A few days ago, the Guangdong police detected a case of harmful training. The reporter learned that a harmful training organization that peddled so-called "soul communication services" introduced foreign fallacies and heresies, exercised mental control over its members by instilling pseudo-scientific content and other means, and illegally amassed more than 63 million yuan, which not only directly endangered the safety of the masses' personal and property, but also seriously undermined legal order and social stability.
Intimidating the "hunting" trainees caused many people to go insane
At 19:00 on August 24, 2017, Ms. Wu of Beijing suddenly fainted while receiving "psychological counseling" at Foshan Endorn Psychological Consulting Company, and died of ineffective rescue.
When investigating the matter, unusual information such as "spiritual communication to cure physical diseases" and "dialogue with souls in past lives" repeatedly mentioned by relevant personnel attracted the attention of the Foshan police.
After investigation, Foshan Endorn Company is the general center of the heretical speakers advocating "deep communication with only knowledge" in the mainland, and the actual controller is named Wu Dian. This cult originated from abroad and has risen in China in recent years, mainly a "hodgepodge" of psychology, hypnosis, some religious theories, and some concepts and theories in quantum mechanics. Its advocates claim that through deep communication, people can talk to the soul, both to "go back to the mind of the past life" and "to advance the mind of the future", and then to "unlock the code of the soul and rebuild the program of life".
Chen Chaoying, a staff member of the Propaganda Department of the Guangdong Provincial CPC Committee, told reporters that the heresy described life distress and physical illness as "a 'karmic obstacle' from the depths of the soul," and that if it were to be eliminated, it must be done in accordance with the "scientific and effective repentance technique." In fact, it was maliciously induced by the hypnotist.
Ms. Shao, a student, told reporters that the communicator would tell the trainees that if they did not eliminate the "karmic obstacles", they would "affect their fortunes" and "be followed by the undead for a lifetime", spreading fear and anxiety and gradually dragging the trainees into the trap.
"This kind of mental clamping method will make the communicated person fall into a carefully woven trap under strong psychological pressure, so as to believe in their fallacies and fallacies." Chen Chaoying said that after a certain period of time, it is difficult for the victim to get out of control by relying on his own strength.
The reporter learned that many of the group's trainees were insane and even died of illness due to delay.
Some family members of trainees reported that their families had serious suicidal tendencies after attending the "deep communication" training class. A student at a branch center in Chongqing was hospitalized with a mental disorder after receiving "communication" twice.
Some employees present reported that the so-called "communication division" not only did not interrupt the "communication" when Ms. Wu became ill, but also sent her to the hospital in time, but still "communicated" with words on the side. After that, Ms. Wu died of ineffective rescue.
"These trainees have more or less psychological problems, and the organization blindly instills the 'karmic obstacles in past lives', delaying the real illness." A psychiatrist at the Third People's Hospital of Foshan city said.
Some trainees have sold property debts
The police handling the case said that Wu Dian and his gang carried out mental control on the trainees to frantically accumulate wealth, so they designed a set of "precision marketing" system to absorb and screen the "hunting" objects in a targeted and step-by-step manner.
The first step is to organize so-called public lectures and parent-child camp activities in schools, kindergartens and other places, and filter out the information by letting parents fill out questionnaires to screen the targets.
"Most of the trainees who participated in the training were middle-aged women who were troubled by feelings and parent-child relationships." Wu Dian said that they are often plagued by emotional problems and do not want to see a psychologist, "deep communication is just to meet this need, and the pretense is very fashionable and seductive." ”
The second step is to recommend a free audition course to the target person, repeatedly hypnotize and control the trainees, and coax them to be hooked.
In the third step, the trainees were gradually penetrated into their personal lives and spiritual world by criminals in the form of public lectures on parent-child relationship, key counseling, and one-on-one counseling. By giving in to the design of the curriculum, the criminals continue to deepen their contact with the students and increase their control, so that the students cannot get out.
The police handling the case told reporters that it generally costs 100,000 yuan for trainees to complete the course, and the organization will also organize training projects such as wealth classes, elite camps, and parent-child classes from time to time, which are more expensive. The books, audio-visual products, etc. allocated to the trainees in the training are all expensive, often selling for 100,000 yuan for a box of CDs. The reporter learned that some trainees sold their properties and overdrafted their credit cards for this reason, and finally the debts were high and unsustainable.
The organization has also set up a set of "advanced" paths of "ordinary students - communication teachers - heads of sub-centers", and students can become certified "communicators" certified by the company after completing the credits, and then pay a franchise fee ranging from 100,000 yuan to hundreds of thousands of yuan to set up a sub-center. After that, 10 trainees must be sent to the main center every year to return profits, and the profits obtained will be divided into 4:2:4 ratio with the Foshan general center and overseas headquarters.
"This is similar to the traditional MLM model, that is, through the development of the downline to achieve the purpose of bundling layer by layer and accumulating wealth." The police handling the case said that in just a few years, Foshan Endorn Company has opened 57 sub-centers in 24 provinces, autonomous regions and cities across the country, illegally accumulating more than 63 million yuan.
Strengthen the fight against harmful training social tumors
In recent years, some training institutions, information consulting companies, etc. have carried out harmful training under the guise of "spiritual communication", "leadership training", "breakthrough self", etc., infringing on the legitimate rights and interests of the public and causing various social problems.
"Such institutions use viral means of dissemination to advocate 'pseudoscience, true superstition' content and mental control of trainees." Zhu Junqiang, a professor at the Law School of Guangzhou University, said, "If such organizational activities are allowed, it will not only have a serious impact on the normal social order, but also seriously weaken the core values of socialism." ”
A number of experts interviewed pointed out that although the relevant departments insist on carrying out special rectification of harmful training, some organizations still rely on tricks such as "frequent replacement of vests" to successfully evade the crackdown and continue to amass wealth and harm people. Experts suggest that all relevant functional departments should strengthen joint management and comprehensive measures, incorporate training institutions entering the market into normalized supervision, effectively find out the bottom number, and adhere to the principle of "fighting when they emerge" to prevent them from sitting on the big trend.
Experts also suggested that the role of grass-roots grid governance should be brought into play, and harmful training in the name of public welfare lectures and company team building should not be allowed to take advantage of the opportunity. Grass-roots organizations should also strengthen public education on the knowledge related to the identification of harmful training, so that harmful training has no place to hide.
Source: Yanzhao Evening News