2010 MIVILUDES REPORT

[Niall]

Continued...

Thanks Galahad!

The Situation in Australia and Japan

Even when translated into English, French can be so convoluted!

There does not exist in Australia an official organism of surveillance over the sectarian-type movements, from which comes the difficulty of collecting information on their activities and the management of infractions linked to their practice with the ordinary means of justice and the police, in the context of the relative indifference of opinion and of political leaders regarding that which is not considered a priori as a global and dangerous phenomenon.

In plainer terms, the Japanese and Australian authorities don't see 'cultic deviances' under every bed.

In effect, the sectarian phenomenon doesn’t hold the attention of the public, the public power and the media outside of cases that are serious, sporadic, or spectacular.

In effect, they are not as advanced as we are; look how we rule the public in France through fear!

This state of mind finds its roots in a collective mentality that privileges freedom and individual responsibility, a society where the most varied and unexpected cults cohabit, re-form, in a certain indifference and where the intervention of the public in the private sphere - including among associations - is disapproved of.

How backwards and quaint! Countries which retain some freedoms and individual responsibility!

[You can almost hear them saying under their breath, “Not like in France!”]

Contentions linked to the practice of groups of a sectarian character are treated according to their nature, either as a civil suit or under the angle of threats to persons or the public order in extreme cases. It is very exceptional that the qualifying phrase “sectarian offshoots” (dérives sectaire) is used for the case of an association with delinquent practices.

This arcane language they use is just dripping with contempt.

[ In other words, Australian law does quite well in handling any actual activity that contravenes the civil or legal code. Which is another way of saying that none of the surveillance proposed by Miviludes is actually necessary. It reminds me of the recent SOPA protests in the US where it was clear that the laws and regulations already in place can deal with the supposed problems of internet “piracy”, and yet the pathocrats want more and more power and control anyway.]

Agreed, it is totally unnecessary from the point of view of protecting public safety. But from the point of view of controlling a population through subtle (and not so subtle) terror tactics, MIVILUDES is a psychopatho-logical masterstroke.

This situation brought an independent Senator, Nick Xenophon, to propose the creation, under the form of an “observatory”, of an official organism to follow movements of sectarian risk. The proposition for a law presented in this sense by the Senator has not been followed up at this time. Mr. Xenophon had obtained from the Economic Commission of the Senate the adoption of recommendations for better control of charity associations which called upon the generosity of the public and had the right to fiscal advantages, with the objective of creating a public “observatory”.

[Wonder if the good Senator Xenophon has read Jeremy Bentham. Sounds like his “observatory” is modeled after the Panopticon.]

Xenophon, xenophobe, xenophobia... "an unreasonable fear of foreigners or strangers or of that which is foreign or strange."

This angle chosen to treat the subject of sectarian offshoots confronts a powerful culture of associations, independent spirit, and support from a considerable number of charitable structures (60,000) according to Senator Nick Xenophon). This might explain the parliamentarians lack of urgency in adding the subject to the Agenda of the Senate before the last elections.

[Damn that independent spirit and all those charities!]

Damn the social cohesiveness of that other species which thwarts us at every turn!

The current political situation does not auger well for this proposal for the law. In fact, the Government, a minority, is worried about lasting and is therefore avoiding debates felt to be not immediately necessary.

The Senator Xenophon distinguishes himself, among his colleagues, by the passioned interest he shows in this subject.

MIVILUDES' note to self: the good Senator is one of us.

It is undeniable that Australia sees activity of groups of a sectarian risk, but no number (even approximate) is available.

What kind of a statement is that?! How can something be "undeniable" without even the slightest whiff of factual evidence to support it??

The only well-known and current affair that inscribes itself in the Millennarist movement appeared last year in southern Australia: It was a movement of sectarian character calling itself Agape Ministries, bestowed with a leader, Leo Rock (“Brother Rock”). Only newspaper articles, few in number, are available on this subject. This affair is actually inscribed by the prosecutors and the federal police under the angle of an “association of evil-doers”, aggravated by the possession of illegal arms.

In fact, in Australia, the movement of a sectarian character only holds the public’s attention in the case of sensational affairs. The idea of a public policy in the face of this phenomenon has a lot of trouble to progress.

Maybe someEVILdudes should see what their friends in the Direction Centrale du Renseignement Intérieur and the CIA can do to help the Aussies with that little problem they seem to be having... perhaps arrange a little Vercors or Jonestown in the desert, then sensationialise the heck out of the event and send Senator Xenophobe to the scene of the 'mass-suicide' where he'll complain to the waiting press that he's been saying for years that the country needs a Thought Police unit Anti-Sectarian watchdog.

 

[henry]

The End of the World in 2012: The Situation in France and Paths of Reflection for Preventative Action by Public Powers


That which goes for the world situation goes equally for France: it is therefore important to specify again that all the groups and movements developing an apocalyptic, Millennarist, or messianic discourse do not systematically expose their members to a fatal end or do not obligatorily constitute trouble for public order susceptible of putting into danger the values of our society. It is difficult moreover to foresee these matters.

This French panorama is therefore neither exhaustive nor stigmatizing. [“Stigmatizing”? What, the real reason for giving us the world tour of terrifying cults is to show that France is not alone and shouldn’t be embarrassed at having its own cults? French honour is yet again saved!] It has as its goal, responding to the task of information and vigilance of the Interministerial Mission, portraying as faithfully as possible the state of the situation and, in function of the elements brought to its awareness, of the groups and individuals whose doctrine or purpose, of a religious or New Agist inspiration, register themselves in a perspective of the end of the world, without the year 2012 or the date of December 21, being specifically cited.

In the light of past experience86, it is necessary to ensure there is a particular vigilance regarding these discourses, even in the case where no passing to the act seems perceptible. [Because we have established above that these lunatics can pass on a dime from being harmless to being a threat!] That is in fact the great difficulty of this mission of preventing risks: how do we avoid acts that are dangerous for people even without any alerting signals? How do we pick out the precursor signs, if they exist? What are the definitive indices of a perception of risk?

Finally, in the face of this conclusion and this task of vigilance, what are the consequences for public powers which have the role of assuring in any circumstance the protection of its citizens? Conforming to its mission, Miviludes proposes some paths of reflection to ameliorate the raising of awareness, without a doubt still insufficient today, but also of the efficiency of preventive action of the public powers in this domain.

The French Panorama

This presentation in striving to mention, according to the information which Miviludes disposes at the date of its writing, the groups and personalities of apocalyptic or millenniarist discourse present on the national terrain, who have manifested on the occasion of the perspective of 2012, without polarizing specifically on this date.

We thus assist at the coexistence of two great categories vis-a-vis which the vigilance of public powers, if they can take different forms, should be exercised with the same care as the protection of persons:

large structured movements, often of an international scale with French representation, which have a doctrine inspired by an apocalyptic discourse with a religious or New Agist foundation and of which the existence or activity are already known to the public powers which ensure a permanent surveillance;

groups of a smaller size, of a more recent creation, much less structured, often grouped around a single individual, inspired, by a real belief or by a well understood interest, by the end of the world discourse, of which the diffused character on the whole of the territory and their as of yet insufficiently understood activity necessitates a heightened surveillance by the public powers in order to better identify them and to better prevent their risky actions.

[Surveillance, surveillance, surveillance. The raison d’être of the report is to establish the need for the French security forces to spy on any group which have ideas which don’t fit into the mainstream.]

Already Known Large Movements

Brahma Kumaris

Founded in 1937 at Karachi (Pakistan), this movement claims to promote peace in the world by ameliorating man through his spiritual elevation (the flowering of his inherent and natural qualities) and the apprenticeship of an active spirituality: “the transformation of the world comes from a transformation of self”. We find here certain ideas that come also from the New Age.

In the world, this movement groups together 200,000 members spread out in about 1600 centres implanted in about sixty countries.

In France, the International Spiritual University of Brahma Kumaris, called the Raja Yoga Centres BKWSU, is located in Paris and has fourteen outside of Paris and in Guadeloupe with about 300 total adherents.

For the adepts of Barhma Kumaris, the Apocalypse is imminent. If they do not speak of Armageddon but rather of “Kali Yuga”, the age of darkness, they do not appear to doubt it, but on the contrary consider it is the prelude to a new golden age and the coming of a world of peace87.

To these apocalyptic theses are added most of the elements of the New Age theme, such as astrology, a “spiritualized” ecology, the promotion of non-violence, personal development, “energy-consciousness”, alternative healing therapies...

“In this group, guilt is used to ensure the respect of the rules of the community. The Brahma Kumaris speak of the apocalypse and some of them have already put away reserves. Others think we must see it in a symbolic way: a black age and then a spiritual revolution. For example for the offshoots, according to the beliefs of the Brahma Kumaris, it is very negative to have children since the end of the world is near.”88

The Ramtha Group

This movement was created by Judy Zebra Knight in the United States at the end of the 1970s. Ramtha’s School of Enlightenment, a structure issued from this movement, also known as the Original School of Ancient Wisdom, was founded in 1988 by the same person.

This person claims to have “conversations” with Ramtha, a Lemurian warrior who freed his people from the tyranny of Atlantis 35,000 years ago. This divinity would have discovered the secrets of immortality and attained awakening through his questioning and observations of the world and of the meaning of life.

Since a “first apparition” in her home, J.Z. Knight, while in a trance, transmits the thought and wisdom of Ramtha to her adepts and her students through a system of schools she created which offer retreats and international workshops throughout the world.

Ramtha would have chosen J.Z. Knight to “channel” him, by serving of her body to teach his message in person. The “channeling” consists of mediumistic trances implying a communication of spiritual entities taking shape in a carnal envelope.

This school of “illumination” does not claim to be a religion but rather a philosophy mixing scientific truths and esoteric beliefs.

Since 1999, she has organized at least 50 retreats for 7000 new students in 10 different countries. She has 6000 regular students across the world.

In France, Ramtha’s School of Enlightenment has spread its teachings since 2008. It appears that the departments of Pyrénées-Orientales (66), Aude (11), and in a general, the south-west of France were chosen to develop the teachings and to make perennial the activity of this organization on French territory.

According to certain information, before each seminar, the adepts are put into a psychological condition such that, after several hours, they are “receptive” to the theories of J.Z. Knight: staccato and repetitive music, projection of a series of ultra-rapid images....

The registration for the “retreats” and other forms of “teaching” is done through a written engagement, cosigned by the two parties, in which it is stipulated that “Ramtha uses interactive methods which carry with them a risk of injury for the participants.” This same document specifies that “the participants personally assume the risk of injury which can occur during the ‘Champ’ and the ‘Tank’ and any other activity...” in which they may participate at the “school”. The affirmations contained in the document of engagement (the conditions of participation) also mentions that “accidents can occur due to your negligence or even that of the people who lead the disciplines.”89

Training courses are also proposed for minors. A prospectus in January 2010 pointed to the opening of training courses in France for minors from six to nineteen years old, with the possibility of a preferential tariff.

Above all, the movement makes reference to the idea of the end of the world and the coming of a new era. It incites its members to better prepare themselves through building a reserve of food and by undertaking the construction of underground galleries and bunkers... the recent implantation of several members of this group on particularly isolated sites in the Pyrénées-Orientales is also the object of a protracted attention on the part of the public powers.

