Exploring the rise and fall of the Synanon organization — through the eyes of the members who lived it — from its early days as a groundbreaking drug rehabilitation program to its later descent into what many consider a cult.…[Continue Reading...]
“Based on what I’ve been through, I should be in prison or dead,” Cameron Black ’25 said. Born into a cult led by his father, who proclaimed himself to be God, Black’s early life in Sedona, Ariz. was anything but…[Continue Reading...]
A widespread desire for spiritual awakening has revealed massive exploitation by criminal networks across Europe. A major operation, reported on Wednesday, January 17, by the National Police and Customs Surveillance of the Tax Agency has dismantled an extensive criminal organisation.…[Continue Reading...]
Amy Carlson's followers would say she ascended. But in no uncertain terms, the 45-year-old mother of three was dead. And she had been dead for 13 days when sheriff's deputies found her body on April 29, 2021, at the residence that served…[Continue Reading...]
Two cult groups, Neo Black Movement, popularly called Aye, and the National Association of Airlords (also known as Eiye Confraternity), Sagamu chapter, have written letters of apologies to the Akarigbo of Remoland, Oba Adewale Ajayi, asking him and other traditional…[Continue Reading...]
(NewsNation) — Police in Missouri are investigating the mysterious disappearance of six people, all of whom shared a connection to one man: Rashad Jamal. He is a self-proclaimed prophet — and rapper — who runs an online religious group with…[Continue Reading...]
When you think of a cult, you think red flowing regalia, white chalk round the eyes, rituals, sacrifices and chanting in strange language. But real life cults involve a more subtle form of manipulation, psychological control and influence. In most…[Continue Reading...]
BBC’s investigative documentary on TB Joshua is unhinged for many reasons, but one thing is crystal clear, the clergyman’s ministry ticks all the boxes of a cult. A cult is a religious organisation with unusual spiritual and philosophical beliefs. Followers…[Continue Reading...]
A woman born into a religious cult has revealed how priests kept an iron grip on her life - telling her how to dress, think and even how to sit. Amber Powers, 47, was born into a cult based in Indiana in…[Continue Reading...]
What if one book had the power to plunge the world into a terrifying obsession with satanic cults? Michelle Remembers, a 1980 memoir by a young Canadian woman and her psychiatrist, Dr. Lawrence Pazder, did just that. Marketed as the…[Continue Reading...]
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