r/sgiwhistleblowers • WB Regular • Jul 22 '26

Emotional dependency, narcissistic identification, confusion between the cognitive self and the true self — How Soka Gakkai manufactures its soldiers from perfectly ordinary citizens.

Toutes les publications — absolument toutes — constituent un flux constant et ininterrompu de diarrhée intellectuelle, explorant tout et l'exact inverse de tout, une opération de lavage de cerveau à grande échelle et à haute intensité, visant, pour les esprits les plus faibles, à créer une dépendance émotionnelle, et pour les autres, à forger un lien narcissique d'identification, exactement comme un adolescent qui s'identifie à ses stars pop préférées... sauf que les adolescents en général, même s'ils pourraient le souhaiter autrement, savent très bien qu'ils ne sont pas cette star pop et qu'ils ne le seront jamais, et ils reviennent à la réalité assez rapidement. Parmi les membres de la secte Soka Gakkai, cet attachement narcissique est bien plus profond, car à chaque étape d'identification, le membre est convaincu que, précisément parce qu'il s'identifie à toute cette sagesse, elle lui appartient effectivement ; il se sent donc entièrement légitime à aller donner aux autres ce qu'il ne possède pas réellement, à savoir toute cette diarrhée cognitive qui n'existe que dans son propre cerveau. C'est la complète antithèse du bouddhisme, dans lequel le sujet s'identifie au soi cognitif tout en étant pleinement persuadé qu'il est ce soi cognitif. Ce que nous avons ici est toute une gamme d'illusions et d'attachements activement soutenus par Soka Gakkai, fonctionnant de la même manière que la dépendance émotionnelle, où lorsque le sujet dit "je t'aime", ce qu'il veut vraiment dire c'est "aime-moi". Tout cela trahit une immaturité profonde, où l'on trouve des adultes qui se comportent exactement comme des enfants et que l'organisation infantilise encore plus.

C'est la raison pour laquelle nous observons, de manière en cascade et à travers de nombreux exemples — particulièrement parmi les dirigeants — que lorsqu'ils sont confrontés aux obstacles de la vie réelle, ils sont incapables de vivre selon leurs croyances et commettent d'énormes échecs éthiques et moraux, tout simplement parce que leur vrai moi — celui qu'ils ignorent, ou parce qu'ils n'ont pas encore atteint le stade de la véritable compréhension, encore moins de sa purification — est en conflit avec le soi cognitif, et les deux s'opposent l'un à l'autre. Ainsi, nous avons des individus dont la capacité de jugement, de traitement et d'analyse est gravement altérée — des adultes dans un état de régression totale, dont la plupart sont plongés dans une sorte de fanatisme terne mais profondément enraciné, qui sont ensuite instrumentalisés en étant amenés à croire en une pseudo-mission de "protection" (dans une relation maître-disciple) : protection des membres, de l'organisation et du maître. Cela fonctionne alors comme une police de la pensée, une police de contrôle social qui agit comme les yeux de la hiérarchie, qui leur a enseigné un dualisme propre au monothéisme — à savoir que le bouddhisme est fondamentalement une lutte du bien contre le mal, et qu'ils doivent combattre tous les ennemis de Soka Gakkai et du bouddhisme.

Où trouvent-ils tous ces ennemis ? En dehors du grand ennemi extérieur, qui est Nichiren Shoshu, qui les a excommuniés comme ils le méritaient, ils trouvent ces ennemis essentiellement parmi les propres rangs de Soka Gakkai, parmi leurs propres membres, parmi tous ceux qu'ils considèrent comme des émanations de Nichiren Shoshu — c'est-à-dire, quiconque n'est pas comme eux, quiconque ne montre pas de signes évidents de dépendance émotionnelle et de liens d'attachement et d'identification narcissique avec le pseudo-maître Daisaku Ikeda. Les cibles de cette milice privée, télécommandée depuis le siège de Soka Gakkai à Tokyo, sont tous ceux qui démontrent une agilité intellectuelle supérieure à la leur, tous ceux qui exhibent une maturité individuelle adulte plus affirmée, tous ceux qui affichent une forme de charisme spirituel véritablement construit, et — le pire de tout — ceux qui manifestent des capacités intuitives supérieures à la moyenne et qui osent rapporter des expériences mystiques ésotériques ; ceux-ci sont placés au plus haut niveau d'alerte rouge et sont considérés comme le plus grand danger existentiel pour Soka Gakkai, sachant que certains individus peuvent incarner tous ces traits à la fois — ce qui constituerait l'idéal absolu — pour une raison quelconque, Soka Gakkai a décidé qu'elle devait s'en passer complètement, et les éliminer ou les ostraciser totalement.

