On Post-Trauma and the Search for Religious Meaning – Lecturer Dr. Gabi Zohar

On Post-Trauma and the Search for Religious Meaning What are the main factors influencing people to join coercive spiritual and religious frameworks? New groups, fed by people who have experienced trauma and are searching for psychological and spiritual meaning in their lives. The supposedly "healing" process leads to complete enslavement to a guru - who dictates their behavior. Why are parents willing to sacrifice their children to the cult's Moloch? Why do young people turn their backs on their families and choose parental alienation at the instruction of the cult leader? And is there a way out of authoritarian groups? Lecturer: Dr. Gabi Zohar, social worker with clinical specialization and psychotherapist. Researcher of the mystical cult phenomenon, therapist for cult victims and authoritarian group members. From a lecture series of 4 sessions: "The Simulated Reality of Spiritual Groups, Authoritarian Groups and Mystical Cults"