Kindle book “One of the Techniques of Religious Brainwashing Is Closing People In.” Gets High Praise! Collective Gaslighting Becomes Even Clearer as Self-Awareness and Self-Understanding Deepen!
4月 26, 2026菅原隆志58 min read
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High praise for the Kindle book “One of the Techniques of Religious Brainwashing Is Closing People In.”!
First of all, what I want you not to misunderstand is that I do not resent religion now, and I do not resent my parents either. On the contrary, I have accepted and affirmed the past. In other words, although it was a painful past, I found a way through that suffering to see that there was my own psychological growth because of it, and that I gained a great deal from it, so in the end I think, “It was good that way.” I turned trauma into growth and resilience. I believe this has immeasurable psychological value.
Because I do not hold resentment, there is no need to deliberately write the name of the religion and say, “Those people are doing something this terrible!” If I wanted to, I could write about how some people involved in a certain religion were horribly corrupt, could casually make children abort, and lived like monsters, like psychopaths. I have also thought, “If they can’t even manage those below them, that’s probably all they are.” And there is so much I could say, with what I know now and by understanding the past, about how cleverly they sucked money out of believers. But writing such things has no meaning. That is their problem, not mine. The person who is deceived, the person who deceives, the person who lives without noticing—these are all their own problems and challenges. I, for my part, have faced my suffering and solved what I could from my own problems and issues. I clearly distinguish between them.
In the section “Knowing the Truth” in Chapter 4 of the Kindle book “One of the Techniques of Religious Brainwashing Is Closing People In.”, I wrote the following.
People who have lived in falsehood, been deceived, and been brainwashed come to know “the truth” on the other side of overcoming it. Because they suffered through falsehood, their ability to see truth improves. They did not suffer in vain. Harvard University research has shown that the emotion of hope appears only after despair. The same applies to other things as well.
The deeper you know falsehood, the more deeply you can know truth.
“Knowing the Truth” in Chapter 4 of “One of the Techniques of Religious Brainwashing Is Closing People In.”and
Regarding religion (here I do not mean all religions, but the small part I was involved with), I think “thank you for the falsehood.” Falsehood becomes harder to notice the more cunning it is. Even if, from the outside, a group seems obviously strange, if you are born inside that group like I was, and are not treated as human just for questioning it (when you have thoughts like an ordinary person), as a child I resisted, and without fully understanding what it was, without being able to put it into words, I followed my heart and resisted what I felt was “wrong,” but it was not easy.
For a child, it was something that could not be defended against unless one was ready to throw away one’s life and risk everything. In an environment where falsehoods, distortions, and delusions are replaced and implanted as if they were correct, I like myself for not allowing that intrusion to reach the precious things deep within my heart, and I told the small self inside me, “You did well.”
I have seen many people stained by corruption within falsehood, and among them he causes various harmful effects and controls people. There was a great deal of behavior born from the “weakness of lacking courage” as a human being, such as brainwashing, mind control, psychological manipulation (gaslighting), small attacks, replacing the subject, and creating scapegoats. Because I have experienced that, by putting it into words and acquiring knowledge, the full picture becomes visible. Now I often understand clearly what those things from the past were.
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