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FLD: https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/extremist-files/group/fundamentalist-church-jesus-christ-latter-day-saints

SARIN GAS ATTACK: https://www.opcw.org/media-centre/news/2001/06/sarin-gas-attack-japan-and-related-forensic-investigation

https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/tokyo-subways-are-attacked-with-sarin-gas

AUM & ASAHARA SHOKO: https://www.britannica.com/biography/Asahara-Shoko

https://www.cfr.org/backgrounder/aum-shinrikyo

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3. One last thing they had in common was their view on their external threats. Warren believed that the world was out to get him and isolated his group in secluded area's of Utah. While the government is after the FLD, the stress is high as they are trying to wipe Warren and his group out. Aum, see's the end of the world as their biggest threat. Both of their stressors are extremely large and high stress, one able to destroy the whole cult (the government) and the other, a conspiracy that causes extreme paranoia and power. Both of their external threats are ones that could ruin their cults.

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2. Another thing the two groups have in common is their members' similarity in backgrounds. While Aum's members are mostly college students or graduate's with good educations, they are all similar. They all have educations in science, no future commitments and no worries about their future. While Warrens members consisted of mostly young women and all Mormons who believed in the sick habits of Warren. All of their members shared a similar view and mindset that they wanted to follow, or one that their leader told them to follow.

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1. One thing that the two groups have in common is directive leadership. Aum Shinrikyo has directive leadership from Shoko Asahara, who formed the group as well as made himself known as one with God. He also made his members believe that he could speak to Christ and see the future. Warren, similar to Shoko, is a directive leader for his cult, FLD, and holds extreme power over his people. While Warren might not have founded his group, he has extreme power over it. Warren also made his people believe that he was one with Christ and God spoke through him.

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Throughout the documentary, Prophet's Prey, it is seen that they are an isolated, large, and controlled cult group, similar to Aum Shinrikyo.

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While the Bystander effect never happened with the cult, as the police responded to the scene, the Tokyo subway, almost immediately after receiving a call that people were extremely sick and hospitals were overflowing with patients. The police arrived to the scene where Aum sprayed and dumped the sarin, and animals and plants around the area were already dead. So, the initial call was immediate and there was no bystander. Hypothetically, if Aum attacked a public area where people were gathered, most people would not report it as they assume some else already did.

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Since Aum is an extremely large cult, it would be difficult to have the leader directly involved with the whole cult. Shoko Asahara was mainly involved with the main cult group in Tokyo. The factors that make Obedience to Authority valid for Aum Shinrikyo, are that Asahara was extremely known as the highest figure of authority in the cult and had the highest status. Another factor is that the authority figure is present and participating by observing. Asahara would fill that role, directly in contact with his members and observing some groups in Tokyo.

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Obedience to authority is the tendency people have to try to please those in charge.

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The main factors that determine team cohesion are the similarity between members' interests, group size, and the threat of external competitors. For Aum, all the members interests were the same, as it was their goal; survive the apocalypse and figure out how to. The size of Aum was around 40,000 people, making it easy to share a similar idea. The threat to Aum was the rest of the population, those who didn't believe in the end of the world, or care.

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To join and stay in Aum, you had to except and believe in the spiritual path and participate in psychic-development exercises along with giving total control and devotion to their guru. There weren't many rules, except staying loyal and maintaining the trust and devotion.

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Aum's group think consists mainly because of its directive leadership by Shoko Asahara, even though their cult had around 40,000 members at one point. Asahara was a very clear and authoritative leader, while also keeping their cult connected and aware of their surroundings, in other words their other members in Japan.

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Groupthink is a phenomenon that occurs when a group of individuals reaches a consensus without critical reasoning or evaluation of the consequences or alternatives

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Currently, Aum consists of less than 1,000 members total, but at the time of the Tokyo attack they had 9,000 members in Japan and around 40,000 - 60,000 worldwide.

Shoko Asahara, leader of Aum Shinrikyo

Yoshihiro Inoue, Aum's "head of intelligence" and chief coordinator of the Tokyo subway attack

Tomomitsu Niimi, the getaway driver for Ikuo Hayashi, one of the perpetrators of the Tokyo subway attack

Tomomasa Nakagawa, a perpetrator of the Sakamoto family murder

Kiyohide Hayakawa, Aum's "construction minister", convicted of strangling a young cult member in 1989 suspected of dissidence

Seiichi Endo, the "head scientist" of Aum Shinrikyo

Masami Tsuchiya, Aum Shinrikyo's chief chemist and director of the sarin gas manufacturing

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Most of Aum's members were young graduates who were educated and on a track of science, heavily influenced by terrorist groups and pressure. Most graduates do not have a future commitment, and this is an opportunity for a commitment. (No prior commitment to a response) At the age that most of the young members were, they were impressed and respectful of the status, causing them to join with no real worries about their future.

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when an individual tends to change their opinions, behaviors, attitudes and actions to fit the rest of the group.

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Aum Shinrikyo is known as a terrorist organization for its sarin attack on the Tokyo subway system in 1995. During the morning hours, members of Aum put a liquid form of sarin (an extremely toxic synthetic organophosphorus compound), in tightly contained packages, designed to look like lunch boxes onto five cars on three separate subway lines that converged at the Kasumigaseki station. The members punctured the containers, releasing the liquid into the cars and station. Eyewitnesses said that subway entrances resembled "battlefields" as injured people lay struggling on the ground with blood gushing from their noses or mouths.
Twelve members of Aum were sentenced to the death penalty, including their leader Asahara Shoko.

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Aum Shinrikyo, also known as Aum and Aleph, is a Japanese cult that combines beliefs from Buddhism, and Hinduism, and is obsessed with the apocalypse. Asahara preached that the end of the world was near and that it was believed that the apocalypse was to come in the early 2000's.

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Aum Shinrikyo, a new Japanese religious movement, was formed in 1984 in Tokyo, Japan by Matsumoto Chizuo, known to his followers as Master Asahara Shoko.