Remember that a French couple living in South Africa, presumed members of this movement, were recently the object of a veritable manhunt on the part of the authorities, after having killed a police officer who had gone to the farm they worked for a problem of non-payment of the rent. They were finally killed by police after six days of flight. In spite of a denial by the Ramtha movement that they were members, testimony taken on the spot tended to establish that they were in fact adepts of Ramtha’s School of Enlightenment. Notably, according to the owner of the farm, the couple liked to talk about “astral projection” and had assembled an important quantity of arms in their domicile; they lived in retreat from the world and had their provisions delivered in order to avoid going into the city.

Even if a link could not be clearly established between the doctrine of the group and the attitude of this French couple, especially after the official denial of the RSE, this drama shows nevertheless the extremes to which an apocalyptic discourse can lead.

Kryéon

Lee Caroll and his partner Jan Tober present themselves as the intermediaries of an entity known as Kryéon. His message consists of indicating to man that another mode of life is possible, happier, and more “spiritual”. The Age of Pisces will be followed by the Age of Aquarius. This theme is typical of New Agist groups, presenting in this way a version of the Apocalypse less pessimistic than other movements. Thus, Kryéon announces profound changes for 2012 that have been prepared during the preceding years, according to a graduated process: “great transformation”, then “transition” and finally “becoming”.90

Moreover, Lee Carroll, accompanied by other “channellers”, spreads the words of Kryéon, “angel in the service of magnetism”91, to people who are supposedly predisposed to receive them. The objective is to awaken the divine in them and to become an agent charged to spread peace on Earth.

They are grounded on Indigo Children92, who are also the vectors of changing the world from now till 1012. Initially forged by Nancy Tappe, then retaken by Lee Carroll and Jan Tober, the theory of Indigo Children specifies that they are endowed with an indigo blue coloured aura. Often untypical in their behaviour, these children with a behaviour out of the traditional norms, thus reputed to be difficult, notably on all that concerns schooling, are the “star seeds” of the future.

According to this movement, these children justify a special education, that is a particular technique of detection based upon EMF Balancing Technique (a technique of harmonization of the human electromagnetic field). The public powers were alerted in the first decade of the XXIst century on the risks generated by the theory of indigo children, notably in the milieu of hospitals and school. We see as well a putting into question of scientific concepts as sickness will be healed by the simple posing of the hands and by only the power of energy. Finally, among members of this movement we should be worried about possible brutal changes of behaviour, of destabilization of the individual and family, that is, about a rupture with reality of the world in order to not invest in his future life in more than the only important belief: the arrival of cosmic entities that favour a change of era.

“Thus the planet will submit to great upheavals on two levels: human mutation and the arrival of extraterrestrials on Earth. A new human race will be born thanks to indigo children (children, angels, extraterrestrials) that will mark the debut of a new generation because their DNA is different than that of other humans. They possess the capacity and potential to completely transform the Earth. Beginning in 2012, humans will vibrate at an elevated frequency, and, endowed with wings, they will be able to create miracles on Earth.

“The ‘star seeds’, a sort of evolved being. will arrive from other planets, from another solar system or another galaxy and will act as a divine intervention in the name of the Galactic Federation, of spiritual hierarchies, the Elohims93 and the Masters of Time. The indigo children will be ready for this new energy and for this mission: they are the new light warriors.94

[Good lord. You have to admit that this New Age nonsense certainly makes it easy for Miviludes to ridicule ideas that are outside of the mainstream. “Hey, Marguerite! We’re gonna have wings!” The stupidity of New Age ideas is an element we have been repeating for years. Of course, Miviludes never offers any “paths of reflection” on the role of the security forces in propagating this nonsense. But when you’re reading about their plans for spying on all these groups below, ask yourself if it is a conspiracy... or does the fact that Miviludes is publishing this tripe mean it is in the open, and therefore is not a conspiracy?]

The Essenes

The Essene movement or the Essenia Foundation is led by Olivier Martin, who calls himself Olivier Manitara, who, for over fifteen years, has undertaken multiple associative 95and commercial activities based upon a doctrinal message founded on apocalyptic theses.96

This movement is based upon a doctrine oriented towards a syncretic, eschatological movement with an apocalyptic and esoteric tendency of the New Age type.

[Whew, they have little boxes for each of these groups. Long live Cartesian thought!]

The Essenia foundation presents itself as a charitable work having different objectives:

“ - To promote a new ecology of man and nature;
to take care of common goods and of life in all its manifestations;
to preserve the treasures of nature;
to cultivate, protect and spread the Essene wisdom;
to promote the quality of Essene life around the world.97”

Olivier Martin began publishing at the beginning of the 1990s works such as L’Alchimie spirituelle de l’ère du Verseau98 (Spiritual Alchemy of the Age of Aquarius), therein mixing New Age discourse and spiritual concepts considered to come from an Essene affiliation. The word “Essene” designates all men and all women who do not limit their identity to their biological family or their nation but who feel themselves to be a citizen of the world, that is to say to be truly human.

[Uh oh. Having an allegiance to something higher than the La Patrie, The Homeland, puts you in their bad books... John Lennon’s Imagine must be sectarian! Imagine!]

Self-proclaimed as an Essene Master, Olivier Martin presents himself as a pedagogue, composer, writer, choreographer, painter, teacher of several techniques of enlightenment and self therapy, and a speaker at conferences. He published in 2006 a work entitled Vie et œuvre d’un fils du Soleil [Life and Work of a Son of the Sun] in hommage to the master Omraam Mikhaël Aïvanhov, founder of the group the Universal White Fraternity.

In France, a group issued from from this community established themselves in Aveyron in 1992 in order to develop there a teaching called “School of Life and Spirit” (École de vie et d’esprit). Training sessions are today foreseen in a “Contemporary Essene School”, with education and practical methods.99

Vigilance with respect to this group is motivated by the use of multiple New Age themes, imprinted with references to theories of the world and UFO themes.

Founded on the “solar culture” and celebrating the solstices and equinoxes, this movement prophesies the end of the world for December 21, 2012, date of the winter solstice. At the beginning of 2011, the Essenia group made references for its future seminars to the following themes: “2012, the hour of choice approaches: What is the future for the Earth and humanity? Towards the coming of a new humanity rising together with the necessity of a union of all to offer another future to the Earth.” Great “universal” assemblies were realized by the group of Olivier Manitara in Quebec, in France, in Africa and in Haiti in September and October 2010 to hear the message of the Archangel Michael for 2012.100 Seminars were also announced for January 2011 in the south of France.

It has also made reference to doctrines of a UFO type linked to theories of angels, theatrical rituals of the “round of archangels” (Internet site affiliated to the practices of the Essenia foundation: www.rondedesarchanges.com), and large celebrations for the benefit of the Archangel Gabriel. It is said, for example, that the last-named “must return and thus we must know how to receive him in order that he accomplishes his prophecies, humanity today being in the process of reliving that which our Atlantian ancestors lived, conforming to numerous predictions announcing the end of the age of iron and the debut of a new golden age, a new civilization must see the day101...”

The movement’s ambition is to create an “Essene centre of accompaniment of the end of life” to accompany “by grace of the Essene knowledge, the soul in the afterlife” 102.

The Children of God or The Family

The group the Children of God developed in France at the beginning of the 1970s before being dissolved on December 29, 1978.

But, as often happens, the same group continued its activities under other names including the Family of Love, the Family, or the International Family.

Previously they made themselves known in France and in other countries under diverse names: Mission for the World, Heaven’s Boys and Heaven’s Girls Ministries, World Service, the Singing Arrows, Heaven’s Love, Families Without Borders, Family Service Centres, International Missionary Service and International Missionary Action.

This group appeared at its beginning with an imprint of religiousness, with a particular interpretation of sacred texts and a discourse advocating the coming Apocalypse.

Later, after the death of the leader, in the 1990s, the movement tried to change its dogmas and opened itself to concepts spread by the New Age with more and more pregnant references to the extraterrestrial world and unidentified flying objects.

According to the testimony received by Miviludes from Amoreena Winkler103, a former adept of the Children of God from a young age:

“This internal doctrinal change did not annul the apocalyptic character; to the contrary, it reinforced it.

“The new New Ageist currents in fact reinforced the notion of the ‘end of the world’ itself. Moreover, the Family always knew how to appropriate and use elements external to itself to reinforce its discourse. The essence of the message is still the same as at its origin: the notion of passage, the upending of our era towards something else for which we must be ready.

“In fact, anything that can feed the fire is good to use and does nothing but reinforce the desired effect: control.

“The Family thus realized trances, phenomena of possession by the Holy Spirit, and voluntarily engendered scenes of collective hysteria for everyone in the community.

“I believed for a long time that I would not grow to become an adult, the end of the world was so close...and I prepared myself mentally to receive the bullets of a firing squad.”

Myriam Declair104, another former adept of the Children of God, also delivered her testimony to Miviludes. She indicated that the apocalyptic discourse constitutes the central axis of the doctrine and the action of the Children of God. Apocalyptic events were announced several times by the leader of the group, beginning in 1973.

These announcements were followed by the purchase of food, material, and survival kits in large quantities. The climate installed during these predictions of the end of the world generated a strong feeling of anxiety towards people outside of the group, of whom the largest number must be saved.

Myriam Declair105 underlines how much the hold of a leader, using such a discourse, can conduct an adept to annihilate all personal projection into a viable future, that is to say, to commit fatal ends.

[Gosh, it sounds like many Americans, including some of the Republican presidential candidates...]

Jehovah’s Witnesses

The Jehovah's Witnesses form a Christian Millennarist religious movement with an apocalyptic doctrine. Founded in 1881 in Pennsylvania (USA) by Charles Taze Russell and Nelson Horatio Barbour, they represent without a doubt the best known movement in France (with approximately 130,000 members), thanks to the proselytizing of their missionaries and their habit of evangelizing door-to-door.

Strictly Biblical in their references, this group is apocalyptic in the measure where they announce the wiping out of the actual world by a battle between the forces of evil and the Armies of God.

“After having prophesied the end of the world 1914, 1925 and 1975, the Jehovah’s Witnesses have given up giving a precise date. But, as their publication Watch Tower indicates, they remain on the alert, watching for all signs of the end of ‘the system of actual things’, and they do not doubt that it is close.”106

One of the members of the Jehovah’s Witnesses reported in June 2006:

“We feel there is an imminence, which has no date, but, for us, is more and more clear. We are living in the last days. We think it is very close. The prophecies of the Bible, we see them happening....

“[...] Hope such as it comes out of the predictions of the Jehovah’s Witnesses is that of paradise. But, during all the meetings, even if they don’t make much of an echo in their evangelizing to avoid the slightly frightening and very negative side of ‘apocalyptic cult’, paradise is systematically linked to the coming of the Apocalypse.

“In fact, it is a bit as if their hope for future eternal life is linked to the destruction of all their contemporaries [...] Hope for a Jehovah’s Witness finally is mixed with a perverse desire to see his contemporaries die because that signifies the coming of the awaited paradise. From that flows at the same time the responsibility inducted into the evangelization, transmitted very early on to the children. You carry the responsibility of the life of your comrades. Imagine that you know there will be an earthquake, if you do not warn everyone, you are a murderer. There, it is the same thing: you know the world will disappear; if you do not warn them that they must become Jehovah’s Witnesses to survive this condemned world, you bear the responsibility for their death[...].

