ABSTRACT
This Milestone addresses three interrelated subjects: introjects, critical thinking and phobias. It first explores the idea that individuals introject beliefs, behaviours and loaded language from their coercive, cultic and spiritually abusive setting, and that this builds a pseudo-identity, which squeezes and constricts them. Introjects are explained, including their relationship to confluence, how they are used to exercise control, and the need to challenge and disarm them. The reader is invited to identify their own introjects, and chew over and challenge them, using Worksheets. Critical thinking is then explained, and the reader is encouraged to learn and apply critical thinking skills, and to consider introjected beliefs and other ideas systematically and rationally. The final section explains phobias generally, then discusses introjects which become phobias, especially those which may be installed intentionally in a cultic setting as a means of control. Various strategies are set out for disarming phobias and challenging the underlying introjects.
