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	Learn more about Cult in the online encyclopedia. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		The term cult has a technical meaning in the sociology of religions, referring to a religious group with novel beliefs and with a high degree of tension with the surrounding society.
		In their defense, groups labeled as cults often see themselves as persecuted by the anti-cult movement, which (they claim) consists of a number of groups working together to suppress their religious beliefs.
		The definition of the word "cult" applies to all religions; the usage of the word (since the 1960s) applies to a sub-set of religions and groups - those that engage in abusive or criminal behavior, and/or deny their members civil and human rights.
	www.onlineencyclopedia.org /c/cu/cult.html (1593 words)

	Cult
		Unlike legitimate religious movements, cults are characterized by high levels of dependency, exploitation, and compliance with demands of leadership that are unrelated to religion.
		Cults are groups that often exploit members psychologically and/or financially, typically by making members comply with leadership’s demands through certain types of psychological manipulation, popularly called mind control, and through the inculcation of deep-seated anxious dependency on the group and its leaders [1]
		The largest cults are well-financed and have active, ongoing public relations efforts.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/cu/Cult.html (1187 words)

	The Age of the Castrato Voice
		Castration has been administered for punishment or for cruel revenge of which the great Abelard is the best known example.
		The castration of children for the sole purpose of producing a special type of voice is a historic phenomenon of unusual interest.
		While some popes threatened castrators with excommunication, Clement III permitted the use of castrati "ad honorem Dei." Castrati were still singing in the Sistine Chapel in Rome until the end of the nineteenth century when Leo XIII officially condemned their employment.
	www.radix.net /~dalila/singers/castrato-age.html (2056 words)

	Traumatic_abuse
		In my definition, a cult is a group that is led by a person who claims, explicitly or implicitly, to have reached human perfection; or, in the case of a religious cult, who claims unity with the divine; and therefore claims to be exempt from social or moral limitations or restrictions.
		Cult leaders who require their followers to perform mind-numbing, trance-inducing practices may do so while fully believing that such practices are for the greatest possible good of the follower.
		Extending this formulation to cult leaders and followers, the cult leader can be understood as needing to disavow her dependency and expel her dread of psychic dissolution, which she succeeds in doing insofar as she is able to induce that dependency and fear in the follower.
	www.danielshawlcsw.com /traumatic_abuse.htm (8892 words)

	Castration (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		The term "castration" is sometimes also used to refer to the removal of the ovaries in the female, otherwise known as an oophorectomy or, in animals, spaying.
		Castration can also be used in modern conflicts, as the Janjaweed militiamen who are currently (2005) attacking citizens of the Darfur region of Sudan often castrate villagers as part of a campaign of terror.
		Castration is common in animal husbandry and animal fancy, where it is intended for favouring a given desired development of the animal or of its habits.
	castration.mindbit.com (1225 words)

	Cult: Definition and Links by Encyclopedian.com
		...Cult film Cult film A cult film is a film that attracts a small but devoted...response to a cult film is somewhat different to what was intended by the film-makers,...
		...Cult homicide Cult homicide A small minority of religious groups have been...Aum Supreme Truth cult is a well-publicized homicidal cult, some of its members having released...
		These groups often expend large amounts of energy and money engaging in public relations campaigns to rid themselves of the association with the term "cult." A number of these groups appear in the Encyclopedian list of purported cults.
	www.encyclopedian.com /cu/Cult.html (1356 words)

	Mikis Theodorakis, Anti - Semitism, and Castration Terror
		Castration was the punishment the Primal Father inflicted on his rebellious sons.
		The terror of death is a displacement of castration's anxiety.
		In our unconscious, castration and death are synonymous, as we can easily infer from “Death”, which is always represented as a skeleton holding a scythe.
	www.geocities.com /psychohistory2001/teodorakis.html (2760 words)

	Wikinfo \| Cult (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Definitions of the term "cult," and alternative language
		Persons who question or challenge what the cult offers are denied access or exiled.
		Images, some of which are used under the doctrine of Fair use or used with permission, may not be available.
	www.wikinfo.org /wiki.php?title=cult (1563 words)

