas
The 3 parts of the cycle I mentioned are NOT processes of mind control. These are the PROCESSES OF GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT of a person. Mind Control does the opposite: it harms and obstructs the growth and development of the person.
WHAT IS MIND CONTROL?
From the Wikipedia Encyclopedia: "The term mind control (also known as "brainwashing", "coercive persuasion", "thought control", or "systematic manipulation of psychological and social influence") refers to a process in which a group or individual systematically uses unethically manipulative methods to persuade others to conform to the wishes of the manipulator(s), often to the detriment of the person being manipulated". Various psychological tactics are used to subvert individuals' sense of control over their own thinking, behavior, emotions, or decision making."
The cycle of "LEARN, UNLEARN, LEARN AGAIN" is the only way to really dig deep the truth, find it, and truly understand it. For example, there was a time that people of the whole world learned and believed that the earth is flat. And then comes the truth that the earth is round like a sphere. If the people then would not UNLEARN their previous knowledge and belief, and not LEARN the new revelation, how would you label them?
If one will apply my "LEARN, UNLEARN, then LEARN AGAIN" approached, he/she will question his/her beliefs, whether it is true or not. This is in the word "UNLEARN" for those ideas and doctrines that may be proven wrong by new revelations. Applying this cycle means that one should have an OPEN MIND.
And this "LEARN, UNLEARN, LEARN AGAIN" principle of growth is very much biblical, as there are several scriptures that teach the same thing.
- But when the perfect comes, the partial will come to an end. (1Cor 13:10 HCSB)
- When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put aside childish things. (1Cor 13:11 HCSB)
- As obedient children, do not be conformed to the desires of your former ignorance (1Pe 1:14)
The suicidal groups you mentioned demonstrated that their members were deceived because they closed their minds. So, this means that those followers did not apply the method I mentioned.
If the people in this example would NOT UNLEARN, this means that they closed their minds to the new revelation; this means that their mind is now controlled, by the falsehood that they now blindly believed. This is what mind control means.
Mind Control means that a person is NOT allowed, or prevented from thinking of his own. The keyword in the cycle is "UNLEARN," which means that the person is given the freedom and power to exercise his/her own FREEWILL, to escape from the deception and mind control.
The benefit of the "UNLEARN" part of the cycle is that, when a person is previously deceived, for example, or when the old ideas harbored have become obsolete, that person can "UNLEARN" those deceitful or outdated ideas and beliefs, and replace them with new ideas that will foster growth.
Mind Control steals the FREEWILL -- the person's freedom to think and decide of his/her own volition.
I hope that I clarified the subject matter on hand.
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