Heroes Behind Headlines
Heroes Behind Headlines
Heroes Behind Headlines
Risks and Challenges of Cult Deprogramming
59 minutes Posted Mar 30, 2026 at 4:00 am.
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Whether you call it brainwashing, programming, indoctrination, or something else, cult members have been taught to think, feel, and act in certain ways. The goal of the cult deprogrammer is to empower the individual to think critically, to evaluate, to reality-test; and to exercise their own free will. Over his long career, Mark Blockson has participated in more than 100 interventions or kidnappings at the behest of families who are trying to rescue loved ones from religious cults. He t...