Social and psychological adaptation, structure of individual religiousness and unconscious components of relationsof the followers of the doctrine of Vissarion

Due to large changes in economic, political and spiritual spheres of life ofthe society we can see easing of the influence and authority of traditional forms of religion and occurrence of a great number of newreligious movements. For example, Sergey Torop gets a great popularity as the Teacher of the Community, the founder of the Church ofthe Last Testament, the famous Vissarion. The religious organization of Vissarion - the Church of the Last Testament or Communityof Unified Faith - is officially registered in the Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation. According to the administration of KrasnoyarskTerritory the number of the church members in various cities is from 40 000 to 80 000 people. At this time Vissarion and hisconfidants live in the Kuragino district in the City of the Sun, which is under construction now. Vissarion came here at the beginning ofthe 1990s. The other 3000 believers settled down nearby in such villages as Tyuhtata, Cheremshanka, Zharovsk and so on. During thelast 5 years more than 100 migrants from various cities of Russia have settled here. The results of this research prove that the followersof the doctrine of Vissarion consider themselves as people adapted, accepting the surrounding reality and themselves. They have a highlevel of religious self-consciousness and religion has a compensation function, it fills the dependence and uneasiness of these people.But the unconscious level of this group of religiously oriented people contains an inner conflict, which is shown in low ability to preventstress, instability of many basic requirements of a person. They are greatly interested in magic, in enigmatic and mysterious phenomena,whose perception is influenced more by belief than knowledge. The results of this research also prove the fact that belief in God andexistence of the supreme power is characteristic not only for the followers of the doctrine of Vissarion but for the whole group of peopleexamined by us. Personal peculiarities of the followers of the doctrine of Vissarion are characterized by uneasiness, uncertainty andsubmission. They are mobile, emotional and dynamic in communication that is why they are always satisfied with what they have. Thestudy of the concealed motivation, which lies in the structure of needs, motives, conscious and unconscious relations, proves that thefollowers of Vissarion are characterized by a wide variety of basic needs concerning, first of all, creation, freedom, interest and love.The followers of Vissarion have a frustrated demand for freedom, knowledge, success, communication, and joy. Even such close peopleas mother, father and child arouse their negative emotional experience. The followers of The Church of Last Testament display moreintensively such factors of stress as threat, fear, and irritation.

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