Inside the four walls of therapists’ offices, patients are supposed to feel safe and at ease as they open up about their innermost feelings. Anne Craig wasn’t exactly a therapist, yet she still gained her clients’ trust and allegedly “brainwashed”…[Continue Reading...]
Most of us think we’d never fall for a cult. We imagine the followers of Jim Jones as naïve, brainwashed, or broken people who “drank the Kool-Aid.” But what if that’s not the truth at all? In this eye-opening episode,…[Continue Reading...]
In August 1953, in the aftermath of the Korean War, Robert Jay Lifton’s wife called to tell him about the repatriation of some US soldiers from a Chinese prison. There were reports that the freed soldiers were returning muted and…[Continue Reading...]
The full details of a 70-year-old female shaman’s brutal murder of her niece by exposing her to prolonged charcoal heat have been revealed. The shaman is believed to have manipulated her niece and other family members through long-term brainwashing, making…[Continue Reading...]
Robert Jay Lifton, a psychiatrist who peered into some of the darkest corners of contemporary history, including Hiroshima, the Holocaust and the Vietnam War, in search of lessons about individual and collective consciousness, died on Thursday at his home in…[Continue Reading...]
OSAKA (TR) – Earlier this year, law enforcement arrested female fortuneteller Yoshie Hamada, 63, who calls herself “the Creator,” for allegedly instigating two of her male followers to commit suicide by drowning in Wakayama Prefecture five years ago. The trial…[Continue Reading...]
Hearings for an Australia-first parliamentary inquiry into cults wrapped up on 31 July after submissions from Victorians all over the state, including one influential case from the Yarra Ranges. The inquiry will investigate the recruitment methods and impacts of cults…[Continue Reading...]
An acupuncturist couple has been jailed after 'brainwashing' a younger patient into having sex with them. The Queensland couple, Arthur Cunningham, 69, and his wife Sheena Cunningham, 55, tricked the victim, in her 20s, into believing sex with them was…[Continue Reading...]
My first ever blog post here will be an attempt to share and explain my personal journey into the field of cultic studies and cult related activism/work that I have recently become more publicly involved with, especially in regards to…[Continue Reading...]
On June 3, an anonymous accuser of Sean "P. Diddy" Combs wrapped up her testimony during the rapper's sex trafficking trial. The woman, who goes by the pseudonym Mia, claimed she was sexually abused by Diddy throughout her term of…[Continue Reading...]
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