Di Massimo Lugli, police Modern No 1-2, February 1998.
Welcome to the Apocalypse. Ancestral nightmares evoked by fear of the millennium, science fiction terror from the Middle Ages near future, environmentalism and delirious remake of ancient Eastern philosophies shaker with a little 'psychology of petty and cheap esotericism, magic, neo-paganism and Satanism.
In the world of sects or new religions have everything and holy men, gurus, masters, or "avatars" that keep popping up like mushrooms in every corner of the globe show a supreme contempt for both the Penal Code for the common sense of the ridiculous. And sometimes, the most dangerous to human life.
But be careful, they warn sociologists, experts on new religions and even some theologians, do not lump everything. Characters like "The Messiah" Sea Davy Christ (formerly the Russian Communist militant with about 150,000 faithful who prophesied the end of the world for 14 November '93) or the dreaded Reverend Moon, leader of a true financial empire that professes a belief in total enslavement of the disciples, they have absolutely nothing to do with the small, but vital movements often derived from the great monotheistic religions or "heresy" came from the Far East as the "Sufi" (a kind of Islamic mysticism which, among other things, is also sympathetic to the singer-songwriter Franco Battiato), the "Bahá'í" (a kind of syncretism panreligioso which was cruelly persecuted in Iran and has paid a heavy toll intolerance) or many neoprotestanti minority churches like the Mormons, Pentecostals, Baptists and the Waldensians (true church founded by the writings of Peter Waldo, even before the Reformation).
A cult, according to the definition of Gris (Catholic Group for Research and Information on cults) and the writings of experts like Professor Introvigne and sociologist Cecilia Gatto Trocchi, is a closed world where it is introduced by methods often limit the law and from which (unlike of any religion worthy of the name) is difficult to get out.
The word comes from the Latin "sequor" and its enhanced "sector" in the direction to follow, to accompany a master. Originally, the "sectae" were the schools of the Stoics, the Epicureans, and even the early jurists. Even Aristotle was a great nationalist leader of a "sect" and the first lessons taught to students were defined as esoteric (inner) while in the afternoon, everyone, were "exoteric" (external).
Over the centuries, as often happens, the deadline is passed to indicate something diametrically opposite. A universe that blocks Armoured and inhibits the relations of the aspirant with the outside world, trying to push the neophyte to a clean break with family, friends or work and frequently use a series of very sophisticated techniques to sap the will and weaken the critical spirit of the faithful.
What? The best known are the "love bomb" (Love Bomb), a real overdose of affection that surrounds the new "recruits" as a molasses and prevents it from implementing the most basic psychological defense mechanisms. And again, the obsessive repetition of a mantra, sleep deprivation, insufficient nutrition, retention of urine, some methods of "purification" highly debilitating as saunas and prolonged fasting up to real methods of self-hypnosis.
In some cases you get to brainwashing techniques well known in dictatorial countries, and the conditioning is so strong that the United States has seen a new professional figure: the "decondition". They are mostly men of action prepared (at the request of desperate families) to sequester literally a follower, keep it locked up for at least fifteen days to submit to a kind of forced mental detoxification.
In Italy, of course, this action can not be seen immediately that would constitute the crime of kidnapping but we must recognize that the law, in relation to "guru" of a few scruples, is a blunt species after the abolition of the Penal Code plagiarism.
Sects certainly can not be reduced to a mere custom or revocation of official religions: the massacres in the metropolitan Japanese guru Shoko Asahara ordered by the "Supreme Truth", the recent mass suicide of the 'Order of Temple of the Sun "(sixty-six charred corpses discovered in two phases, October 5 and December 23, including that of" guru "Juret Luc) and 80 died in the fire in Wako Texas, in 1993 (to cite only those cases most dramatic and recent), demonstrate the urgent need for a universal and effective course of action and perhaps, should also help international investigative bodies.
How many followers in cults? The estimates are all indicative and highly fluctuating. Scholars now speak of some 15 million members worldwide, supported by at least 30 million supporters. In Italy the most recent assessments indicate, very roughly, about 700 groups with an assessment of the number of believers ranging from 600 thousand to one million.
One of the most interesting classifications (albeit within the boundaries of continuous and often uncertain contamination) is to Cecilia Gatto Trocchi, which distinguishes between seven eastern origin (Soka Gakkai, Hare Krishna, Rajneesh, Sai Baba, Yogananda, Mahikari etc. ...), seven Islamic (Sufi, faithful to the truth, esotericism Kurdish minority in extremely Italy), seven of Christian origin (Jehovah's Witnesses, Mormons, Seventh Day Adventists, Child of God, the Unification Church of Reverend Moon, etc. ...), psycho-seven (Primal Maha Yoga Sudha, Silva Mind Control, Discovery Life Principles, Evo Cris, Scientology), the nebulous world of esotericism, magic and occultism (New Age, Raelians, "Nonsiamosoli, Theosophical Society, etc ...), and as such the satanism .
