Recruitment & Indoctrination

Youth recruitment to the cult is a long, elaborate, and secretive process. The goal is to produce a blindly obedient disciple, assigned to a "spiritual guide" in the hierarchy, eager for "consecration".

The process would typically take several years. Starts with the personal selection of the prospect, then the series of 1:1 and closed-group meetings, with a daily, weekly, and seasonal rhythm. The mix of tailored handling of the recruit, and pre-structured rituals, result in removal or suppression of the recruit's personality distinctions, to produce a "standard", uniform cult member. Replacing individual thinking with group loyalty and fate-sharing, descending down through the hierarchy.

The hierarchy is structured as Dr. Meshreky the very top, then a 1st line "spiritual guides", 2nd line, and so on. With single-level guidance authority and reporting within each "unit" in the pyramid, analogous to a military organization.

The principles of recruitment match those of the Islamic extremist group "Excommunication & Exodus = التكفير والهجرة" except justification for violence. That group did ravage upper Egypt during Atef's college years. Summarized in that: All around you is corrupt and infidels, by culpability, association, or complacency. The world is controlled by evil. You're different, called to a divine mission. We have to coalesce, separate away, isolate from the world.

Cult recruiters coordinate between individual 1:1 sessions, and group retreats. There's a few talented recruiters in the cult. The master and most effective by far in the western hemisphere is the ex-pastor Bishoy Andrawes (aka. George ANDREWS).