“Concerning the end times of which the adept must be persuaded, a point that is important to remember consists of inculcating that it would be useless for the adept to make any future projects; better to give your money to the group which will know how to best invest it for the future.”107

The Raëlians

The Raëlians await their salvation from extraterrestrials - the Elohims - who should have landed on Earth after the Apocalypse in the year 2000. They have spoken in their writings (Accueillir les extraterrestres108 Welcoming the Extraterrestrials) of a message addressed by their leader Raël to the men of the Earth entitled The Apocalypse of the Final Nuclear Cataclysm: “There is unfortunately only one chance in a hundred that your humanity will not self-destruct... The seventh seal represents the final cataclysm, the world atomic war that will end with the destruction of all life on Earth...”109

For Claude Vorilhon, alias Raël, “humanity will be destroyed if man does not apply the principles of ‘geniocracy’, the mode of government and social organization directing the planet of the Elohims. As a conscientious chief, he thus forms the elite that will welcome the extraterrestrials, in other words, the Raélians, uncommon men and women, who alone will be saved from the imminent Apocalypse.”110

Tabitha’s Place Movement

The group Tabitha’s Place is a Christian religious movement of the fundamentalist and apocalyptic type of North American origin111 that justifies its entire life by a strictly literal reading of the Bible of which the study must be daily and the knowledge of the texts perfect in all circumstances. This community is founded under the form of communities called tribes.

Founded in 1972 in the Unites States under the name of the Northeast Kingdom Community by Elbert Eugene Spriggs (an itinerant merchant converted to bringing help to drug addicts), the group Tabitha’s Place came to France at the beginning of the 1980s and has lived since in a closed community. It is established under the Association Law of 1901 under the name Therapeutic Healing Environment (THE).

According to general opinion, the education received in the community is very rigourous. Not legally declared and unschooled, the children are susceptible to being punished through corporeal punishment112 and are incited to refuse any illicit pleasurable activity. They are forbidden to go out unaccompanied and notably only for the weekly outing, the market, where they proselytize through the sale of bread, organic food, and the distribution of tracts and “preaching”.

The rupture with the world seems total (no audiovisual media, no newspapers, no books, no music). Even their spoken language (English) in a group living in France marginalizes them.

In 1997, a child of nineteen months suffering from a heart malformation died following the refusal of the parents, adepts of this movement, to furnish him with the care needed for his state. They were condemned in 2001 to twelve years of criminal imprisonment by the court in Haut-Pyrénées for deprivation of care and food having led to death, as well as ten years of loss of civic, civil, and family rights.

Scattered Small Groups

Besides the large movements, the French panorama is characterized more and more by the proliferation of microgroups that can form from one day to the next and with great discretion around an isolated leader. By using the theme of the end of the world as a federating element to elicit curiosity, interest or the confidence of new adepts, this leader will progressively exercise a veritable control, with damaging consequences on the material, psychological and even physical level in the most extreme cases.

It is impossible to give an exhaustive overview of these groups which have a very small size, a diffused character over the whole of the territory, and extremely discrete conditions as to their creation and functioning, outside of any manifestations visible from the exterior which can elude the vigilance of the specialized services.

Miviludes will therefore only take up in this report the most evocative cases that have been brought to its attention, which does not mean that other groups do not exist or do not present the risks of sectarian offshoots. Finally, certain groups could not yet be identified. The Interministerial Mission even calls the concerned services of the State to a duty of supplementary watchfulness regarding these very volatile groups.

 

[henry]

In France as Elsewhere the Spreading of Apocalyptic Messages, Essentially of the New Age type, Happens By the Intermediary of the Internet

[Ah, yes. That dastardly Internet, which as they say later, democratizes the spread of and access to information. They kinda sound like the Catholic Church fighting Luther.]

The factor of the Internet plays, through the vector of social networks, blogs, and discussion forums, a very important role:

Either in the popularization of apocalyptic theses, which through their anxiety-ridden character can favour the later emergence of phenomena of control over people;

- Or through the veritable constitution of minigroups, which expose directly their members to these offshoots of a sectarian nature.

In the first hypothesis, it is not a question of talking about constituted groups but rather individuals who develop on their blogs and Internet sites theories that could rapidly promote a hold over fragile or vulnerable people, thus opening the door to every form of offshoot, in the best of cases of a commercial nature, and in the worst, to incitement to acts that are dangerous for the physical integrity of the Internauts. Their number is impossible to determine as the offer of the Net is multiple and varied. It suffices to type in “2012 End of the World” on the Internet to have a vague idea. We can nevertheless evoke here certain sites that are very evocative, essentially of a New Age inspiration:

The site “Planetary Ascension” (www.ascensionplanetaire.com) defining itself as a site that brings together “the activity of awakening humanity and of the planetary ascension in progress [and] a place of knowledge, teaching, channeling, diverse information, having at its aim the improvement of the self [...] and the planet Earth.”113

In reality the site makes place for all sorts of publications and texts emanating from diverse authors and consecrated to themes like “planetary ascension”, the “ascended masters”, the “evolution of the world and of nature”. It also contains messages from “light beings” who announce the coming changes: “Today, almost everywhere in the world, the messages from the light beings talk to us of the changes that are announced for the Earth, and therefore for humanity. The hour is of the awakening of the ancients, in order that the Phoenix is reborn from its ashes and from love bursts forth the New Alliance.”114

Numerous texts and documentaries are more particularly consecrated to the year 2012, which constitutes a central dossier of the site, with references to the Mayan calendar, to the coming of paradise on earth at this date, to the notion of the “ascension” of the world...115

We can also cite the case of the association Du ciel à la terre (From Heaven to Earth), a UFO group situated in Dordogne. Declared in 1989, this association has as its aim to “study, make known and spread the teaching given by light beings in order to practice the art of living and of harmonious thought for the man of tomorrow”.

Monique Mathieu, the medium who leads the association, claims to have been initiated by light beings and has practiced channelling (as in the Ramtha group) since 1988. The light beings are God, Jesus Christ, the Archangel Michael, Egyptian, Greek, Roman, Inca, Aztec gods and other spiritual masters.

The association develops two sites: _www.ducielalaterre.org presenting different theories and _www.source.ducielalaterre reserved for the teachings of the light beings channelled by Monique Mathieu.

On December 7, 1999, this medium announced “the substitution of a new Earth for the old Earth during the year 2000” and developed theories of an apocalyptic type.

For 2012, there is not strictly speaking a prediction of the end of the world but rather the announcement of a passage to other dimensions that must be apprehended: “We are happy to welcome this new year, as you say, because it is an important year, a year of the changing of a cycle. It is a year that will see born in you another reality of yourselves, it is a year during which you will have great joys, great emotions, it is the year that opens the door to the fourth dimension.”116

“No matter what happens, you must absolutely not fear 2012! The reason is that for the moment no human can really know what is the transition, no human can really know what will happen in 2012 or shortly before. [...] We must not forget that the current epoch of the whole planet is one of fear: fear of losing a job, fear of being sick, fear, fear, multiple fears. [...] It will not be at all as you think! Anyway we cannot tell you because you do not yet have the consciousness necessary to understand what will happen. The only thing that we can tell you is that very soon you will be different. We must give you the means to be different.”117

[This type of word salad, which means less than nothing, makes it so easy for Miviludes... You’d almost think it was planned.]

As of September 2010, 520 messages supposedly given by these light beings since 1988 have been put online, with over 1.6 million registered visitors since February 1999. The frequentation and the number of visits to this site, that can only be reinforced more with the approach of 2012, calls for necessary vigilance.

In the second hypothesis, veritable groups can be created thanks to the hold a charismatic leader can exercise over people through the web. Even if no physical meeting is had, the risks of sectarian offshoots are very present.

Miviludes thus had to handle a case in February 2011 of a group of people put under the influence of an individual of Quebecois origin who called himself “Flot”, only through the bias of regular exchanges on diverse social networks. Calling his adepts with the name “Divine Children” or “brothers and sisters of the light”, he regularly addressed them electronic messages in which he invited each one to live “a divine relation” with him and then undertake “an ascension to be born in a light vessel and quit this world for a new universe”. To do this, “mental preparation” was necessary so that each “could raise his vibration rate and live the final ascension”. Certain people who maintained regular exchanges with “Flot” and who, according to him, were “almost ready for take off” went so far as to make their final preparations (notary, funeral homes).

Confronted with the imminence of the passing to action, competent inquiry services were ordered to contact the people residing in France, principally in Bourgogne, susceptible to being in danger. Miviludes established as well a link with the Canadian authorities in order that they could intervene with their nationals. This affair, which is the object of an attentive follow-up on the part of the Interministerial Mission and the competent authorities, shows the risks of extreme offshoots, happily without any consequences in this precise case, to which messages of an apocalyptic type can lead.

In a slightly different register, we can cite the case of the UFO group Golden Light Starseeds created by Jean Michel Surmely.

On his Internet site118, this last named announces that “the starseeds, the ‘star people’ and other ‘children of the stars’ are part of the teams of the Flotilla of the Golden Light, the force in charge of the ascension of the planet Earth in the name of the Confederation of Free Planets, also called the Galactic Light Confederation”.119 He adds several precisions on his vision of the coming world: “We can expect chaos on all levels from now until 2012...”; the date 2012 “represents the finalization of all the cycles, including the great orbital cycle of twenty-six thousand years with the alignment of the Earth, the Sun, and the centre of the Milky Way. Terrestrial civilization must become spiritual or disappear. The evaluation of 35% of the population capable of transiting with the Earth to the 5th dimension is still real, the rest will part in a parallel universe of the 3rd or 4th dimension...” He also proposes diverse products to ensure the protection of all in the face of coming events, such as the “auroral stone” (sold at 35 euro for five stones) and other indispensable tools (cosmic eggs, merkabah crystals), payment to be made to Jean-Michel Surmely, Arkansas, United States...

New Ageist Inspiration of the End of the World Goes Beyond the Internet and is found in multiple conferences, seminars, works and revues, but also in meditation, yoga, and holistic relaxation clubs

[It’s everywhere! It’s everywhere! Yoga! Meditation! If it isn’t part of the Monotheistic Churches, it’s gotta be bad!]

There exists in France a multitude of works of reflection, seminars, and conferences on the theme of the end of the world in 2012, proposed to the curiosity of a public not always sufficiently warned about the necessity of having a certain distance vis-a-vis these strongly anxious predictions. The offer is here also extremely well furnished and varied and it would be fastidious, is not useless, to make a list.

It is nevertheless interesting, as a means of prevention, to evoke the example of Gilles Sinquin, who announces in his book Preparing oneself for 2012 120 what we will live up until 2012: “receptions by individuals of a colossal descent of pure energy coming from the cosmos inducing the living of dark moments, of which some will live as the experience of resurrection, being sufficiently evolved, and others, not wanting to let go, will live as a real infernal crisis...” and what we will live after 2012: “the appearance of a new world, humanity entering into the 5th dimension. Everything will pass through vibratory level while constantly living with subtle deep feelings and silence... It will be the beginning of a golden age, men thinking differently and living in constant balance and the spiritualization of all our thoughts.”

Gilles Sinquin as well brings into his work precisions and advice to put into effect which he calls “consciousness therapy” to aid the maximum number of people to “transit to the higher frequency of the 4th dimension. In fact, attaining the 5th dimension in 2012 will be very difficult to live for all those who, uninformed, will have not begun their interior transformation.” This book thus permits to “use the higher frequency in order to not reprogramme new cellular memories and thus transmute the dense energies of the 3rd dimension by a very simple method: light transmutation... When light energy penetrates each cell, it will spiritualize the human being... We thus become our own master in order to live consciously his personal ascension being in harmony with the acceleration of time...” He also produces films on the subject including a DVD titled 2012 Ascension Planetaire (2012 Planetary Ascension).

