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The order of the solar temple also known as OST is a cult that was based off of the knights templer.

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What is the group’s history and their mission?

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What is the group’s history and their mission?

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Founded in 1984, the mass suicide was in 1994-1997. The groups goal was to establish law and power in the world.

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The group formed in 1984 in Geneva Switzerland .

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The group is notorious for the murder-suicide of 74 of its members. These deaths took place in France, Canada and Switzerland.

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Identify the norms of the cult (the rules)

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Identify the norms of the cult (the rules)

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-Members can't defy/disobey the leaders.
-Members must believe in the same causes/beliefs that the cult believes in.
-Members are not allowed to leave the cult at any time

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Identify the roles of the members of the group

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Identify the roles of the members of the group

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Members believed that the world would face an apocalypse in the mid-1990s, They believed that they were travelers to this planet who were reincarnated and had a mission to fulfill during their time here while they waited to return to their home planet.

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-When a peer was also compliant.
-When the victim was not around and can not be seen or heard.
-When the authority figure is directly watching the teacher.
-When the authority figure participates by observing.
-When the authority figure has higher status.

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What is the role of obedience to authority?

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What is the role of obedience to authority?

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Many groups of friends were in OST so a peer was also compliant. When the victim wasn't around does not apply. One of the authority figures was in a mass suicide so the authority figure was watching everyone. The other authority figure went missing after a mass suicide he was supposed to be involved in so he participated by observing. The authority figures of the group had a higher status than anyone. The strong leaders that most members called dilators in the cult were Joseph Di Mambro and Luc Jouret they were thought of to be the real power behind the cult. The cult was also forced to be very close knit and had no outside knowledge of the cult at the time.

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What factors led to the cohesiveness of the group?

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What factors led to the cohesiveness of the group?

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The strict rules caused cohesiveness along with brainwashing the members into thinking they would be useless in society because of their dependence on the cult.

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-Isolation of the group.
-High group cohesiveness.
-Directive leadership.
-Lack of norms requiring methodical procedures.
-Homogeneity of members’ social background.
-High stress from external threats.

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How does this cult exist as an example of groupthink? 

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How does this cult exist as an example of groupthink? 

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The members of the cult were forced to be extremely isolated by cutting off all ties to family and friends, which is isolation of the group. The group was always together and had no one else with caused high group cohesiveness. The leaders of the group were  Joseph Di Mambro and Luc Jouret which was directive leadership. Lack of norms requiring methodical procedures does not apply. For homogeneity of the member's social backgrounds most of the members who joined this group were "normal" people who were middle class. High stress from external threats did not apply.

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How does the bystander problem play out in each cult or how could it play out in a hypothetical situation? 

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How does the bystander problem play out in each cult or how could it play out in a hypothetical situation? 

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The bystander problem is when many people witness a crime or an accident sometimes nobody calls to report it because everyone assumes somebody else called. The order of the solar temple keeps their members so isolated from the outside world that it is hard for non-members to figure out who is in the cult. But someone maybe a family member/friend who wanted to contact someone from the outside world about the cult they wouldn't because they would assume somebody else already did.

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Compare the OST's obedience to authority and/or group think with what you've seen in Prophet’s Prey

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Compare the OST's obedience to authority and/or group think with what you've seen in Prophet’s Prey

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In Prophet's Prey there was only one main leader, in the order of the solar temple there was two. In Prophet's Prey The leader Warren was a phedophile and raped many children, there is no known rape within the OST. Prophet's Prey's obedience to authority may have been stronger because a lot of members were born within the cult while OST's members came into the group seeming like regular people.

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https://www.britannica.com/topic/Order-of-the-Solar-Temple

https://sites.psu.edu/tesskehoercl/2019/02/14/the-order-of-the-solar-temple/

https://www.soteriainternational.org/the-order-of-the-solar-temple

https://infosect.freeshell.org/infocult/phenomene/English/HTML/doc0008.htm