	Penis removal
		The practice of castration (removal of the testicles) sometimes also involves the removal of all or part of the penis, generally with a tube inserted to keep the urethra open for urination.
		Castration has been used to create a class of servants or slaves (and especially harem-keepers) called eunuchs in many different places and eras.
		Castration is not so rare, and is performed as a last-ditch method of treatment of androgen sensitive prostate cancer [1] [2] [3].
	www.mrsci.com /Andrology/Penis_removal.php (1689 words)

	Circumcision now, Castration then
		It had been observed that castrated animals were usually more docile and easier to domesticate, and it was a logical step to the use of castrated and more managable slaves for unpleasant tasks.
		Better known is the widespread castration in the Muslim world, through the eunuchs of the harem, responsible for the chastity of the sultan's wives and guaranteeing his paternity of their children.
		Objections to castration were mainly visceral: that it destroyed virility, that it was "against nature", that it was blasphemous.
	www.circumstitions.com /Castrati.html (1537 words)

	Castration (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Modified castrations may be inflicted in the form of circumcision, subincision, and other genital wounds; also a variety of torments such as scarifying flesh, knocking out teeth, beatings, torture, and homosexual rape.
		Castration as a means of acquiring feminine powers was still evident among priesthoods of the Great Mother, along with other female-imitative devices such as transvestism.
		As Attis was castrated and poured out his lifeblood to fructify her, so his priests in imitation of his sacrifice cut off their genitals and gave them to the goddess’ image.
	www.mindspring.com /~karen.anne.taylor/castrate.html (2489 words)

	Orchiectomy :: Procedures : Gourt
		Castration (also referred as: gelding, neutering, orchiectomy, and orchidectomy) is any action, surgical, chemical, or otherwise, by which a biological male loses use of the testes.
		Castration was frequently used in certain cultures, such as in Europe, the Middle East, India, Africa and China, for religious or social reasons.
		Castrated men — eunuchs — were often admitted to special social classes and were used to guard harems.
	www.gourt.com /Health/Men's-Health/Procedures/Orchiectomy.html (426 words)

	HeavensGate Members 'Giggly' After Castration
		The cult members paid $1,000 on Oct. 10 for a policy that covered up to 50 members and would pay out $1 million per person for abduction, impregnation or death caused by aliens.
		I'll be honest, I thought it was a cult." And when she heard the news from Rancho Santa Fe, she said, there was a twinge of uncertainty about her son's well-being.
		She becomes teary-eyed as she describes her realization that in a former life she was a cult leader, which explains why at times her ego swells and why she tends to order people around.
	www.positiveatheism.org /writ/heavgate.htm (3143 words)

	Eunuch (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		The castration can be only of the testes or also include the penis known as a penectomy (often with a tube inserted to the urethra open called a urethral rerouting).
		The practice known as castratism remained popular until the 18th century and was known into the 19th century the last famous Italian castrato did die until early in the 20th century.
		The 18th-century Russian Skoptzy (скопцы;) sect was an example of a castration cult where its members regarded castration as way of renouncing the sins of the Several members of the 20th century Heaven's Gate cult were found to have been apparently voluntarily and for the same reasons.
	www.freeglossary.com /Eunuch (1151 words)

	Alcoholics Anonymous: Of Course It’s a Cult!
		AA is a cult which has spread into a bureaucracy, which I call a “cultocracy,” for the lack of a standard word to describe this anomaly.
		Cults are usually Godly fellowships interpreting the word of God in a unique fashion, always undermining critical thought and making their members progressively more submissive to the will of God.
		When the 39 cult members died of their own actions which were predicted by cult doctrine, they were not seen to be victims of a hypothetical disease, but to a large extent they were seen as victims of a dangerous cult.
	www.positiveatheism.org /rw/ofcourse.htm (5396 words)

