[rayliotta]

Originally Posted by zeek

I was being facetious with "sub-rational" but Lee et al used a variety of techniques to appeal to people psychologically rather than to appeal to reason. These techniques included “milieu control,” “loading the language,” “demand for purity,” “confession,”“mystical manipulation,” “doctrine over person,” “sacred science” and “dispensing of existence” as described by Lifton. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Jay_Lifton

There are surely people who have attended one or two LC meetings, in various places over the years, and left saying that the meeting made them uncomfortable, or that there was something strange about it that they just couldn't put their finger on. Folks who have this reaction from the get-go usually don't come back, methinks.

Maybe this is the kind of thing zeek and awareness are trying to find an adequate term for? It's hard to put our finger on how to describe something that's hard to put our finger on, eh?