You may be familiar with the infamous Heaven's Gate cult who orchestrated a mass suicide in 1997 in the hopes of hopping on a spaceship to embark on a new life. But before the traumatic event, some of the cult…[Continue Reading...]
On this episode of The AUXORO Podcast, Rick Alan Ross and Zach discuss how destructive cults control, manipulate, and sometimes kill their followers, how someone like Tom Cruise could be hooked into Scientology, some of the most effective methods he…[Continue Reading...]
Streaming now online at Tubi. This is the most recently released documentary about cult leader Keith Raniere and his seminar selling brainwashing cult known as NXIVM. "Branded and Brainwashed: Inside NXIVM" examines the cult and its leader from multiple perspectives…[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...]
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