	Mysteries
		Secret pagan religious cults that flourished during the Hellenistic period, involving adoration of various deities and rites of spiritual transformation and rebirth.
		In the mysteries of Isis and Osiris, the Egyptians observed a mystery play of succession, the death of a pharaoh and the succession of another, with a funeral ritual of mummification and burial in which the dead would be mystically joined in the underworld by Osiris.
		The Mithraic mysteries were a male cult of Persian origin centered on the slaying of a bull by Mithra, god of light and beneficence, which guaranteed the fruitfulness of the earth.
	www.occultopedia.com /m/mysteries.htm (1276 words)

	HEAVENS GATE: Rancho Santa Fe Suicides
		The cult's end, coinciding with the appearance of Comet Hale-Bopp, created a sensation in the United States in 1997.
		Cult members gave up their material possessions and the male members of the cult underwent castration.
		In the wake of the cult's suicide, some attributed the cult's ability to attract new members to the growth of the Internet.
	www.true-crimes.com /heavens_gate.html (565 words)

	A Transpersonal and Existentialist View of the Heavens Gate Cult
		The cult proports that certain humans or "vehicles" are tagged with a "deposit" containing a soul’s beginning.
		Through castration the cult members were able to clear their mind of desires, but what of the sense impressions, images and thoughts which have to be eliminated.
		The cult believes that as a dog becomes close to a human family it may eventually gain access to being human as a new vessel (human baby) is made available.
	www.sawka.com /spiritwatch/lemon.htm (2119 words)

	ABC News Nightline: The Heaven's Gate Cult \| Plot \| MTV Movies
		In the aftermath of the 1997 mass suicide committed by members of the Heaven's Gate cult, many questions were left unanswered.
		Cult leader Marshall Applewhite's sister is interviewed, and details are revealed about his life.
		Host Ted Koppel and his crew talk to scholars who specialize in the study of cults, as well as surviving members who provide insights and opinions on the reasons behind the deaths of the 39 people.
	www.mtv.com /movies/movie/197489/plot.jhtml (211 words)

	THE CASTRATI («SKOPTSY») SECT IN RUSSIA: HISTORY, TEACHING AND RELIGIOUS PRACTICE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Castration as elimination of the roots of lepost determines the overcoming of all weaknesses and sins caused by lepost.
		Castration “whitens” the body and soul, causing the castrated one to be inspired by the direct contemplation of God.
		Kobelev was castrated at the end of eighteenth century; in 1819 he was exiled to the Solovetsky monastery.
	etor.h1.ru /castrati.html (7529 words)

	CELIBACY GUARANTEED!
		There is only one way to be sure of permanently eliminating the sex drive and guarantee the purity of our priesthood, and that is to remove the source of the hormone which causes it and the aggressive instinct which is its cohort.
		The best known of the ancient cults which had eunuch priests was that of the Great Mother, Cybele, and her son, Attis.
		The cult of Cybele existed from the earliest times in the Greek and Roman world down to 393 A.D., when the emperor Theodosius I banned the worship of all cults.
	members.tripod.com /castration_next_step/id12.html (1765 words)

	attis and cybele
		The cult and her symbol, the small fl meteorite, were duly moved to Rome and established in 191 BC on the Palatine Hill in the heart of the city.
		During the ceremonies, initiated castrastred themselves in imitation of the castrated god, and presented their severed genitals to the Goddess along with those of the gelded bull sacrificed at the Taurobolium.
		Though the cult had been brought to Rome on the prophecies of the Sibylline oracles, even Romans were shocked by the festival and were forbidden to join in until the time of Claudius according to a late Byzantine source.
	paganizingfaithofyeshua.netfirms.com /no_4_attis_cybele.htm (5170 words)

	Cargo Cult (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Because he stands at the switches of telecommunications, the white man is what Freud calls a 'prosthesis god'; that is, he is a god, according to the Cargo Cult, to the extent that he is living dead.
		The first telecommunications prosthesis which the Cargo Cult put at the center of their blocked relation to the dead was the flag pole thorugh which, they believed, the white man received only to keep to himself messages from the dead who must slave for the white man's every wish.
		But castration and death, according to Freud, cannot be represented but only embodied - for example, by some dead person.
	www.hydra.umn.edu /twd/cargo.html (515 words)