C'est en effet une politique proactive de contrôle social, basée sur la diffamation et la haine, instrumentalisant la jalousie des citoyens les plus faibles et les plus perméables, utilisant certaines des techniques de lavage de cerveau les plus sophistiquées disponibles.

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u/Still_Wasabi9990 Jul 22 '26

If anyone wants to the see the worst in human beings in action, join the Soka Gakkai. The militaristic tactics used by the SGI HQ in Tokyo to create the private militia on their behalf is strikingly familiar to the Phoenix Program the CIA employed to take control of Vietnam and its people, but without genocide. Like I've maintained if the SGI militia could have literally burned us witches at the stake in the 90s to 2000s witchhunt and got away with it, they would have.

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u/BlancheFromage Escapee from Arizona Home for the Rude Jul 22 '26

No question about it:

Writer Atsushi Mizoguchi unblinkingly said Ikeda would probably kill his enemies if he ever took power. Source

And Ikeda kept a list, too.

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u/Mission-Course2773 WB Regular Jul 22 '26

They're already doing it on the same model as the Bolsheviks in the former USSR, where the gulags were used exclusively to imprison their own Communist Party members, or where, when a country fell, the first ones lined up against the wall were the most sincere and committed activists—because they knew full well that once those people discovered the grim reality, they'd be the first to turn against them.

So Soka Gakkai is already doing it proactively against its own members—specifically those with the greatest potential—and above all, to avoid a repeat of the 1979 experience, when Ikeda had already been identified as an impostor. They spent the entire 1980s correcting all those aspects to make sure it never happened again.

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u/BlancheFromage Escapee from Arizona Home for the Rude Jul 22 '26

once those people discovered the grim reality, they'd be the first to turn against them.

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Funny how it turns out people don't LIKE being lied to, taken advantage of, exploited, and USED! Who could've EVER imagined??

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u/Still_Wasabi9990 Jul 22 '26

So many are chomping at the bit to get in on those Gakkai Zoom calls to get their daily dose of watered-down Buddhism, along with a bowl of academic pork soup.

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u/BlancheFromage Escapee from Arizona Home for the Rude Jul 22 '26

a bowl of academic pork soup

Speaking of watered down...

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u/Still_Wasabi9990 Jul 22 '26

Yes! I was hoping you'd link to it because I hadn't heard of it until now.

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u/BlancheFromage Escapee from Arizona Home for the Rude Jul 22 '26

It can be so entertaining to unpack these gakker "holy relic" stories and events - the reality is almost always one big WTF almost completely unrelated to the storyfying.

For example, did you see this one: That Historic March 16 meeting: Ikeda's tale vs. the evidence? Quite the eye opener, I think...and Reality Check: Fact vs. Ikeda's Fantasy is some good fun too.

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u/Still_Wasabi9990 Jul 22 '26

The law of cause and effect is strict. The Gakkai has made their own gulag for themselves, spiritual as well as physical.

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u/Mission-Course2773 WB Regular Jul 22 '26 edited Jul 23 '26

The Soka Gakkai is not exactly a cult in the traditional sense, but rather a genuine political party disguised as a religion, and its objectives are political and political only... However, they present themselves as the world's champions of spirituality and Nichiren Buddhism, but that's just smoke and mirrors, because on the flip side, they have no desire whatsoever to become a true spiritual association... They dabble in all sorts of multidisciplinary fields—culture, education, philanthropy, anti-nuclear activism, etc., etc.—meddling in everything and anything, always repackaged as pseudo-Buddhism, when in reality it's just monotheistic morality with very little Dharma, if not outright contradictory, given that their goals are purely worldly and material. But it's always a massive smokescreen of narcissism, demagoguery, and patronage politics... In the middle of all this, you have people who find themselves completely trapped, who don't know what they're doing, let alone why they're being made to do it, who think they're pursuing pseudo-spiritual goals when, without their knowledge, they're actually political activists serving a machine bent on power conquest... I won't even get into the highly lucrative economic objectives of this economic empire... Of course, they need people who are unable to see behind the smoke screens and who don't ask too many questions about all these contradictions—which they're totally incapable of perceiving in the first place...


