THE PSYCHOLOGY OF SATANIC CULT INVOLVEMENT: AN ...

had trouble in school, I failed every year. I Iimpaired concentration and scholastic failure.
couldn't understand why I couldn't concentrate
in school.
28. Eventually I finished school, went on to 28. B finally completed his schooling and
college and studied business administration, obtained tertiary qualifications.
went on to university andgot two certificates.
29. It's a spirit. The sixties gave birth to some 29. B experienced the 1960s as a rebellious
sort of a spirit of rebellion, to do everything period characterised, like Satanism, by the
oppOsite, the reverse. Which is really what reversal ofsocietal nonns.
Satanism is all about. Its a rebellion against ...
ifthe law says you do this, well you go out and
do the opposite. Its a reversal of all and
everything.
30. I met up with a group ofpeople who used 30. After meeting a group of drug users B
drugs. I started smoking dope, taking acid, too began tiling drugs.
mainlining ... shooting up.
31. I never got busted, kept myself pretty 131. B, having been careful to avoid arrest,
secure. And then we went on to international became involved in international drug
drug smuggling.
smuggling.
32. And then the time came that an attorney
involved in this actually approached me to start
terminating people.
32. A legal professional involved in criminal
activities approached B with a view to
recruiting him as an assassin.
33. At this time Satanism was only beginning to
come out of the ground, it was a very loose
organisation. Anton LaVey actually pulled it
together...ljoinedon April 30th, Walpurgis day
1969. I joined three years after Anton LaVey
started his church.
33. B joined the satanic movement shortly
after the Church of Satan was founded by
Anton LaVey.
34. But we started our own one - it was not 34. Although drawing on LaVey's satanic
connected to him at all. But we used his ublications, B was active! involved m
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