IS THE TEACHERS GROUP A CULT?
According to the leading academic historian of the Teachers Group at Copenhagen University, Jes Fabricius Møller, ‘the answer must be yes’. This opinion is shared by many observers and cult watchdog organisations around the world.
The five characteristics the Teachers Group shares with better known cults (such as the Moonies or Scientology) are said to include:
1 It uses psychological coercion to recruit, indoctrinate and retain its members
2 It forms an elitist totalitarian society
3 Its founder leader is self-appointed, dogmatic, messianic, not accountable and has charisma
4 It believes ‘the end justifies the means’ in order to solicit funds and recruit people
5 Its wealth does not benefit its members or society.
(Source: The Cult Information Centre, UK)
In December 1995 an official French parliamentary Board of Enquiry into Cults (Commission D’Enquête sur les Sectes) named Humana France as a cult. The report, Les Sectes en France (Cults in France) was presented to the French National Assembly on 20th December 1995. Humana France was absent from France for many years, but has since returned.
CULT WATCHDOGS AND DESTRUCTIVE CULT SUPPORT GROUPS
Rick A Ross Institute, USA
Internet archive of information about cults, destructive cults, controversial groups and movements.
Archive of articles about Tvind Teachers Group: http://www.rickross.com/groups/tvind.html
Freedom of Mind Research Centre
Steve Hassan, cult expert and counsellor
Information on Tvind Teachers Group: http://freedomofmind.com/Info/infoDet.php?id=222&title=Tvind
BOOK
PSYCHO-CULTS – How the soul-catchers work (Psycho- Sekten. Die Praktiken der Seelenfänger) by Frank Nordhausen and Liane von Billerbeck (1999)
In German
Chapter on Tvind and the ‘slave’ plantation in Belize.
(Fischer-TB.-Vlg. Ffm. 1999. ISBN 3596142407)
