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The Cult Awareness and Information Centre is an organization that provides resources and information on groups they identify as cults and other controversial groups, based in Brisbane, Australia. The organization was founded by Jan Groenveld, an exit counselor with a background in psychology. A motto (from Italian) is a phrase or a short list of words meant formally to describe the general motivation or intention of an entity, social group, or organization. ... The date of establishment or date of founding of an institution is the date on which that institution chooses to claim as its starting point. ... It has been suggested that this article or section be merged with deprogramming. ... This article is becoming very long. ... Brisbane (pronounced ) is the capital and most populous city of the Australian state of Queensland, as well as the third largest city in Australia, with a greater metropolitan population of 1. ... Image File history File links This is a lossless scalable vector image. ... An official language is a language that is given a unique legal status in the countries, states, and other territories. ... Australian English (AuE) is the form of the English language used in Australia. ... Jan Groenveld (1945 - October 22, 2002) was a former member of the Mormon Church and the Jehovahs Witnesses[1]. She spent a total of fifteen years in these organizations before leaving them in 1975[1][2]. After her negative experiences in these organizations, she resolved to make more information... A website (or Web site) is a collection of Web pages, images, videos and other digital assets and hosted on a particular domain or subdomain on the World Wide Web. ... This article is becoming very long. ... Brisbane (pronounced ) is the capital and most populous city of the Australian state of Queensland, as well as the third largest city in Australia, with a greater metropolitan population of 1. ... Jan Groenveld (1945 - October 22, 2002) was a former member of the Mormon Church and the Jehovahs Witnesses[1]. She spent a total of fifteen years in these organizations before leaving them in 1975[1][2]. After her negative experiences in these organizations, she resolved to make more information... Exit counseling, also termed strategic intervention therapy, cult intervention or thought reform consultation is an intervention designed to persuade an individual to leave a cult. ... Psychology (from Greek: ÏˆÏ…Ï‡Î®, psukhÄ“, spirit, soul; and Î»ÏŒÎ³Î¿Ï‚, logos, knowledge) is an academic/ applied discipline involving the scientific study of mental processes and behavior. ...

History

The Cult Awareness and Information Centre was founded in 1990, by Jan Groenveld, based in Brisbane, Australia.^[1]^[2]^[3]^[4] The Cult Awareness and Information Centre website was launched in 1991.^[5] Jan Groenveld (1945 - October 22, 2002) was a former member of the Mormon Church and the Jehovahs Witnesses[1]. She spent a total of fifteen years in these organizations before leaving them in 1975[1][2]. After her negative experiences in these organizations, she resolved to make more information... Brisbane (pronounced ) is the capital and most populous city of the Australian state of Queensland, as well as the third largest city in Australia, with a greater metropolitan population of 1. ... 1991 (MCMXCI) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Due to Groenveld's reputation, the organization soon became listed as a resource in secondary publications on the subject matter. Cult Awareness and Information Centre was listed along with Groenveld, as a resource in Marlene Winell's book, Leaving the Fold.^[6] In September 1993, the Cult Awareness and Information Centre organized a conference on "cult-busting" at Queensland University.^[7] The University of Queensland (UQ) has its main campus in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, specifically in the suburb of St Lucia. ...

Cited by contemporary works

The Cult Awareness and Information Centre continues to be listed as a resource by authors of associated works, including Carter's Amway Motivational Organizations in 1999,^[8] Evert,^[9] Bundschuh and Finley in 2001,^[10] Kaplan's Millenial Violence, in 2002,^[11] Snow's Deadly Cults: The Crimes of True Believers, in 2003,^[12] and Fish's Not Taught!, in 2006.^[13] In June 2006, Australia's The Courier Mail cited the Cult Awareness and Information Centre on the cult "The Family" that was at the time under investigation by the Federal Bureau of Investigation.^[14] The Cult Awareness and Information Centre was also cited as a resource in the Canadian Security Intelligence Service report: "Doomsday Religious Movements".^[15] The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is a federal criminal investigative, intelligence agency, and the primary investigative arm of the United States Department of Justice (DOJ). ... The CSIS crest The Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) (French: Service Canadien du Renseignement de SÃ©curitÃ©) (SCRS) is Canadas national intelligence agency and the lead agency responsible for intelligence collection and operations within Canada and abroad. ...