It is a veritable programme regularly presented by its author in paid conferences organized in France and Switzerland all during the year 2011. The content of the themes evoked in these conferences can only call forth a strong prudence.

We can also cite the case of Claude Traks, presenting himself as a researcher, writer121, speaker at conferences, and therapeutic practitioner.

In his last work entitled Dernières pièces du puzzle. Objectif 2012. La mission spirituelle de l’Europe et de la France (Last Pieces of the Puzzle. Objective 2012. The Spiritual Mission of Europe and France) (Paris, Communicare), offers “to know how to prepare for changing the level of consciousness”.122 He also tries to explain “what are the conditions humanity must fulfill to avoid that the worst predictions of the Apocalypse come to pass during the decade that just started, and this in order to have access to a new epoch. This energy will culminate in 2012.”123

Courses in meditation are also very popular.

We can cite here, as a particularly noteworthy example, the case of the association Turquoise, created in 1988, with the aim “of promoting and developing all activity, manifestation or teaching permitting the blooming of the human person.” Marie Kubler, a yoga teacher since 1982 and a holistic relaxologist124, proposes among other things, through this association and on the Internet site www.yoga-relaxation-holistic.fr.gd/, training sessions for “regeneration and preparation for the planetary changes to come and necessary ascension” (training foreseen for August 2011).

Besides the messages with a New Age inspiration, there exists a discourse with a religious inspiration in prayer groups in which the leader can act as a veritable guru

In this register, and for information purposes, we can recall the existence of prayer groups that did not manifest specifically for 2012, but which have developed in the recent past theses of an apocalyptic nature,

Such as the Glorious Cross of Dozulé. This movement is among the groups qualified as millennarist, waiting with impatience the return of God to Earth. This group was born in the 1970s, in Calvados, following diverse divine apparitions before a mother of five children, Madeleine Aumont. These apparitions were mixed or not with oral communications constituting the essential of the transmitted message.

“Thus Christ appeared thirty-eight times to Madeleine to announce the cataclysm of this generation and the time of His return in glory. For the moment, it is the time of the supreme effort of Evil against Christ, it is the hour of Satan who leads the world. Nimble in his prison, he occupies the entire face of the Earth and will drag the world into a catastrophe such as has not happened since the Flood and that before the end of the century, that is to say, the year 2000. The Great Tribulation is near... days of distress and calamity will hit the entire Earth.”125

Following these apparitions and the resulting predictions, thirty or so adepts quit their families, their professions, to install themselves in Loire-Atlantique and to escape the announced nuclear war...

We can also recall the group Néo-Phare, already discussed126, in which the process of sectarian withdrawal, founded on a “personal” analysis of the Bible by twenty one “apostles”, and the precepts of the guru Auguste Bouguenec, and then after his death, Arnaud Mussy, the self-proclaimed “reincarnation of Christ”, led to all of the group living shut off for several weeks at a farm near Nantes, awaiting the Apocalypse. This mental control led an adept to commit suicide and two others to make an attempt.

The Religious or Pretended Messianic Message Can Also Sometimes Be Used and Exploited In Order to Control Adepts, at the Risk of Leading Them To Acts Gravely Prejudicial to Their Health and their Safety

The functioning of the group called Minh Vacma is an illustration. Created at the beginning of the 2000s by Alain Schmitt, called the “guru of Algrange”, this group assembled in Moselle diverse people in difficulty with society and several marginal people to whom Alain Schmitt taught a teaching destined to ensure their personal blooming. The community brought together a dozen or so people living in reality according to very strict mode, having a vegetarian diet, an extreme practice of martial arts and punishments in the case of breaking the rules. His teaching, which he dispensed not only within the group but also during a number of conferences in France and abroad, notably in Belgium, were inspired by, other than New Age concepts, Manichaeism, martial arts and a cinematographic imagination, theories clearly millennarist, which is proved by the following: “I am not Jesus, but almost”; “Our Earth will soon self-destruct and unfortunately no one has the power to react”; “Everything heads towards destruction and that which we call the Apocalypse”; “We will all soon die, lose our freedom, our dignity of life, like our children”; “One day, I’ll disappear like the members of the Solar Temple”... He also formulated predictions of the end of the world which were based upon “scientific conclusions based on mathematical facts”. Alain Schmitt was condemned, after opposition to a first judgement, to one year in prison pronounced by the appeals court in Metz in September 2010, for violence in meetings, extortion of money and sequestering.

The case of a comparable figure occurred amidst a group created by Robert Le Dinh, called “Tang”, condemned by the court of Ariège in September 2010 to 15 years imprisonment for theft, sexual aggression and abuse of weakness.127 Saying that he received a revelation from Christ in 1982, making of him “the servant”, “the elected saint” or the “third Messiah”, he delivered a messianic message centred on Jesus Christ. According to the testimony delivered during the trail, he managed to bring under his sway several people, sometimes during twenty years, including some who were perfectly inserted in society (for example, a tribunal clerk and a customs agent). According to the words of the Public Minister to the audience “R. Le Dinh put everything into place so that his adepts and most particularly the women were subjected”; he used coercive techniques, such as the right of return, in virtue of which the adepts would run the risk of catastrophe if they left the straight path”; “the mental destabilization he generated annihilated the capacity of resistance of the members of his group.”

Certain Geographical Sites Can Favour the Expression of Apocalyptic Theses

There exist in fact sites which, through their location, their history, beliefs or traditions, can present an interest regarding the objectives of this report.

The village of Bugarach seems to be currently the point of assembly of numerous people, mostly adepts of the New Age, persuaded that this commune in Aude will be saved at the moment of the unleashing of the Apocalypse.

Several “explanations” circulate about this site: a powerful magnetic force, the esoteric character which gives it the name of “the sacred mountain”, the mythical existence of underground life, passage to unknown worlds or vanished civilizations, shelter for an extraterrestrial base, site of the burial of the Ark of the Temple, etc. In fact, this commune does not only interest members of different apocalyptic or survivalist groups, but also other movements, particularly, flying saucerists.

All the hypotheses linked to the apocalyptic thesis are developed by the “adepts” of the Pic of Bugarach: earthquakes, floods and cataclysms of all types linked to the inversion of the magnetic poles, the heightened intensity of solar activity, collision with the planet Nibiru, etc.

The site of Bugarach thus seems to be a site to watch and this more particularly with the approach of the year 2012, notably regarding possible trouble to public order constituted by important assemblies of people. For the moment, it is above all a mercantile exploitation of the “virtues” of the site that we see, including on the level of tourism and real estate. But the organization of training, of free or paying conferences. and visits to the site by groups notably inspired by New Age ideas are not to be neglected, facing the potential risk of people being put under control or simply con jobs organized in an opportune manner in reference to the mystical character of the place.

To remind you, already in 1999 the adepts of the group Garum and Khoum undertook to dig in all illegality, in Bretagne, in the region of Lorient, underground chambers, capable of sheltering “bunkers” in order to avoid the Big Bang due in 2006. Alerted by the mayor of the commune, the specialized services of the central direction of the judicial police, ordered by the judge, discovered a subterranean room of more than 300 m2 , 5 metres deep, under a thick cover of cement. A dolmen and two menhirs had been placed in the centre of the room. But the subterranean structure also had collective kitchens, a metal workshop, and enormous generator, an amphitheatre and several rooms decorated with apocalyptic frescos.128

 

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Indices of the Perception of risk

The phenomena of mental control are in themselves difficult to diagnose or uncover. It often takes an informed eye capable of knowing how to decrypt a situation of dependence which is hidden most of the time or denied on the part of the victim.

Exerted in the context of a group inspired by apocalyptic or Millennarist theses, this control will present its own characteristics that necessitate, in order to be identified, a gaze all the sharper as the potential risk is that of the passing to action potentially could take the form of serious violence against people or society.

[Oh, dear. What garbage. So many qualifications to drum up fear. “Potential” this of a “potential” that. And after their tour of the world’s cults, what threat is there really? But, then, we saw above that the purpose of the world tour, around the world in eighty cults, was not to describe a danger, “potential” or otherwise, but to reassure the French that all this irrational behaviour on their soil was not unique to the French!]

As well, faithful to its role of preventing risky sectarian phenomena, Miviludes wishes to put at the disposition of the public and the concerned actors of the State a certain number of indices that permit the detection of the existence of groups with potentially dangerous millennarist or apocalyptic tendencies, that is, in extreme cases, to reveal the manifestation of precursor signs of passing to criminal acts or a heightened propensity to the exercise of violence.

Remember: all apocalyptic or Millennarist groups to not automatically promote passing to criminal acts. Many of them will never know it, very happily. But the historical precedents described above oblige a certain prudence and recall Miviludes to it task of information.

[What a sleazy formulation. “A certain prudence”?We’ll see below that “a certain prudence” means constant surveillance of all of these groups and real-time reading of their email and posting on the web... so that they can be immediately alerted when the groups “tip to violence”.

Imagine if every time you got into your car, you had a personal bureaucrat who came out to warn you that driving a car could be dangerous. During the drive, he would sit in the back watching everything you did, calling out whenever he thought you were putting yourself in danger. And how much more dangerous is driving a car than the supposed threat from “apocalyptic or Millennarist type sectarian offshoots”?

Not only that. Even though Miviludes graciously allows that not all these groups will become violent, they insist that they all should be watched... because you never know. Any one of them could tip “from one day to the next” into violence.]

According to Jean-Pierre Jougla, “in the apocalyptic or Millenarist discourse of the sectarian type, the delirium are very constructed and the passing to the act, if there are such, are not carried out under an impulsive blow. They are the result of a more or less long maturing and of numerous factors.”

[But wait, elsewhere, Miviludes insists that these groups can tip “from one day to the next”, and that argument forms the basis of their call for continual vigilance. Hey, guys. You’re contradicting yourselves. They would probably argue that the ’tipping point’ comes after a period of maturation, that is, after a long period of careful maturation, they get impulsive. ]

It is these factors we will now present.

Some preliminary remarks are however necessary.

First, this list is only indicative. It is also far from being exhaustive. Its aim is only to help in identifying risky situations. Several mechanisms can in fact enter into action and a unique factor will not itself alone reveal the existence of danger or the imminence of the passing to action. It is rather the combination of several indices that can and must alert us.

Also, as efficient as they are, these factors must also be “observable”. [Which we guess is why they suggest that ‘surveillance’ be increased on all of these groups... that is... spying on them. But it isn’t spying when the cause is just! Hey, isn’t that rationale what the cults use? “Our Mission justifies breaking the law”? Nice when you can change the law to suit your needs!] In fact, these indications can constitute alert signals on the condition that they can be seen from the exterior. Because, as Jean-Pierre Jougla reminds us, “unless it can be raised to a general rule, passing to the criminal or suicidal act occurs often in the secrecy of the group and most of the time without the latter expressing to the exterior its conviction of an imminent apocalypse inducing the sacrifice of the adepts or the commission of criminal acts directed towards the exterior.” Therein lies all the difficulty of vigilance regarding groups that are often closed, that is, unknown to the public powers.

Finally, remember, there exist groups for which no element permits the determination of apocalyptic origins and the internal factors of danger and which could tip from one day to the next into extreme behaviour, without any true precursor signs (cf the case of the OST).

