Fourth Step: Make Demands

            Starting small begin to make more and more increasingly high demands from your followers. You must first begin with demanding your followers time. To completely absorb your followers time you must create lengthy sermons that occur many times during the week. You must create positions of value in the group so that way the members will have a goal to work toward in the cult. You must then demand some sort of monetary donation that becomes necessary to keep the group financially stable. Mind control is a very important part of securing the obedience of your followers. You must make them trust your guidance more than their own free will, logic, and common sense. You then need to decide are you going to make your cult religious, commercial, or political. Each has their own set of pros, cons, and conditions to their growth but it is best to decide your focus that way you can convince your followers that your decisions are the best for the group. As a religious cult you can either follow a religion or create your own belief system you must demand blind faith from your followers. An example of a religious cult would be the New Age Movement which hopes to create world wide communism. As a commercial cult you would demand money from your followers and lead them to believe that you will all become rich based on your proposed plan of action for the family. An example of a commercial cult could be considered the U.S. Government which is based on greed When you are a political cult you must have an adversary to pit your followers against that is the Arch enemy of your group. The negative focus must be on the enemy. An example of a political cult would be the Nazis who made the Jewish community their target during World War II.