STEER CLEAR OF Soka Gakkai 創価学会大好き

FORBES articol:"Death Watch (see also "Sensei's world") www.forbes.com --------- In his book The Soka Gakkai and Mass Society, the Princeton and Stanford scholar James W. White describes how shakubuku was conducted : "Until the early 1960's the literal translation of shakubuku, "to break and flatten," was a reasonably accurate description of the proselyting process. On occasion Gakkai members would surround a home and make noise until one family member agreed to join. Or they would belabor a mark with argument and exhortation for hours on end. Sometimes threats of divine punishment were used: dire injuries and calamities might be predicted as the cost of resistance to the True Religion; a child's illness or death might be traced to the parents' heretical beliefs. In such instances the "fear of punishment [instilled] in a mind weakened and made receptive by hours of pressure" could lead to the collapse of the subject's critical faculties and intellectual defenses, and to his acquiescing in the demands of the proselyters." (White, p.82) Referrals www.unc.edu www.amazon.com ________________________________________ Seizaburo Sato , Professor Emeritus at the University of Tokyo. Research Director of the Institute for International Policy Studies: 'What we are talking about are not open organizations or democratic structures, but something like a Communist Party or worse.We are dealing with a dictatorship built around the person of one man."1999 ...