[This contradicts what they are saying above, that these things don’t happen on impulse, but are the result of a maturing...]

Under reserve of these appreciations, a certain number of indices of perception of risk can be proposed, linked to:

the doctrine of the group;
the internal functioning of the group;
relations of the group with the exterior;
an overactivity of the group in relation to certain phenomena;
flagrant preparatory acts.

Concerning the doctrines used:

The existence of a dialectic, a particular semantic linked to the apocalyptic, Millennarist or Messianic discourse. This can be in relation also with the use of a rhetoric full of mysticism, esoterism and/or the irrational, pushed to the extreme (linked with extraterrestrial life, intergalactic voyages, planetary ascension...);

the existence of a discourse valuing types of post-miillennarist beliefs, that is, searching to provoke the end of the world rather than the pre-millennarist theses which depend upon divine intervention to change the times (cf. infra);

development of an exclusive and excluding doctrine, by a dualist and paranoid vision of society: affirmation in the group and in the milieu of the adepts of the same feeling of belonging to a small number of those who will be the “only ones saved”. The members of the sectarian group are the “good”, the “elected” holding the sole truth, the rest of society is confined to the role of “the bad ones”, who are in “error”, and who it is better to avoid, or at worst fight.;

the existence of a doctrine rejecting knowledgeable authorities or diabolizing or reinterpreting the great religions;

presence of a doctrine that puts into question the reality of society by a systematic reinterpretation of world events via the filter of a communitarian dogmatic vision specific to the group, often very much deforming the world events interpreted;

when a collectivity believes itself invested with a divine mission of salvation or proselytizing others, based on prophecies of the end of the world, it will develop a feeling of fear that will communicate in a contagious way throughout the community.

• Concerning the internal mode of functioning in the group:

when the group is led by a strongly charismatic personality, with a strong ego or not but developing, in counterpart, a natural ascendence over the other members, that is, an “instinctive or primitive” intelligence permitting them to dominate the other members of the community;

when a group establishes a strict and centralized hierarchy of the patriarchal type (or not) within a community dominated by a charismatic leader to whom the adepts vow a veritable cult of the personality;

when there is a relation of total dependence or when the leader calls for blind obedience, not matter what the consequences for the members of the group: demands for an absolute loyalty to the leader under threat of death, exclusion and abandonment, with total implication in the group and the impossibility of criticism or questioning the internal precepts of the group;

inversely, when, in spite of these principals, an internal leadership struggle for the group and a putting into question of the rules occurs (cf. case of OST);

when activities of a movement are realized with the aim of exploiting people, by fatigue or by removing from him all capacity of discernment;

when there develops a “sectarian” type group mode of life, inducing a desired radical modification vision and searching for an existence towards a particular vision of the world, separate from the traditional and ordinary vision of the outside world.

• Concerning the relations of the group with the outside world:

- development of a discourse of diabolization and rejection of the outside world, presented as thoroughly bad, corrupt and pernicious;
affirmation of an extreme proselytization with troubles with the public order;

or, inversely, a total closing of the group on itself and living completely in complete autarchy. This autarchy can be reinforced in a closed milieu with changes of visible behaviour: closing off from the surrounding world, a closing off (in psychological terms) or isolation of members which translates into “a fear of being soiled by outside influences which could harm the final project of the group”;
existence of a certain form of social and familial isolation, sometimes also professional, a putting into retreat of the adept and his community inducing a radical cut from reality and surrounding society;

acceptance of having no further contact with the outside world (TV, radio, Internet, press...);

development of a feeling of persecution by the outside world and the surrounding society.

Concerning an exacerbated reaction to outside phenomena:

perception of a “humiliating” or aggressive manner of the group to unexpected situations or outside events: for example in the case of a prophecy of the apocalyptic type which isn’t realized or after the arrest or death of a charismatic leader leaving the group in uncertainty. These particular situations must give way to an extreme vigilance on the part of the public powers;

[And what does the constant surveillance of the State on these groups to to their mental health?]

settling in the countryside: this indication is often the evidence of a retreat at once physical and psychological of the group in relation to the outside world, settling in the countryside which makes surveillance by public powers more difficult and which reinforces the cohesion within the group in order to exercise greater control over the all the members. This situation can also shine a light on preparations of defence or of the planning of acts of violence or self-destruction foreseen in a group’s apocalyptic scenario;

manifestation of a dimension of “collective hysteria”: this factor is an essential facilitating element in the growth in power of the irrational in the group and the passing to the programmed act. This indication can also be perceived “at a distance” by former adepts who still have contacts in the group, or by families of the victim adepts who are still in contact.

Concerning flagrant preparatory acts:

- knowledge or visible manifestations of orders given internally to build up reserves of survival: shipping of containers, purchases of large quantities of food, constitution of stocks and reserves, arms purchases, construction of “bunkers” and subterranean shelters...;

not normal debt of the adepts brought on by the necessity of achieving all the purchases by each member for the destination of the group before the realization of the end of the world;

intensification of illegal activities: this will often translate into a marked increase in the purchase of arms;

more and more violent discourse by the group or the leader. Use of a dialectic of “persecution” can have its importance; this indication can notably be observed via Internet surveillance realized in blogs, sites of exchange or Internet sites belonging to the group;

identically, the enunciation of promises of “the resolution of all problems with a new start”, of a “new world”, of a “new age”, of “astral voyage”, of “ascension” on blogs, social sites and the Internet sites of movements should attract attention. The use of these precise terms, heavy with meaning, can indicate that a group has arrived at the threshold of critical “fervour” and it is ready to pass from talking to action.

Faced with these risks, what should be the attitude of the public and the concerned institutions of the State? How to anticipate the coming of a drama and reacting in time so that it does not happen?

Conforming to its mission, Miviludes has elaborated a certain number of propositions destined to reinforce a raising of collective awareness and to ameliorate the efficiency of preventative action by the public powers.

Paths of Reflection for Preventative Action of the Public Powers

For a real coming to awareness

Reinforce the awareness of the public agents of the state and the territorial collectivities in the face of the sectarian problematic with the approach of 2012

The training already given to bureaucrats and agents of the State on the sectarian problematic in general demonstrates that action of information and sensitizing are essential for arriving at an increased awareness, without a doubt insufficiently spread, on the measure and the multiple manifestations of the sectarian phenomenon in France, as well as on the numerous threats to individual liberties to which it can lead.

A growth of the activity of apocalyptic, Millennarist, or New Age inspired movements to be foreseen during the years 2011 and 2012, with an accentuation of the phenomenon - already visible as indicated before in the south-west of France - to the degree that we approach the fateful date of December 21, 2012, it is necessary, beginning in 2011 and until the end of the year 2012, to reinforce the information and sensitizing in this domain for all the services of the State susceptible of being concerned by this problematic.

This is obviously the meaning of the present annual report given to the Prime Minister, and its distribution to the concerned publics will be assured by Miviludes.

Miviludes will also devote in each of its training sessions during 2011 and 2012 a development specific to the actual observed resurgence of apocalyptic messages of a sectarian origin.

The objective aims to give clear and objective information on the doctrines and movements susceptible of propagating these anxiety-ridden theories, and to show the potential dangers and to permit, with the view of prevention, the earliest detection of precursor signs or of risk factors, in order to avoid, to the degree possible, all dramatic events or any exploitation of these fears towards the aim of control over people, notably the most fragile and vulnerable.

For a Better Understanding of the Phenomenon

Assure the heightened vigilance on microgroups of an apocalyptic tendency

The French situation is characterized by, as we have seen, on the one hand, the presence of great movements of a religious or New Age inspiration, often of an international dimension, and by the multiplication of small-sized groups at a local level, under diverse forms, a dozen or so members around a charismatic leader using the theme of the Apocalypse in 2012 to better ensure his control over people.

This situation is very preoccupying because, if the dangers to which members of these microgroups are exposed are very real, taking account of the theses in vigor, the activity, that is, the existence of these communities are particularly difficult to discover by the specialized services, taking account of their parcelling out over the national territory and of their functioning in a very discrete way, that is, in complete autarchy.

Miviludes recommends therefore that a particular attention be exercised, primarily regarding this type of group by the mobilization of all the concerned services. The indices of perception of risk presented above can offer useful decrypting tools to better target the present dangers.

Put In Place an Internet Watch

The proliferation of social networks on the Internet has largely facilitated the development of these microgroups, by “democratizing”, via the Web, the access of a greater number of users in this type of relations, sometimes completely virtual, between a pseudo-spiritual guru and eventual adepts lacking recognition or strong sensations.

The example to which Miviludes was recently confronted recalls that this risk is far from being hypothetical.129

The recourse to the Internet has also considerably popularized the discourse or anxiety about the end of the world, by making it available to everyone. Used as an instrument of catharsis for exorcising the fears of each one, the Internet can offer a dreamed of entry way to certain movements or certain practices. The absence of a moderator or of control over the contents of the sites opens the door to spinouts and every kind of excess. This situation is all the more preoccupying that the “immediate” information thus obtained thanks to the Net is received without the necessary distance and without the distributed elements having been first verified or or brought up to date. There is a certain risk that a growing number of people will be seduced by these alternative theories, which can later facilitate the exercise of mental control over them.

Finally, computer modes of communication can be used to unleash a passing to action, of which the devastating effects will be multiplied by the numbers - on the planetary scale - of readers and users of the network thus touched. As Elisabeth Campos reminds us, within Heaven’s Gate130, the adepts spent hours in front of the screen of their computers sending messages via the Internet. It is by this means that the “Red Alert” message will be sent to alert the sympathizers of the moment of “departure”.

Miviludes thus proposes a reflection with the aim of putting into place a veritable computer watch in order to analyze the content of messages and apocalyptic discourses present on the Net in order to measure their danger. This watch must be confided to a specialized service of the police or the gendarmerie which has already an avowed experience in the control of Internet sites.

[Well, that's clear. Yes, they are already spying on us, and, yes, they want more of it.]

Surveillance of the resurgence of old apocalyptic movements

France has not escaped the coming of dramas on its territory (cf. OST, Neo-Phare). The protection of citizens necessitates the assurance that movements that have led in the past, through their anxiety-ridden discourse, to the death of physical person’s should be not in the state of presenting a new threat to society.

[“Physical persons” as opposed to “corporate persons”? This is a great example of the type of language pathological bureaucrats use. Wouldn’t you just write “the death of people”? Doesn’t that better express a genuine concern about death? Never mind that the whole report is bloated with this type of bureaucratese. Just this one point speaks to the heart of the problem. None of the concern in this document is for “people”. It is for power, for control, not of the guru over the adept, but of the State over society.]

This objective passes notably by the verification of the persistence or the renaissance of groups that have disappeared in other forms.

It will be difficultly conceivable that a group having presented at a moment in its history a factor of extreme danger would be the object of no surveillance or at the least some surveillance because of the loss of its leader or the supposed interruption of its activity.

Miviludes thus recommends the surveillance with a particular vigilance of the resurgence of old apocalyptic movements by researching all the possibilities of the reconstitution of the group under other forms.

[Can’t have just a little vigilance. We need a whole lotta vigilance! Cue in Led Zeppelin guitars...]

Seek international Cooperation to foster a permanent watch over risky movements

The case of a Franco-Canadian group having justified the recent intervention of Miviludes131 serves as a reminder: the activity of groups with an apocalyptic tendency, even of a small dimension, can pass over borders, thanks to the use of the vector of computers and the social networks present on the Net.

