Cults are most often known and practiced as a system of religious worship and devotion directed toward a particular figure or object. Cults represent a global epidemic of ideological totalism and fundamentalism. Typically, cults target and recruit young adolescents, who are usually confused, curious, and looking for a place to belong and a place where they feel important. Naive and vulnerable young people are less likely to see through the layers of cult deception. However, not all young people are at risk of being recruited into a cult; only those who are easily persuaded and managed are those who are lured and brought into a cult. Once accepted into a sect, recourse to environmental control; control of all communications- slowly begins to separate members from the “outside”. This process is maintained through an intense group process, resulting in the person spending as much time with their sect and as little time and communication with the "outside". By inviting and having more and more people attend a sequence of events, seminars, conferences and meetings, making going out an extreme cult...