DEBARSHI DASGUPTA, Outlook India

•  Systematically create a sense of powerlessness in the person

•  Control the physical and social environment; control the devotee’s time

•  Keep the person unaware of what’s going on & how he is being changed step by step

•  Manipulate rewards, punishments and experiences to check the expression of the person’s former identity

•  Manipulate rewards, punishments and experiences to promote conformity

•  Set a closed system of logic, a hierarchy permitting no feedback, with top-down orders


Asaram Bapu after his arrest for sexual assault on a minor