After the fashion of the work accomplished with the Canadian authorities on the previous case, it would be convenable to put into place international cooperation with the competent services of foreign States, in order to insure a permanent watch over risky movements, permitting in a perennial way the exchange of information between different countries, and thus promoting the conditions of a coordinated action on the international level in case of necessity.

This cooperation would permit without a doubt to better the understanding of the reality of the activity of the large movements of an international dimension, which are often confronted with different choices on policy of activities or expansion in function of the legislation of the States where they are implanted.

This objective, which meets with the preoccupation expressed by Miviludes in its programme of prevention and protection of minors against sectarian offshoots at the European level, can only be attained by a collective consciousness-taking of the inherent dangers of this type of movement or of their discourse and by the manifestation of a strong political will expressed on the international level.

For a better efficiency of preventative action by the public powers

To envision, whenever necessary, a trip by Miviludes to sites that are propitious to sectarian risk

Miviludes, as it has done in the past by visiting certain communities, envisions, as necessary, to go to sites propitious to forms of control over persons linked with messages of an apocalyptic type, in order, by its presence on the spot and its meeting with the actors concerned, notably within the working groups of the Prefecture foreseen by the circular of the Minister of the Interior of February 25, 2008, cited by that of April 2, 2011, to better coordinate the preventative and repressive action of the services of the State.

[April 2, 2011. Curious date considering the problems Laura et al had during 2011... The repressive action of the services of the State, indeed. Of course, to even refer to such a thing is one of those indices Miviludes is so fond of.]

At the date of the appearance of this report, Miviludes has already made two trips to the departments particularly marked by this phenomenon.

Reinforce the activity on this question by the working groups of the Prefectures charged to follow the sectarian phenomenon in France

The coordination on the local level of the action of all the services of the State concerned by the struggle against sectarian offshoots and organized with the specific working groups, that is the regular meeting, under the authority of the Prefect, has been brought up by the last circular of the Ministry of the Interior, Overseas, Territorial Collectivities, and Immigration on April 2, 2011.132

It is within this local scene that the strongest raising of awareness must be made, because these meetings are by definition the place of exchange of information between the different administrations susceptible of having knowledge of the facts of nature that would awaken suspicions and therefore of placing the other services of the State in a measure to act.

It is in fact closest to the realities on the ground, there where the groups are found and there where they exercise their activity that the vigilance of the State must be exercised, and in function of the criteria and the indications of perception of risk presented above certain factors of danger can be identified in a way that permits, if necessary, a preventive action by the public powers.

Miviludes thus proposes that at least one meeting of these working groups be dedicated, in each department during the course of 2011, and in any case before the end of 2012, to the specific problematic of the resurgence of messages of the apocalyptic type with the approach of 2012.

Miviludes insists as well, with the understanding of the local realities, on the irreplaceable work of associations of defense and rejoices, from this point of view, of the orientation defined by the Minister of the Interior in the circular cited above which seeks to reinforce the links with the associations that help victims.133

Put in place a protocol of vigilance with the concerned services of the State

In order to assure the maximum efficiency of preventative action by the public powers in this domain, Miviludes proposes the elaboration of a protocol of vigilance with all the concerned services of the State.

This protocol, concluded at the adapted level, will notably have as its goal:

to optimize, when not an emergency case, the collection of information of movements of an apocalyptic tendency;
to realize in a permanent way the elements thus received;
to evaluate in real time the danger of the content of messages and the doctrines developed;
to plan in advance communal and coordinated actions aiming, in case of necessity, to assure the protection of persons facing imminent danger by the mobilization of all concerned services.

This proposition will be the object of initiatives of Miviludes during the coming weeks.

Watch for an intervention adapted to the particularity of the phenomenon

In case an intervention is made necessary because of the imminence of danger, Miviludes hopes to recall that the action of the public powers must be conducted with the respect of public freedoms and in taking care of a number of precautions which, if they are not followed, could expose the members of the concerned groups to supplementary dangers.The examples of the group The Family (linked to Charles Manson) and of the OST are revealing.134

[We haven’t been giving the footnotes in this version, but this one is deserving of comment...]

[134. In these two cases, the intervention at diverse degrees by the public powers (arrest of members for minor infractions for the first, judicial investigations about the movement for the second) precipitated the passing to the act of assassinations and collective suicide. [Hmmm. So the deaths were in fact the result of too much interference on the private lives of individuals by the State and not the groups themselves??? Amazing that such a gem should be relegated to a footnote, because we know how much the French pride themselves on their intellectual rigor. They must be modest, too.]]

Before any intervention in a crisis situation, it is important for the authorities to know well the system of organization and the beliefs of the group, in order to adapt the envisioned mode of operation. A precipitated or unprepared intervention risks in effect to lead to even more disastrous consequences, provoking a reaction of supplemental violence on the part of the group, directed against the members themselves or against society.

The protocol of vigilance evoked above should further the putting into place of this recommendation.

Conclusion

At the end of this study, Miviludes has no other ambition that to promote the raising of awareness of all the faces of the risks of sectarian offshoots brought on by the resurgence of apocalyptic or Millennarist messages with the approach of 2012.

It is not seeking to dramatize the importance of this risk, nor to stigmatize the contents of this or that doctrine, in respect of the freedom of expression of thought and belief. Conforming to its role of information, it simply calls for a duty of vigilance of everyone in the face of extreme acts which this type of discourse can lead in certain circumstances, exposing a part of our fellow citizens to dangers for their security or their integrity.

It formulates as well the wish that the indications of perception of risks and the paths of reflection that it has elaborated, on the basis of its observations and conclusions, contribute to reinforce the efficiency of preventative action by the public powers in this domain.

The preoccupation that is that of the Interministerial Mission in this study finds without a doubt its best expression in the ideas held in 1999 by father Jacques Trouslard, to whom Miviludes wishes to render homage for having consecrated over thirty years of his life to the defense of victims of movements of a sectarian character:135

“It would be regrettable to believe or let believe that these apocalyptic groups are inoffensive, that they only have a small number of mild lunatics, and to ignore them under the fallacious pretext of respecting the rights of individuals. All the apocalyptic movements may not end with suicide or freely consented collective massacres. And would it be scandalous to say that there is worse for a human than physical death. There is nothing worse for a man that the taking away of his freedom.”

 

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Appendix to the Central Dossier

Testimony of Jean-François Ottan, president of the ADFI of Hérault, on the dangers of the New Age

In the multitude of training sessions, seminars, and formations linked to the new world prophesied for 2012, the potential client, if he is not able to be aware of the manipulation of which he is object, will invest large sums of money for a finality with no contract [and with imaginary concepts of vapor]: a search for happiness, access to knowledge positioning him among the “elites or those who will be saved”, and this will become for him an objective impossible to circumvent that risks to precipitate social, familial, and psychological loss.

The content of the proposed training sessions vary, but their number is plethoric. The subjects can concern either uniquely or together personal development, holistic therapies, development of human potential, the management of stress in the face of the Apocalypse, global health, access to high mystical and occult knowledge, ecology, psychospirituality, esoterism, briefly, an impressive panel.

Rapidly, the new ager will express himself in the registers of the apocalyptic type or other which will surprise his entourage. Rapidly, an incomprehension will install itself between him and his family, then rendering difficultly possible all forms of dialogue between the postulant to initiation and the profane linked to his family, the more so as the leader invites his client-adepts to divulge nothing of their activities or acquired knowledge, unless it is to find new clients...

In the New Age, a dominant [trend] comes from Orientalism. It is that of energy which is predominant in the proposed holistic solutions. For the new ager, “everything is energy on this Earth; everything is explained by the play of energies which is THE miracle solution for everything”.

General energetic disequilibriums (climate change, natural catastrophes) are thus responsible for every evil: the sickness of society, the planet, the ills of man and woman, too.

Directly issued from often perverted Oriental concepts, that is, ancient methods taken from a millennarist or apocalyptic discourse, the concept of energy is, in the New Age, served with all sorts of sauces.

This energy which regulates the equilibrium of the planet can be transmitted by magnetic passes, recharging the person with energy, by interposed photo, for example136 ... These energies are of a cosmic or terrestrial order, they are contained in atmospheric space. If the possessors of positive energies concentrate and meditate together, it will even be possible to establish on this Earth a durable peace that will generate the solution to all conflicts.

According to these ideas: ‘To prevent any problematic, it suffices to be energetically well and if your equilibrium is satisfied, you will have no health problems and you will be saved from the coming Apocalypse and be ready for the changing of the period.’

And as energy is that which permits spiritual elevation, it is not possible to hope to progress next to people who are not initiated, filled with bad energy, negative energy that pollutes the entourage.

This notion of bad energy is thus at the origin of problems meet with by families that do not understand the reason for the cutting of relations with those near to them.

Bad energy is presented as an obstacle to elevation and above all they engender isolation of the victim who will from then on have only a single vision of the world, one solution to give meaning to his life, a unique meaning “inspired” by the guru, the visionary, the conference speaker, the preacher... with the same meaning for all the adepts of the same group.

[Sounds like the brainwashing that goes on in church, school, the newspapers, the TV, films, etc. But that would be showing my antagonism to society which puts me squarely in the camp of the ‘sectarian offshoots’.]

Today, New Age ideology progresses and citizens have largely lowered their defenses and have left their critical spirit on the side of the road...

The volunteers of the associations for the defense know well that these movements which claim to be non-violent, disinterested, and which give as their objective bringing peace to human persons [Are there any other kinds of ‘persons’? Oh, yes. Coprorations. And when I think of bringing peace to a ‘person’, I immediately have to qualify that in my head by saying, “Ah, yes, a human person, not a corporate person...” Don’t you?] and the coming of a new era for man and society, can be however generators of family conflicts, social rupture, that is, true dramas as soon as some play at “the sorcerer's apprentice” and “false Messiahs” in the face of the announced imminence of the end of the world.

Fear and guilt play an essential role in the adhesion of the future adepts. The world is presented in such a way as there is no other way out than that of adhering to the ideas and teachings proposed by these groups and their ‘prophets’, with risks of clear offshoots.

The advances of science are negated or denied to the profit of discoveries that are most often not evaluated, false, or useless. Ancestral customs and millennarist fears are preferred to scientific advances and to the religious doctrines of the monotheist Churches. [Because, of course, Buddhism, for example, isn’t in the same league as Christianity and Judaism when it comes to Truth, right?] And when the teachings do not flow from ancestral methods, the New Age invents them, pure and simply, outside of any control.

Manipulation will do the rest. It suffices for the leader to present himself as the “holder of an infallible understanding of divine knowledge on the end of the world” and for example to say he is persecuted. The adept will feel flattered to be chosen as the receiver of this knowledge (and to be elected to be saved), it being understood that he must only communicate with the converted or potential future converts.

This feeling of belonging to a group of the elected will permit the leader to render each of his adepts co-responsible of the success or failure of all. Living in the group’s isolation and autarchy, the profane world becomes the unfrequentable “enemy”. The opposition to the principals, values, morals, and organization of our societies becomes systematic.

[You mean the principals, values, morals, and organization of a society controlled by pathological leaders? Well, yeah...]