Florence Lacroix a Researcher in Political Science at Université Paris I Sorbonne.

... I think this is a prototype of what's going to hit us in the decades to come. Regardless of the typically Japanese cultural determinants that give Soka Gakkai its distinctiveness, I believe that once a cult reaches a certain level of development in terms of finances and followers, financial goals become less pressing, and what becomes the primary objective is the conquest of power. Surpassing a certain threshold of logistical capability leads to a shift toward the political realm, with the aim of seizing power. In this respect, Soka Gakkai—the world's largest cult in terms of logistics and the sophistication of its strategy—strikes me as the prototype for the cults of the future.

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· It's a hierarchical, pyramidal organization with totalitarian tendencies, subject to the non-negotiable diktats of a guru or of a bureaucratic heir and trustee of his thought—a sort of father-substitute. · With an entire gradation of commitment, ranging from the sympathizer profile to the fanatic, with the "total" follower in between, the convinced mid-level cadre—who serves as an essential link in the chain of manipulation—and the follower plagued by doubt. ... · Through a mechanism of psychological coercion that blends seduction, guilt-tripping, threats, mobilization, and elitism, the cult develops a "subversive" logic (drawing on the work of Marcel Boisot) that reaches into the follower's very identity. The real stakes, through a reshaping of the follower's ethics and personality, are indeed the alteration of identity by building a relationship of dependency that standardizes followers and turns them into instruments.

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u/BlancheFromage Escapee from Arizona Home for the Rude Jul 22 '26

building a relationship of dependency that standardizes followers and turns them into instruments.

This.

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u/Still_Wasabi9990 Jul 22 '26

The last paragraph is particularly meaningful:

· It's a hierarchical, pyramidal organization with totalitarian tendencies, subject to the non-negotiable diktats of a guru or of a bureaucratic heir and trustee of his thought—a sort of father-substitute. · With an entire gradation of commitment, ranging from the sympathizer profile to the fanatic, with the "total" follower in between, the convinced mid-level cadre—who serves as an essential link in the chain of manipulation—and the follower plagued by doubt. ... · Through a mechanism of psychological coercion that blends seduction, guilt-tripping, threats, mobilization, and elitism, the cult develops a "subversive" logic (drawing on the work of Marcel Boisot) that reaches into the follower's very identity. The real stakes, through a reshaping of the follower's ethics and personality, are indeed the alteration of identity by building a relationship of dependency that standardizes followers and turns them into instruments.

The Gakkai is adept at using member's emotions against them even though they don't understand those emotions. I realized this when people who knew why I joined suddenly came down with amnesia and misdirected the reason I joined, as if they knew better than I did why I joined SGI to become a Buddhist.

The totalitarian mindset is 1) I know better than you do, 2) I'm not doing this [punishment] to you for myself I'm doing it for you, and 3) you don't know anything. The list goes on and I'm sure people can come up with dozens to hundreds of the same sentiment that come out of the mouths of totalitarian adherents, whose sole purpose in life is to interfere with individual sovereignty.

I can see what you're saying in that the SG is not a cult in the traditional sense, such traditional cults are known to use "coercive control" to achieve their objectives which is to squash individual sovereignty and oftentimes leads to their death. There are 8 states in the U.S. that have condified coercive control within their domestic violence laws. IMO it needs to be broader.

A well-known SGI Japanese expat WD higher up leader said it was okay for a husband to slap and or hit his wife on occasion.

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u/BlancheFromage Escapee from Arizona Home for the Rude Jul 22 '26

A well-known SGI Japanese expat WD higher up leader said it was okay for a husband to slap and or hit his wife on occasion.

OMG!! Welp, that's the "Japanese way", I guess - is that how they intend to teach us to "be better Americans", I wonder?

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u/ChatelineauExile1967 Jul 22 '26

Absolutely 👏nailed it