Cease and desist from Landmark Education

In November 2006, the American self-help company Landmark Education sent the Cult Awareness and Information Centre a Cease and desist letter, requesting that it stop hosting a Pièces à Conviction documentary on the company's actions in France, entitled: Voyage to the Land of the New Gurus.^[16] Similar letters had been sent to Google Video, Youtube, and Internet Archive,^[17] and the story was picked up worldwide by the Reuters newsservice.^[18] According to the Electronic Frontier Foundation, the Cult Awareness and Information Centre had continued to host the documentary while Landmark Education's copyright campaign was ongoing in the United States.^[19] Landmark Education later dropped its Copyright subpoenas against Google and an anonymous poster of the video.^[17] Landmark had previously sought subpoenas in Federal court in California, under the Digital Millenium Copyright Act.^[17] In 2007, the Cult Awareness and Information Centre allowed Landmark Education to post a "Reply to Posting of France TV3 Program", on their Web site, in a subsection of their page on the documentary, which included links to Landmark Education's Web site.^[20] Though the term self-help can refer to any case whereby an individual or a group betters themselves economically, intellectually or emotionally, the connotations of the phrase have come to apply particularly to psychological or psychotherapeutic nostrums, often purveyed through the popular genre of the self-help book. ... A private company is a company that is independently owned. ... Landmark Education LLC (LE) offers training and development programs in over 20 countries. ... Cease-and-desist is a legal term meaning essentially stop: It is used in demands for a person or organization to stop doing something (to cease and desist from doing it). ... PiÃ¨ces Ã Conviction (Incriminating Evidence) is a French investigative journalism program that airs on the national evening news, on channel France 3. ... A documentary is a work in a visual or auditory medium presenting political, scientific, social, or historical subjects in a factual and informative manner. ... Voyage au pays des nouveaux gourous, (Voyage to the Land of the New Gurus) is a TV documentary that presents an investigation of the activities of Landmark Education in France. ... Google Video is a free Google service that allows anyone to upload video clips to Googles web servers as well as make their own media available free of charge or through Google Video Store for a cost that they can set. ... YouTube is a popular free video sharing website which lets users upload, view, and share video clips. ... The logo of Internet Archive Internet Archive headquarters The Internet Archive (IA) is a non-profit organization dedicated to maintaining an on-line library and archive of Web and multimedia resources. ... The World in Plate Carrée Projection In English, world is rooted in a compound of the obsolete words were, man, and eld, age; thus, its oldest meaning is Age of Man. ... Reuters Group plc (LSE: RTR and NASDAQ: RTRSY); pron. ... EFF Logo The EFF uses the blue ribbon as symbolism for their Free Speech defense. ... Official language(s) English Capital Sacramento Largest city Los Angeles Area Ranked 3rd - Total 158,302 sq mi (410,000 kmÂ²) - Width 250 miles (400 km) - Length 770 miles (1,240 km) - % water 4. ... The Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) is a controversial United States copyright law which criminalizes production and dissemination of technology that can circumvent measures taken to protect copyright, not merely infringement of copyright itself, and heightens the penalties for copyright infringement on the Internet. ...

References

^ Guilliatt, Richard (1996). Talk of the Devil: Repressed Memory & the Ritual Abuse Witch-Hunt. The Text Publishing Company.
^ Staff. "Talk of the Devil, Book Review", New Zealand Herald, September 3, 1995, pp. News Review Page A14.
^ About Jan, Cult Awareness and Information Centre, 2006.
^ "My Story in: Talk of the Devil", Jan Groenveld, excerpted portion of Talk of the Devil (with permission), 1996.
^ Who on Earth is the Cult Awareness & Information Centre??, Jan Groenveld, Cult Awareness & Information Centre.
^ Winell, Marlene (December 1983). Leaving the Fold. Harbinger Publications.
^ Staff. "Australia's CAN: Cult Aware", New Dawn, October 1993, pp. 11-12, No. 21.
^ Carter, Ruth (September 1, 1999). Amway Motivational Organizations: Behind the Smoke and Mirrors. Backstreet Publishing. ISBN 0967107024 , ISBN 978-0967107028.
^ Evert, Jason (October 2001). Answering Jehovah's Witnesses. Catholic Answers, 159. ISBN 1888992212 , ISBN 978-1888992212.
^ Bundschuh, Rick; Tom Finley (2001). Junior High and Middle School Talksheets Psalms and Proverbs-Updated!. Zondervan, 38. ISBN 031023851X.
^ Kaplan, Jeffrey (2002). Millennial Violence: Past, Present and Future. Routledge, 60. ISBN 0714652946.
^ Snow, Robert L. (2003). Deadly Cults: The Crimes of True Believers. Praeger/Greenwood, 196. ISBN 0275980529.
^ Fish, Darwin (2006). Not Taught!. Lulu Press, Inc., 261. ISBN 1411685636.
^ Thompson, Tuck. "FBI investigates Coast sex cult", The Courier Mail, 19 November 2005.
^ "Doomsday Religious Movements", PERSPECTIVES, a Canadian Security Intelligence Service publication, Report # 2000/03, December 18, 1999. available online, last updated November 1, 2000.
^ Landmark and the Internet Archive, Electronic Frontier Foundation
^ ^a ^b ^c Jones, K.C.. "Landmark Drops Copyright Infringement Subpoenas On Google And Anonymous Critic", InformationWeek, December 1, 2006.
^ Auchard, Eric. "Google faces legal challenges over video service", Reuters, November 11, 2006.
^ Staff. "Landmark Forum's Internet Censorship Campaign Goes Down Under", Electronic Frontier Foundation, November 17, 2006, pp. Landmark goes Down Under after the jump.
^ Landmark Education reply to France 3 documentary, In response to concerns by Landmark Education regarding the France 3 documentary "Voyage to the Land of the New Gurus", CAIC has offered Landmark Education a right of reply. The content below is from Landmark Education in response to this offer., Copyright (c) 1995-2007 Cult Awareness and Information Centre., retrieved 05-08-2007.