	Article - The Practice of Self-Castration in Early Christianity, by Matt Kuefler
		But the other two types of eunuchs — those born that way and those castrated by men — seem intended to be understood literally, so it seems odd that the third type should be understood in a different way; already in the second century Origen of Alexandria pointed out this discrepancy.
		Prudentius implied a sharp contrast between the pagan sacrifice of castration and the Christian sacrifice of martyrdom in these words, but it is possible that others noted the similarities rather than the differences between the two.
		So strong was the image of castration in the early Christian tradition that, even after the practice of self-castration was eliminated — and I have found no evidence for it after the fifth century — the metaphor remained.
	www.clgs.org /5/5_4_2.html (4936 words)

	[CTRL] The Cult of Alcoholics Anonymous
		AA is not a cult because it meets certain objective criteria established by academics; it is a cult because it appears to be one.
		Even the Heaven's Gate cult, requiring uniforms and castration, failed to gain the support of the scientific community to support its bizarre concept of a rescuing UFO hidden in the tail of comet Hale-Bopp.
		Self-Absorption (primary focus is the cult itself) AA lore is replete with injunctions to devote one's life in every way to the cult itself.
	www.mail-archive.com /ctrl@listserv.aol.com/msg24820.html (6077 words)

	Heliogabalus
		Cultic acts such as temple prostitution, castration, and (perhaps) human sacrifice were part of the Semitic world to which the cult of Sol Invictus Elagabal belonged.
		Several scholars believe that the cult came to Rome through the agency of Heliogabalus and left the city as soon as he was killed.
		On the other hand, epigraphical evidence proves otherwise and there is something to be said for the idea that the cult was an answer to a crisis in the classical religions, a crisis that is also documented by the rise of charismatic teaching.
	www.livius.org /he-hg/heliogabalus/heliogabalus-religion2.html (1268 words)

	Five on trial for child ritual murders
		Five influential members of Brazilian society went on trial this week for the suspected torture, castration and murder of five children, aged eight to 13, in satanic rites over a decade ago.
		Two physicians who allegedly participated in the castrations, Cesio Brandao and Anisio de Souza, and the leader of the group, are to be tried separately.
		The cult believes that children born after 1981 are evil and must be expunged.
	www.religionnewsblog.com /4179/five-on-trial-for-child-ritual-murders (650 words)

	John Lauritsen & Ian Young, 'The AIDS Cult: Essays on the gay health crisis' Asklepios USA 1997, 224 pages, ISBN ...
		However, in the new book The AIDS Cult, John Lauritsen counters that it is the authorities who are preaching faulty (even fatal) science and pushing public opinion astray through manipulation of data, and convoluted leadership.
		The various writers in The AIDS Cult suggest that a certain necrophilic death wish, shame, guilt and self-hatred have led gay men and drug users to hypnotically sign up for their own glorious suicide ritual called AIDS.
		The first chapter of The AIDS Cult introduces a multi-part hypothesis that "AIDS" is a typical example of epidemic hysteria", powered by unconscious group fantasies of scapegoating gays with poison feelings.
	www.virusmyth.net /aids/books/jlbcultrev2.htm (2372 words)

	Eunuch - China-related Topics EU-EZ - China-Related Topics
		The castration can be only of the testes, or also include the penis, known as a penectomy (often with a tube inserted to keep the urethra open, called a urethral rerouteurethral rerouting).
		The 18th-century Russian Skoptzy (скопцы;) sect was an example of a castration cult, where its members regarded castration as a way of renouncing the sins of the flesh.
		Sima Qian Confucian astrologer and historian; castrated at the age of forty-six by Emperor Wu of the Western Han Dynasty, after he defended a renegade general against the charges of the Emperor.
	www.famouschinese.com /virtual/Eunuch (1084 words)

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