Manson Family
Was the Manson family a religious cult? In this essay, the author will prove this by examining the Manson Family as a political cult and the leaders use of mind control love bombing, the role of Manson as a group leader and his role within the group, and teachings and/or beliefs of the group. While the group did not in the opinion of this author exhibit all of the aspects of religious cultism, it is certainly very much in the genre.
Its ties to and emergence from the sixties counterculture blurs this a bit, it is a cult nonetheless. As we will see in the body of this essay, a number of salient facts stand out that define a cult. One is a dominating personality. Secondly, secret and esoteric beliefs and liturgies, usually at the extreme edge of human behaviors. Finally, mind control use and tactics are endemic.
What is a good definition of a cult? Usually one needs to define cults by looking at case studies of past cults, ones in which Manson's group definitely falls. The following definition is good and covers all of our bases:
…a cult is known as an undesirable group of people characterised by outlandish religious beliefs, involved in depraved activities and are led by a charismatic but dangerous leader (Olson, 2006). This public understanding of cults is the result of a number of notorious cases in history that have involved mass suicide, murder, sexual abuse and violence. Although these examples are useful in their own respect they are not an accurate representation of cults as a whole. The extreme behaviour exhibited by groups such as Heavens Gate, Davidson and Solar Temple (Bohm, 2001), have elevated any group labelled as a cult into something inherently evil. These ideas are not useful in any empirical body of work as they mystify the existence of...
This would be true although no evidence at the crime scene would connect Manson physically to the murders. The pronunciation at the crime scenes of his motive and philosophy would provide a clear line leading directly to Manson though. As the courts attempted to gain testimony against him through the young women that he'd brainwashed, the power which he levied over all of his followers became apparent. In one
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