·        Personal and family harms

·        The harms due to applying mental persuasion and complex mind control methods by the cults

·        Security, political and economic harms

     She writes in this regard:

     “Cults deviate some of the best minds of the society from training and positive thoughts. Most people were drawn to cults; where they have spent all of their lifetimes for the power and interests of the cult leader. They have lost the best years of their lifetimes. If they separate, they won’t be able to apply their previous abilities and talents.”

     “Because they ask the members a complete commitment… Cults harm to our democratic method of life seriously. They are intentionally blocking the educational and occupational aims. They destroy families. They challenge the personal relationships and force the followers to bestow their properties and other accessories. In many cases, the consequences of being the member of a cult can be scathing, long-term and irreparable.”

     Singer stresses:

     “Some members of the cult will end in being hospitalized in mental hospitals. Several years after a sectarian experience, they will be isolated… Even those who haven’t experienced the chronic mental problems may encounter remarkable problems in their concordance with normal life.”

     This researcher mentions some cases of harms which prevent member to turn against the cults such as beliefs, honesty and loyalty, the devotion to leader, the group pressure and lack of information, tiredness, bafflement, fear (from the cult punishments), sense of being sinful, mental harms, being distrustful and suspected, lack of self-confidence, fear from oneself, weakness in personal and social relationships, philosophical and cognitive categories and etc.

     According to the above-mentioned statements harms can be divided into several groups:

·        Physical harms: Including the physical exploitation of disciples and life consequences based on practical-intellectual rudiments and harms due to sectarian violence actions (revengeful measures such as assassination, physical harm and etc.)

·        Character-psychological harms: This group is of the most important and the deepest ones which include long-termed and irreparable consequences from identity disorders to cognitive weakness, the lack of self-confidence, lack of will power, actions feeling of fear and sin and…

·        Social harms such as harms which destroy the rudiments of family (as the most important and the first social foundation), loneliness, inability to have social relationships, being suspicious with society and…

·        Philosophical-theological harms