This fraternity, particularly disturbing in the town of San Francesco and the holy city, to count something like forty thousand worshipers of the evil scattered throughout Italy. The most consistent, traditionally, is Turin, a city that, according to the esoteric geography, would, like Lyon and Prague, on the lines of force of evil that unleash the dark forces of Satanism.
most reliable explanation of Professor Michele Del Re, seven great scholar and "New religions". "The colony of Turin Calabria is very wide and deep, and transferred most of its traditions in the North. Among these was the custom in rural communities where the priest lived without too many problems with the Witch of the country, never without the power to one interferes with the other. " King cites the example of the witch Amantea, a woman in her own way, fascinating was sentenced was found in his house because a man died from torture during a ritual. "The headquarters of the sect's followers but was in Calabria to Turin were all adopted."
import Satanism, in fact. What is certain is that even the shadow of St. Peter's all a flurry of black masses, sacrifices to Lucifer, in midnight rites in cemeteries. In addition to the esoteric triangle of St. John, the followers of Beelzebub, it seems, prefer the area of \u200b\u200bthe castle, once the headquarters of the cult of the god Mithra and now a homemade Satanism but no less disturbing.
"I believe in Lucifer, our lord, but my congregation has never done wrong in his name" ensures Efrem Del Gatto, leader of the black church Luciferian who has 3,000 followers "do not sacrifice animals, drink red wine instead of blood and violence is reduced to 41 lashes rituals, mostly symbolic, to newcomers who become monks and those who return from a period of absence. For the new people asked spotless criminal record and the HIV test, but we accept also HIV positive. "
In the capital there are also other smaller groups of Satanists as the "Chosen of Satan", the "Sons of Maat" and a mysterious group called "Black Orgasm" which would be devoted to pedophilia-sex marriage and a gruesome death.
who, afflicted by the evil of living or working on a spiritual quest that is not answered in the Church or in another of the great religions, enter into a cult, he begins, often a long journey that will lead almost inevitably to knock on other doors to new adventures of the soul groped.
According to research by Massimo Introvigne some groups (the Unification Church, Scientology, Transcendental Meditation, Hare Krishna) have a very high and difficult to turn over their followers are more than 5 years. Others, involving social networks and recruit whole families, ensure a longer stay (Mormons, Jehovah's Witnesses, Pentecostals, and Soka Gakkai Damanhur). A third band, most disturbing, makes it almost impossible defections often intimidating methods or strong pressure on the faithful. In the latter category identity belong to the so-called churches, congregations and confraternities satanists who are dedicated to the occult and sexual magic.
Here is the story of a woman who has gone through many stages of a troubled journey in search of the spirit and that it was entrusted to her recently, a Turin daily. A shocking story, emblematic:
"I was Catholic, but full of doubts. A friend of mine was possessed by the Devil and exorcised by Archbishop Milingo. I was looking for an explanation of the evil one but my pastor was always vague and evasive. Some friends of the Reverend Moon followers me convinced them to join the Unification Church. I stayed there three years, but often forgotten the ritual and could not get to 5 am, Sunday, to kneel in front of pictures of Moon. Luckily I was already married and did not have to submit to the mass wedding. "
" One day the unthinkable happened, "she continues," there was a medium who had initiated the Moon to my friends and told them to leave suddenly . The new Messiah, he explained, is Baba Ji. I met him: he declared himself the last of the Masters, and said it was time to march because the Kalyug, the age of darkness, was at the gates. Relatives criticize you? Get away from them, we advised. And I obeyed: I dressed only in white, abolish meat from my diet, meditated, poured money for the movement. Someone saw the Master in the restaurant, in front of a juicy steak, but he was unimpressed: to proselytize, he explained, must adapt to the uses of those not yet enlightened. "
" One day Baba Ji opened a publishing house and founded the Party of the United States in the world. Then he said to the faithful: you sell your home, buy yourself the trailer and get ready to begin a journey. The Kalyug is near and I'll tell you where you're going to save them before an earthquake that destroys the earth. My husband, at this point, managed to drag me out of the sect. I spent a year of black despair, then I met George Bito, who wrote 'Angels in Spaceship' and claims to have had a message for humanity by extraterrestrial angels. It was very kind and understanding but could not convince me at all. When I was a question answered simply: we'll get along the way. "
" One evening, "says the woman" I was invited to a meeting of the Renewal of the Holy Spirit (a group recognized by the Catholic Church, ed.) It was truly a revelation. Now I returned to Catholicism, with a strong sense of ecumenism. Who tells me that my answer is fanatical group that does not know what fanaticism. I do and I am healed, I realized the difference between fanatics and believers. "
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