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Information about Brainwashing & Thought Reform
Lifton's eight 'psychological themes' that can be found in totalist groups like the Holy Rollers:
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Information
about Cults
Think
You Can't be Lured into a Cult? Think Again.
The Oregon State Insane Asylum in 1907
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Relevant Newspaper Articles:
October to December 1903: Holy Rollers Burn Furniture & Pets
April to June 1904: Holy Rollers are Committed to the Asylum
Sample Chapters from Holy Rollers:
Murder and Madness in Oregon's
Love Cult
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The Cast of Characters
Photos and Bios of the Holy Rollers
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1903 to 1907 Newspaper Articles About the Holy Rollers
1906 Editorial Calling for Gun Control
After Multiple Murders Involving the Holy Rollers
Stewart Holbrook Holy Rollers Article
Advertisements from 1893 to 1913
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Oregon Insane Asylum
Where the Holy Rollers Were
Committed
Creffield, Brainwashing & Thought Reform
Early Cases of Not Guilty by Reason of Insanity
1906 Autopsies Of Holy Rollers
Forensics Before CSI
Holy Roller Bizarre Divorce Decree
Hartley describes trying to kill his wife's lover
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How the Fire Fell
A Movie About The Holy Rollers
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Life
in Corvallis in the early 1900s
Life
in Waldport, OR in early 1900s
Facts & Stats about 1906
And How The Holy Rollers Measured Up
Oregon State Penitentiary
Where Creffield Was
Incarcerated
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Info
about Cults
Could
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Share your thoughts about, and experiences with, cults
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Creffield's
Preachings
Creffield
Vs. Crefeld
The
Salvation Army Opening Fire in 1886
Holy
Roller Theology
Reverend
Knapp's Bible Songs of Salvation &
Victory
Songs Sung by
the Holy Rollers
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Creffield and the Dispensing of Existence
"Perhaps
the most significant characteristic of totalistic
movements is what I call 'dispensing of existence,'" Dr.
Lifton writes. "Those who have not seen the light and
embraced the truth are wedded to evil, tainted, and
therefore in some sense, usually metaphorical, lack the
right to exist. That is one reason why a cult member
threatened with being cast into outer darkness may
experience a fear of extinction or collapse."
If someone lacks the right to exist, not only is it permissible for you to kill them, it is your duty to kill them. That was the unfortunate conclusion some in Franz Edmund Creffield's cult came to.
- "When Franz Edmund Creffield placed
his hands on his followers heads they were absolutely in
his power and did anything he told them," Burgess Starr,
an in-law of his said. "Had he told them to jump in the
river they would not have hesitated a moment, but plunged
in." And when he order them to, they did more than jump
in a river. When he ordered them to burn cats and dogs
and to do worse, they burned cats and dogs and did
worse.
Alas, to tell you exactly what "worse" they did would give away the last third of the book Holy Rollers. To find those details out, you'll just have to read it for yourself.
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Information about Brainwashing & Thought Reform
Lifton's eight 'psychological themes' that can be found in totalist groups like the Holy Rollers:
***
Information
about Cults
Think
You Can't be Lured into a Cult? Think Again.
The Oregon State Insane Asylum in 1907
***
Relevant Newspaper Articles:
October to December 1903: Holy Rollers Burn Furniture & Pets
April to June 1904: Holy Rollers are Committed to the Asylum
Holy Rollers: Murder & Madness in Oregon's Love Cult
The Prologue
Chapter 1: Life Before Creffield (B.C.)
Chapter 2: Creffield's Preachings
Chapter 4: The Holy Rollers Roll on Kiger Island
Chapter 5: A Sacrificial Bonfire
Chapter 6: Community Concerns
Chapter 7: Esther, The Chosen One
Chapter 8: Tar and Feathers
Chapter 9: The Holy Rollers are Committed to the Insane Asylum
Chapter 10: More Beast Than Man
Chapter 11: God Will Plead Creffield's Case
Chapter 13: Calm Before the Storm
Chapter 14: Men are Gunning for Creffield
Chapter 16: The Widow Creffield
Chapter 19: An Inherited Streak of Insanity
Chapter 20: Testimony
Chapter 21: Two Other Murders
Chapter 23: Seeking Reconciliation
Chapter 24: Another Holy Roller Page One Murder
Chapter 25: What Can Papa Do For You?
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