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/^t/There is a three-stage psychological technique of personality alteration used by sect gurus. The first stage is referred to a so called love bombing. A sensitive person who feels lost in this world, or somebody who needs a material support is beset and cared after by the group members. The sect can offer e.g. food, clothes, or a ticket to the cinema. Then, the person moves to his/her new family's place and takes part in various rituals, lectures, and discussions led by a guru who often is an experienced psychologist. As a result, the person commences to perceive the world in a completely different light than before joining the sect. Furthermore, he/she is forced to obey rigid rules of the sect and to accept its ideology as an absolute truth, which is destructive for human personality. The third stage means "reconstruction": they make a voluntary slave out of the person who can be abused by everyone. Undoubtedly, these techniques are harmful for a human being.