The word "sect" has long become a household word, acquiring a religious and negative connotation. At the same time, it is still not taken seriously enough and does not provide an understanding of how to save a person who has been drawn into a sect.
Sect concept
We must speak about sects from at least three positions: religious, commercial, and social. The religious position boils down to the fact that a certain imperfect, openly flawed religious idea is presented and perceived as truth. Since sects live by a set of fixed ideologies, everything outside their sphere is perceived exclusively as a parallel world. Sects live a self-contained doctrine for this to work, the heads of sects limit as much as possible the communication of their "spiritual" students with the outside world. Instead, they are doing their utmost to create a feeling among the neophytes that they were admitted to something chosen, closed, opposed to the rest of the world, they grow up dependence, inertness, and closedness in them. It should be noted that a sect is almost always a commercial or profitable enterprise at the top. It does not always come down to money, sexual violence or slave power, in some cases, the benefit may be indirect - security, power, the creation of a block of like-minded people.