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See also

Category: 1990 establishments The International Cultic Studies Association (ICSA) is: ... an interdisciplinary network of academicians, professionals, former group members, and families who study and educate the public about social-psychological influence and control, authoritarianism, and zealotry in cultic groups, alternative movements, and other environments. ... Cultic Studies Review: An Internet Journal of Research, News & Opinion is the successor to the academic journal the Cultic Studies Journal. ... The Christian countercult movement, also known as discernment ministries is the collective designation for many mostly unrelated ministries and individual Christians who oppose non-mainstream Christian and non-Christian religious groups, which they often call cults. ... Steven Alan Hassan (1954 - ) is a licensed mental health counselor and an exit counselor. ... This article is becoming very long. ... A client cult is a term used in sociology of religion for religions which model themselves on, and use practices resembling or inspired by, clinical psychology, psychotheraphy, psychoanalysis and psychiatry. ... A cult apologist is a term to describe a scholar of cults and/or new religious movements perceived as responding to the movements they study with advocacy instead of with neutral scholarship. ... In many countries there exists a separation of church and state and freedom of religion. ... A cult of personality or personality cult arises when a countrys leader uses mass media to create a larger-than-life public image through unquestioning flattery and praise. ... Cult suicide is that phenomenon by which some religious groups, in this context often referred to as cults, have led to their membership committing suicide. ... A cult-watching group (CWG) is an organized or grass-roots assemblage of people who observe and comment on the largely marginal, often unpopular new religious movements which are often labeled cults. These groups generally fall into the following categories: anti-cult (movement) - Accuses NRMs of using mind control to... The term destructive cult (sometimes called doomsday cult) is sometimes used to refer to that small number of religious groups that have intentionally killed people, either the group members themselves or others outside of the group. ... The word cult is almost never used in regard to political parties, even if they were to share many or most other characteristics associated with religious cults. ... Contents: Top - 0â€“9 A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z Steven Hassan Flo Conway Janja Lalich Michael Langone Thomas Lardeur[1] Jim Siegelman Margaret Singer Madeleine Landau Tobias Cult Education... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... Since 1978, some governments have compiled lists of groups that they have termed either cults, doomsday cults, or sects - in order to focus study on those groups within their respective countries. ... This list indexes a diverse set of groups and organizations indicated in the popular press and elsewhere as a cult or a sect. Inclusion is based on a single reference: as a cult directly in North American English, a sect in British English or any equivalent foreign-language word; as... This list includes academic and government researchers and groups studying new religious movements and cults. ... Cult Awareness Network - Wikipedia /**/ @import /skins-1. ... CESNUR is a center for studies on new religions, based in Turin, Italy. ... The Fight Against Coercive Tactics Network, or FACTNet, is a Colorado-based organization committed to educating and facilitating communication about destructive mind control. ... This article is being considered for deletion in accordance with Wikipedias deletion policy. ... The International Cultic Studies Association (ICSA) is: ... an interdisciplinary network of academicians, professionals, former group members, and families who study and educate the public about social-psychological influence and control, authoritarianism, and zealotry in cultic groups, alternative movements, and other environments. ... The introduction to this article provides insufficient context for those unfamiliar with the subject matter. ... Reachout Trust is an evangelical Christian organisation. ... Wellspring Retreat and Resource Center is a residential counseling center specializing in the treatment of individuals who have suffered in abusive religious groups, organizations, and cults. ... It has been suggested that Opposition to cults and new religious movements be merged into this article or section. ... The Christian countercult movement, also known as discernment ministries is the collective designation for many mostly unrelated ministries and individual Christians who oppose non-mainstream Christian and non-Christian religious groups, which they often call cults. ... Opposition to cults and new