The loss of idealism can be a difficult and painful experience. It can feel like a part of you has died, and it can be hard to know how to move on.
Episode 5: Cults Cult Mediation Specialist Patrick Ryan
Cult Mediation Specialist Patrick Ryan discusses how cults operate and how to intervene when someone needs help.
Transcendental Meditation, Cults and Exiting: Interview with Patrick Ryan from Cult 101
Patrick Ryan found himself deeply involved in Transcendental Meditation during the 1970s until he started to believe he was part of a harmful group. He is now a cult mediation specialist, otherwise known as exit counselling. He is also the head of TM-EX, an organization of ex-members of Transcendental Meditation and has worked extensively with The International Cultic Studies Association.
Lifetime Achievement Award
July 2011Barcelona, SpainMichael LangonePatrick Ryan has many talents. He won a writing award for contributions to his high school newspaper.He ran a million dollar business. He has a passion for computers, and his skills in this area areimpressive. He is a born entrepreneur.He should be rich. But he isn’t. Why?When…
Ethical Standards for Thought Reform Consultants
Cult Intervention, deprogramming, exit counseling RATIONALE (History of cult interventions, deprogramming, exit counseling) Thought reform includes the use of highly manipulative methods and processes such as undue social and psychological influence, behavioral modification techniques, disguised hypnosis and trance induction, and other physiological and psychological influence techniques. These techniques are used in…
Essay: Coping With Trance States
Patrick Ryan Cult Observer, Volume 10, No. 3, 1993 The following, which first appeared in the Summer 1992 issue of TM EX NEWS, was written by former followers of the Transcendental Meditation (TM) guru Maharishi Mahesh Yogi. TM-EX is a nonprofit, educational and research organization. Trance states, derealization, dissociation, spaceyness.…
From Deprogramming to Thought Reform Consultation
Gradually, not only did the understanding of the process of thought reform grow, but the voluntary approach of exit counseling proved to be effective — and less risky psychologically as well as legally.