If the New Age was only a business, if it only sometimes flirted with swindles, if it had no consequence on the life of the family, if they didn’t automatically try to disqualify republican organizations by a profound destabilization of the rules and values of our democracies, it would only be another fact of society, a sort of permanent mode by which some honest citizens, in good faith and well thought, wished to adhere, it would not be preoccupying.

[Wow. Never realized the New Age was undermining the very foundations of the Republic! Of the democracies... of those societies dominated by a small clique, what the Occupy Movements call the 1%. I always thought it was simply another way for the 1% to keep people who had started to ask questions in toe.]

But the New Age is not so inoffensive and can develop a goodly number of offshoots... By manipulation and by affirming ‘prophetic, apocalyptic, futurist and magic thought’, it rocks thousands of people by making them believe in the imminence of the end of the world and the coming of a new era... imagined.


Testimony of Myriam Declair, former adept of the group The Family (ex-Children of God)

The group “Children of God” was known above all during the years 1970-75. The association of the same name was dissolved December 29, 1978. But the group continued its activities under the name of Family of Love, The Family, or the International family.137

(Miviludes) In what form and particular language did these apocalyptic and millennarist doctrines take shape in the life and philosophy of your group?

They announced apocalyptic events like in 1973, by the prophecy of the guru (David Brandt-Berg) concerning the comet Kohoutek that was supposed to graze the Earth and cause the destruction of America. Most of the adepts had already fled the USA and located to Europe at this moment. I remember that I wrote on the blackboard of my school a countdown the days before the cataclsym (D-40, D-39, D-38...). I was still young and I wanted to warn the whole world so that they would be informed and alerted. I was also persuaded that California would fall into the sea.

I remember as well that after 1974 and the “non-destruction of the USA”, they spoke of the return of Jesus Christ foreseen for 1993. He would return and then reign for a thousand years on Earth. We would reign with him and judge the inhabitants of the Earth at his sides. In view of these apocalyptic events, we had to make purchases for survival, of food and to stock material. We also had a “survival kit” that permitted us to flee to the mountains and the hills if war broke out in the city or if another cataclysm come to our region.

As the destruction of the USA did not happen in 1974 and as Jesus Christ did not return to Earth in 1993, our ‘prophet’ explained to us that God had given a second chance to humanity, and it was thanks to our prayers that the Lord did not yet want the Apocalypse on Earth. It was in his mercy that he retarded the return of Jesus Christ”.

Our leader interpreted certain physical and astrological events as the accomplishments of the prophecies of the Bible, and he demanded we follow his instructions to the letter. If he said: flee to the east, we fled. The subject of the group on the end of the world instilled in us fear [...]. We must save the planet and the maximum number of people. We were not afraid of the Apocalypse in itself; what we feared the most was to not save the maximum number of people. Nothing counted more than that. We had to leave our personal studies, our education; the only thing that counted in our days was the number of people ‘converted and saved’ and to know what we would eat to survive another day...

In the group, we were about two thousand full-time members. We spoke of a ‘group of 144,000 saved’ but we were far from it. However, we often sang this ritornello: ‘We are the 144,000. who can there be other than us?’

At what moment did this apocalyptic notion appear in the group?

A short time after the birth of the movement. When I arrived in the community in 1972, they talked to me of these apocalyptic theories right away. It was something important for the group. Our leader spoke of “earthquakes, of the moon that would change into blood, of the two-thirds of the Earth that would be burned”... they told us that at the time when these prophecies had been written it was difficult for people to imagine how two-thirds of the Earth could be burned but with the coming of the atomic era it was easier in our days to imagine such a cataclysm. For us, God would judge the world for its sins: violence, drugs, urbanization, the destruction of the environment, pollution, the large cities and metropolises which for our chief did not accord with the plan of God for humanity.

In 1994, after the death of David Berg, The Family spoke a lot less of the apocalypse and more of the “Kingdom of God arriving on Earth”. We spoke less of earthquakes and there were less frightening things than before: we spoke more of UFOs and flying saucer theories. The movement cited also the “new world”, a term which approaches the philosophy of the New Age. For them, flying saucers are celestial creatures. There are many illustrations, images and designs that appeared in the publications of the group, representing people who changed bodies, who flew, like Angels...

In 1989 the group had again predicted the return of Jesus, but this time for the end of the twentieth century. It did not happen again.

What was the importance of the apocalyptic and millennarist theses in your personal and professional life, and in your family?

This discourse and doctrines precluded the rest. We were cut off from the world. We lived in isolation. We had to lived closed in on ourselves in the community, without contact with the outside except to go find people and proselytize to convert and save them. We rarely read the newspapers, we were bathed in the Manichaean doctrines of the chief. We always lived in urgency, the worry of not doing enough was permanent for most of the adepts. We were constantly under pressure. There was also the notion that all the suffering lived on Earth was nothing compared to the “coming glory”, that is to say the moment when God “would erase all the tears from our eyes and when the Earth would be renewed into a paradise where it would be good to live”. Why bother caring for an illness if in paradise we would have a new body? Why pursue a career or study if the Apocalypse was so imminent?

Since 2010, the group having reviewed its doctrines at this level, it is now permitted for the adepts to follow a training curse or to look for work in society. Their current attitude can be resumed thusly: “We have prophesied the coming of the Millennium on earth and as it is late, we do not know when it will happen, therefore we can nevertheless take an interest in the surrounding world and try to be a part of it, in case Jesus waits to return.”

Did you have long term projects in the group?

No. Absolutely not, at the time I was there it was impossible to have them. There was a chope of lead above and around us. I understood later that we had around us a behavioral hold, a cognitive hold, and an emotional hold from which I could not remove myself at the time. I was still young and malleable and believed all that I was told. I was in submission and desired to be obedient to my superiors because I thought that by obeying them I was really serving god. I thought I was part of an elite and had been chosen by god to bring salvation to a world in perdition.

Why, according to you, must we protect ourselves against the discourse and the apocalyptic or Millennarist groups like that which you knew?

The danger with these groups or with their discourse is to totally belief the words of the guru. We, we were totally under his control and we blindly obeyed him. For my part, I had complete confidence in him and I gave him everything. In this situation, we lose all autonomy, all judgement, all freedom of thought and free will. We believe everything we are told and are manipulated... often without being aware of it, and one day, we wake up and become aware that we have acted contrary to our own convictions or to our personal conscience.

What message would you like to pass on?

In my opinion, in order to warn of the “sectarian trap”, we must act on the level of the education of the young. As we have done for civic education, training and advice for sexuality, rape, Aids. We must teach the youth to beware of these groups and their discourse. We must inform the youth by giving them the possibility of reading works on this theme in school libraries and documentation centers, which is not always the case. Because the more they read and think by themselves, more they will be armed and protected against offshoots of this type.

Does this apocalyptic and Millennarist discourse still mark your life?

I still believe in the truth and the authenticity of the Bible, but the ideas of the ‘cult’ do not influence me today. However, at certain moments, I am surprised to be sometimes affected in my psychological functioning. For example, sometimes I panic, react in urgency... when I could take things more calmly, have less fear... This pressure, this urgency, I still feel at certain moments; it has formed my character and my personality even if it is almost thirty years since I have been out.



Analysis of Sonya Jougla, clinical psychologist, specialized in the taking charge of victims of sectarian control

“Apocalyptic Groups”

Apocalyptic movements announcing the end of the world:
- certain groups foresee a precise date of the end of the world (or several dates each time moved back);
others foresee the end of the world without giving an exact date;
others speak of the coming of extraterrestrials, of the Golden Age, the Age of Aquarius, and prepare themselves without giving a fixed date;
others again, even if they do not make any predictions, could tip from one day to the next, without any presentiment, into an apocalyptic vision of their future and into a passing to action.

The utopia that the end of the world represents, a utopia imposed by the guru, is the motor of collective action of the group. The utopia saves the adepts from the suffering of hoping without certainty; the utopia calms their existential anxieties.

The specificity of apocalyptic groups compared to other groups:

The apocalypse facilitates recruitment:
- the threat of the apocalypse permits the recruiting of new adepts in an accelerated manner;
- the fear of apocalyptic events and the assurance of divine protection renders this appeal very efficient.

The threat of the Apocalypse facilitates and amplifies sectarian control:
the all-power of the guru is multiplied through fear;
the adepts have more difficulty in quitting the sectarian group when the end of the world is announced. They know that, outside of the group, there is no salvation;
They put themselves blindly under the protection of the guru;
The cohesion and closing off of the group is greater;
aberrant and utopian beliefs proliferate;
the promise of being part of an elite and of saving humanity seduces those who do not feel they are recognized for their real value;
The group becomes a solution and a refuge for all those who feel misunderstood, badly integrated into society.

Apocalyptic groups are more alienating and more manipulative than the others:
They are more hysterical, in more fantasist, more exacerbated;
They represent the biggest danger for society;
We find more passing into action:
More suicides;
More programmed transits
Growth in the power of the irrational

The adepts present pathologies aggravated by the imminence of events. These pathologies will be different according to three distinct periods:
The period preceding the announced Apocalypse;
The precise date of the Apocalypse;
The period succeeding the announced Apocalypse.

The Meaning of Catastrophes

All catastrophes, natural or other, represent a warning of the “invisible masters”. They sign a divine punishment to make man hear that he must change his behavior and return to the straight path.

But man has not heard the message. The world gets worse and worse and man perseveres in his meanness and his mediocrity. It is for that that we can notice a major acceleration of the process of the end and that we arrive at the end of the cycle. These are the catastrophes that announce the beginning of the end of the world.

Catastrophes are the occasion for groups to experiment with their doctrine:
Putting into application of their beliefs;
Catastrophes give a meaning to the reality of the doctrine: they justify the doctrine;
Catastrophes are on a small scale what the end of the world will be on a large scale;
Catastrophes being a divine punishment, it is the proof that the world is bad and that only the guru holds the truth of redemption.

The Meaning of the Apocalypse

An implacable logic that we find in all apocalyptic groups:
Society and the world are bad, enclosed in matter, in the material;
We (the group), we are good, invested with a “divine mission” by “superior entities”;
Our mission is to save the world;
Only the elect will be saved. The impious, the miscreants will be annihilated;
The groups await this end of the world to create with the elect a future utopian world, a sort of paradise on Earth, and will create a new human race.

Study of the Psychological Process Among the adepts of apocalyptic and/or Millennarist groups

Antéapocalyptic Period

This period develops in the adepts:
A deliriant conviction heightened by fear;
An infantilization of all by the guru;
Omnipresent denunciations between the adepts;
A proselytism at its apogee: the more we succeed in converting new adepts, the more people we save;
But also the more we augment for us the narcissistic certitude to be part of the elect.

This deliriant conviction, this absolute certainty that comes from a “pathological belief” is not accessible to critical judgement or the demonstration of evidence that it is false.

Intensive Preparation

It is a stand-bye period for the adept. While awaiting that events manifest themselves:
one part immobility;
another part, a frenetic material preparation.

The announcement of events provokes within the adept:
fear (fear of dying, but also of not being up to par);
guilt (invasion of negative entities, tests);
reinforced pressure (by the guru and all the members of the sect);
an intensive inner stress, continual and exponential;
panic attacks (anxiety).

The announcement of the prophecy necessitates an intensive preparation at all levels

Preparation within the sect

The guru will intensify his interpretive delirium, his injunctions and sanctions. The accumulation of draconian orders, linked to the imminence of the events maintains the adepts in an intensified state of subordination and subjugation. New inopportune exercises provoke a response within the adept of a frenetic behavior of preparation (always more):
The adept engages in an inner battle against his own doubts and a battle against “malignant infections” of negative entities;
He is subject to a certain number of fears that are with difficulty surmounted (fear of not being good enough, fear of disappointing, fear of failing with the mission of the group).

