“Smallville” actress Allison Mack first got involved in the infamous cult NXIVM because she thought co-founder Keith Raniere could help her “become a great actress again.” “I moved to Albany (NXIVM headquarters) to fill that emptiness and find the soul…[Continue Reading...]
A Michigan federal judge sentenced a man convicted of plotting to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer to 16 years in prison Tuesday. Prosecutors said that Adam Fox was the leader of a plot to kidnap the Democratic governor from her…[Continue Reading...]
Lydia Meggs grew up in a restrictive and controlling religious environment along with her Welcome to Plathville older sister, Olivia Plath. Lydia and Olivia chose to leave that lifestyle behind, and it has affected their relationship with their family. Lydia…[Continue Reading...]
THESE are serious accusations. And it is a measure of the inadequacy of our justice system that it has taken a foreign country to indict one of the Philippines' most powerful personalities, described as a shrewd businessman, an influential radio…[Continue Reading...]
I was talking with friends the other day about Alex Jones and his recent personal bankruptcy filing. This was done after a jury and a judge awarded damages against Jones for a total of over $1.4 billion in connection with…[Continue Reading...]
Brainwashing is a term that emerged in the 1950s to explain the changes in belief systems and ideologies exhibited by US soldiers after they were released from detainment in China. Today, psychologists prefer the term coercive persuasion. In recent decades,…[Continue Reading...]
Rose McGowan has found herself in the headlines for a number of reasons throughout her career. In order to fully understand her story and how she has come this far, we must first start with her upbringing. As a child,…[Continue Reading...]
Early this month I came across an interesting news story about a school in Ubon Ratchathani that was accused of forcing its students to join the activities of a Chinese religious sect presented under the guise of dhamma training. According…[Continue Reading...]
Some 10% of prefectural assembly members across Japan have had ties with the controversial religious group known as the Unification Church, a Jiji Press survey showed Sunday. The survey has implications for next spring’s unified local elections, in which such…[Continue Reading...]
The experience I am going to talk about happened about a year ago. Up until that point, the closest I’d come to a cult was on a screen or in my psychology notes, but I’d never been inside one. When…[Continue Reading...]
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