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/^t/The group wants its members to break up relations with their families and friends because they may disturb the development of the new personality. The leaders engraft in their followers an idea that relatives and friends do not know real God and that their lives are evil. At first, the sect members are told to restrain from talking to their parents and to keep out from their friends. Then they move to their new family's place. They are afraid to escape from the sect for the fact that they are threatened there with tortures of both body and soul. This makes the sect disciples totally dependent on the guru and his/her helpers.