This process is assumed as setting the identity of a person aside. “In destructive cults and before starting brainwashing, the victim accepts his character is satanic and must be changed into another one by using various methods of mind control and influence.

He/she has been changed step by step without being understood. When the victim achieves this stage of brainwashing, most of his/her beliefs will be changed gradually and they have accepted, they had been brainwashing before.

Consequently, the victim will be changed into the one whom he/she has been asked. The poor victim forgets his/her past and has to imitate the leader of the cult. He/she will lose his/her identity.