These new behaviors will engender within the adept a certain number of pathologies:
An ‘extreme purification’ which will engender “anorexia by purity”;
Obsessional neuroses linked to the multiplication of incessant supplementary rituals;
Interpretive deliriums linked to the reading of everything (harmless things of daily life) as being a sign from heaven;
mystical deliriums linked to the mission to which the adept feels invested (more targeted and more frequent deliriums than without the cataclysms).

The announcement of events gives a heightened power to the guru:
he alone holds the power to pick the elect, thus those who will survive;
he alone is the “pure channel” and holds the invisible orders and information
which reinforces the allegiance and the thankfulness of the adept.

For another part, this introduces within the adept:
The certainty of finally being recognized (by the invisible, by the guru);
Of being part of the elite;
He awaits the valorization of his premonitions, his extrasensory perceptions, of his hallucinations called mediumistic;
He feels in competition with and superior to “ordinary folks”, not initiated;
He has the impression of finally existing in the eyes of society;
The adept can develop “survivor’s syndrome” (guilt of leaving to die people who are dear even before the date of the events);
and sometimes the feeling of superiority, a desire of revenge, of vengeance with thoughts of the type: “It is good for the others.”

Preparation Outside of the Movement

For the adept, the only thing that counts is the mission; nothing is more important. The adepts will carry out a certain number of acts that are prejudicial to them, ordered by the guru:
sale of possessions (that which, after the words of the guru, will be “under water”);
purchase of other goods, of land, of land high up (sheltered from floods and earthquakes); construction of bunkers, of subterranean shelters;
Taking on loans to recuperate the maximum money in the minimum amount of time;
Theft is possible (it isn’t theft if it is for the divine mission of the group);
adepts don’t pay their taxes (useless, it’s the end of the world);
purchase of gold bullion (easiest to bury, won’t rot and always has its value);
stocking of material (survival kits, food, cars).

At the Predicted Date

The waiting time of the event freezes all vital signs:
A pressure of every moment is continuously maintained (for purification): little sleep, no intimacy, little food;
Not emotional contact between the adepts, no dialogue;
Only one occupation and preoccupation: to be ready;
The tension is exponential until D-Day: extreme point;
Fear is omnipresent but often masked by excessive exaltation;
Fear of this imminent confrontation with death;
The adepts have no further possibility to take initiatives, to advance, to do any projects;
No possibility of escape and of escaping the prophecies;
They remain fixed in expectation, on the alert.

This waiting for events engenders in the sect a group pathology:
The group lives in an “autistic autarchy” (no contact with the exterior);
Everyone watches everyone else;
All are infantilized: they put everything in the hands of heaven, the guide, the guru;
All the adepts await to act on the orders that are given in small doses.

Traumatism linked to this waiting:
The adepts present a “paralysis of thought”;
Their state of consciousness is altered;
They have lost their capacity for reflection, have no free will;
The Manichaean reasoning of the guru becomes the logic of all;
They lose the capacity to control their emotions;
Fear engenders panic attacks (anxiety);
While waiting they are sometimes in a state of a stroke and always in a state of immobility.

These adepts tip into psychosis with:
“hallucinatory paroxysms” (the highest degree, the height of delirium);
megalomaniac delirium (election and identification with the divine);
systematic mystical delirium;
epileptic fits;
deliriums of influence (they are made to think, speak, act).

The group can tip into:
States of collective trance during the ceremonies, rituals;
Group paranoia;
Collective hysteria.

Post-apocalyptic Period

The failure of the prophecy engenders in the adept:
The disappointment of not accomplishing their mission;
Guilt at having failed in the mission;
Guilt at not being sufficiently “evolved”, of not being up to the mark of the expectations of the “invisible” and of the guru;
The supremacy of negative entities (Evil won out over good);
Total responsibility for the failure;
New anxiety over the next dates;
But also relief (unavowed) that that... did not come to pass;
Appearance of cognitive dissonance (contradiction, discordance).

Traumatism of emptiness

The adepts, no longer having their habitual benchmarks of constraining and enclosing formatting that they submitted to before the events will present a new anxiety: that of being “thrown into the void” (their own words). Their life has been upset in a gaping and unknown nothingness unknown until then. They find themselves confronted with new existential problems:
loss of meaning;
loss of aim;
loss of protection by the “invisible masters”;
anxiety of emptiness;
a situation of failure;
the incapacity of taking up again the mediocre and banal life of an ordinary person (the life they had before entering the group);
Overwhelming doubt (the guru may have made a mistake).

Generally the guru will very quickly make an interpretive reading of what has happened and what didn’t happen, to bring the adepts back in hand. He strikes various truths, explaining the reason the events didn’t happen.

According to the gurus, the reasons for the failure can depend on:
bad preparation by the adepts who alone are responsible for the failure;
the level of vibration of the adepts was insufficient;
the invisible had thus decided....;
we are not sufficiently evolved to understand the reason of the failure;
It is a supplementary test by the “invisible masters” to reveal those who doubt;
the invisible offered to the adepts the possibility to better prepare themselves in the future (it was a sort of rehearsal for the future);
The adept often develops a “Stockholm syndrome” towards the guru (he defends him, loves him, and cannot put him in question);

Sometimes the failure of events can also serve as an electroshock and can permit the adept to begin to doubt and open his eyes.

The adept must then assume:

The emotional consequences: assume the rupture with his family: wife or husband, children, parents.
The financial consequences:
assume the consequences of loans and swindles;
look for work;
find an apartment.

•Omnipresent scattered feelings:
ridicule;
shame;
humiliation;
failure.

He must also manage the material:
the gigantic stock of food becomes damaged and uneatable;
all the unused and unusable material (survival material, material to construct protection, bunkers, etc.

This material which appears in an indisputable way as aberrant and inadequate after the prophecy can unleash within the adept a conscience-taking, a leap towards good sense and critical spirit and can permit him to begin to introduce the beginning of doubt in his mind: a small fault line in the edifice of control...

The Traumatism of the Major Adepts

The traumatism is not the shock but the effects of the shock.

In the period following the prophecy of the events of the end of the world a whole series of different pathologies will develop according to the profile and the personality of each adept:
post-traumatic neuroses;
suicides (corresponding to avoiding unassumable situations or the result of self-aggressive conduct);
moments of delirium;
psychoses;
states of being frozen or of turning in on oneself;
states of annihilation;
profusion of deliriums;
nightmares or reliving the events;
a disorganization of the symbolic process;
blockage to free or imaginative thought;
desocialization;
a “asylism” holding to prison psychoses related to insulation and the loss of contact with reality, (Ganser’s Syndrome138);
disaffiliation;
interiorized presence of the terrifying guru;
pathological dependence;
cognitive deficiencies;
panic attacks linked to sanctions, the last judgement;
“purity anorexia”;
Obsessive-compulsive disorders;
loss of all critical spirit;
substitution of automatic behavior rather than voluntary activity;
dissociative states;
hallucinatory deliriums.

Traumatism in Children

They also present pathologies specifically linked to announced end of the world traumatisms, bringing on even worse trauma:
nightmares;
nighttime terror;
panic attacks;
slowing of development;
incapacity of self-defense;
pathological dependence, malleability;
lack of self confidence (they only have confidence in the words of the guru);
a crushing ideal (especially when the child was designated a “cosmic child” or was destined for a particular mission);
self-punishing tendencies;
“superego 149” traits, linked to idealistic parental or guru positions;
exacerbated guilt (linked to carrying the weight of the failure);
personality disorders;
states of being frozen or of turning in on oneself;
lack of spontaneity;
no emergence of creativity (they only draw stereotyped or repetitive drawings, for example);
they diabolize everything outside of the group;

Prevention

The Importance of Predictions

No matter the sectarian group, it is always important to take seriously the apocalyptic predictions by a guru or by a member of the group.

Even if some groups do not make any prediction, they can nevertheless tip from one day to the next, without any forewarning, into an apocalyptic vision of their future and a passing into criminal action.

Not assuming the fact of the failure of his sectarian project, the guru could, for example, hurry (with no forewarning) into the desire to be done with it all in “an honorable way”, for him, by leading his disciples to an improvised but irreversible transit.

Even if the apocalyptic project was not an initial founding component of its doctrine, a movement can nevertheless tip into a lethal project.

Apocalyptic tipping is not necessarily linked to a precise date. But to examine only the lethal and criminal risk amounts to ignoring the social noxiousness of the sectarian group and its principal characteristic: control.

All apocalyptic predictions should be taken seriously because they can all finish by:
passing into action;
reprehensible acts;
collective suicide under this control;
or individual suicides.

Precursor Signs

It is possible to discover some precursor signs that merit taking seriously all predictions emerging from the doctrine of a sectarian group, the words of the guru or those of the adepts.
exaltation, overexcitement, individual or collective frenzy;
paroxystic amplification of all the symptoms of sectarian isolation;
autarchic life; often with everyone assembled in a lone isolated house;
adepts barricade themselves inside, closing the shutters;
refusal of all contact withe the exterior (family, friends, postman, doctor...);
definitive rupture with the professional milieu and the family milieu;
they commit illegal acts;
they empty their bank accounts;
they do financial diversions;
the preparations are exalted and fanatical:
compulsive and irrational purchases;
excessive food reserves;
immoderate purchases of building materials;
construction of “bunkers”;
purchase of survival materials;
“survivalism”.

 

[Laura]

Very important to read, in conjunction with the translation of this monstrous "report", Joe's piece: Big Agri-Business, Big Pharma, Arms Trafficking, Suicide Cults and MIVILUDES - The Truth Behind France's Cult-Hunting Policies Exposed

and: Basic Human Rights Violations in 21st Century France

Dark Ages and Inquisitions, Ancient and Modern - Or Why Things are Such a Mess On Our Planet and Humanity is on the Verge of Extinction

Chaos and Consent: The Logistics of the One World Government

The Triumphant Beast

 

[Niall]

Everyone check this out - it's hilarious!

'The Adventures of Miviludes'

http://vimeo.com/37920430

 

[Gawan]

Everyone check this out - it's hilarious!

'The Adventures of Miviludes'

http://vimeo.com/37920430

It was really great and a good laugh too!

 

[bngenoh]

Excellent Kniall,

It shows how utterly ridiculous this whole thing is clear as day. The situation is so ridiculously pathetic it's sad.

 

[Bo]

Everyone check this out - it's hilarious!

'The Adventures of Miviludes'

http://vimeo.com/37920430

LOL nice find Kniall

 

[Ollie]

Everyone check this out - it's hilarious!

'The Adventures of Miviludes'

http://vimeo.com/37920430

Great stuff, a great laugh too.

 

[Redrock12]

Everyone check this out - it's hilarious!

'The Adventures of Miviludes'

http://vimeo.com/37920430

Great stuff, a great laugh too.

Funny beyond belief. But so appropriate.

 

[Laura]

I reckon we ought to share that one around! Hilarious!

 

[Richs]

Everyone check this out - it's hilarious!

'The Adventures of Miviludes'

http://vimeo.com/37920430

Thanks Kniall!

 

[Niall]

O lord, now Sott has it up!!

https://www.sott.net/articles/show/242535-The-Adventures-of-Miviludes