religious movements (NRMs) comes from several sources with diverse concerns. ... The APA Task Force on Deceptive and Indirect Techniques of Persuasion and Control (DIMPAC) was formed at the request of the American Psychological Association (APA) in 1983. ... An atrocity story as defined by the sociologists David G. Bromley and Anson D. Shupe is the symbolic presentation of action or events (real or imaginary) in such a context that they are made flagrantly to violate the (presumably) shared premises upon which a given set of social relationships should... Dorlands Medical Dictionary defines brainwashing (also known as thought reform or re-education) as any systematic effort aimed at instilling certain attitudes and beliefs in a person against his will, usually beliefs in conflict with his prior beliefs and knowledge. ... A cult checklist is a group of factors proposed to identify objectively which groups, cults, or new religious movements are spurious, or likely to abuse or exploit or otherwise harm its members. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... It has been suggested that this article or section be merged with deprogramming. ... Mind control (or thought control) has the premise that an outside source can control an individuals thinking, behavior or consciousness (either directly or more subtly). ... This article is in need of attention. ... Apostasy (from Greek Î±Ï€Î¿ÏƒÏ„Î±ÏƒÎ¯Î±, meaning a defection or revolt , from Î±Ï€Î¿, apo, away, apart, ÏƒÏ„Î±ÏƒÎ¹Ï‚, stasis, standing) is a term generally employed to describe the formal renunciation of ones religion, especially if the motive is deemed unworthy. ... A bigot is a prejudiced person who is intolerant of opinions, lifestyles, or identities differing from his or her own. ... Jesus is considered by historians such as Weber to be an example of a charismatic religious leader; The sociologist Max Weber defined charismatic authority as resting on devotion to the exceptional sanctity, heroism or exemplary character of an individual person, and of the normative patterns or order revealed or ordained... Freedom of speech is the right to freely say what one pleases, as well as the related right to hear what others have stated. ... The Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen guarantees freedom of religion, as long as religious activities do not infringe on public order in ways detrimental to society. ... Groupthink is a type of thought exhibited by group members who try to minimize conflict and reach consensus without critically testing, analyzing, and evaluating ideas. ... The International Religious Freedom Act of 1998 (Public Law 106-55) was passed to promote religious freedom as a US Foreign policy and to advocate on the behalf of the individuals viewed as persecuted in foreign countries on the account of religion. ... Large Group Awareness Training or LGAT is a term popularized in the American Psychological Associations 1986 draft DIMPAC report and also by Margaret Singer in her 1996 book Cults in our Midst to describe intense commercial trainings by non-psychologists which from the outside may resemble group therapy. ... Minority religion is the religion held by a minority of the population of a country, state, or region. ... The word occult comes from the Latin occultus (clandestine, hidden, secret), referring to knowledge of the hidden. In the medical sense it is used commonly to refer to a structure or process that is hidden, e. ... Project Megiddo was a report researched and written by the FBI under Louis Freehs leadership. ... Religious intolerance is either intolerance motivated by ones own religious beliefs or intolerance against anothers religious beliefs or practices. ... It has been suggested that Historical persecution by Christians#Theological debate of persecution be merged into this article or section. ... Satanism Associated organizations Church of Satan First Satanic Church Prominent figures Anton LaVey | Blanche Barton | Peter H. Gilmore | Peggy Nadramia | Karla LaVey Associated concepts Left-Hand Path | Pentagonal Revisionism | Suitheism | Survival of the fittest | Objectivism | Might Is Right Books and publications The Satanic Bible | The Satanic Rituals | The Satanic Witch... True-believer syndrome is a term coined by M. Lamar Keene in his 1976 book The Psychic Mafia referring to an irrational belief in paranormal events, even after direct confession or evidence that the events were fraudulently staged. ... 1533 account of the execution of a witch charged with burning the town of Schiltach in 1531. ... The status of religious freedom around the world varies from country to country. ... Eleanor Roosevelt with the Spanish version of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. ...

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Cited by contemporary works

Cease and desist from Landmark Education

References

See also

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