LIZ Cameron, 32, is a health sector project manager and author. she lives in Canberra, Australia. “As I walked out of the bookshop, a smiling woman approached. She was a foreign student studying Australian culture, she explained, and asked if…[Continue Reading...]
Harrison Hill was "gobsmacked" when he began talking to the source of inspiration for his forthcoming nonfiction debut — and that "astonishment" only grew as he kept researching the cult she recalled escaping from. In The Oracle's Daughter: The Rise…[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...]
Leah Remini has certainly come a long way since her days as a young girl growing up in Brooklyn. The brash actor has worn a slew of different hats since shooting to fame in the '90s: going from beloved sitcom…[Continue Reading...]
Parvati Shallow was learning survival skills long before she just stepped on the Cook Islands for her first appearance on Survivor in 2006. In her new memoir, Nice Girls Don’t Win, Shallow — who would go on to play Survivor…[Continue Reading...]
Part 2 of the TED Radio Hour episode Escaping the modern world and your noisy mind Sarah Edmondson joined NXIVM hoping to find her purpose... until she realized it was a dangerous cult. She shares the harrowing story of her…[Continue Reading...]
Young Christians are being left vulnerable to deceptive cult recruiting across Melbourne, an expert warns. A Victorian parliamentary inquiry is examining whether coercive control tactics used by cults and fringe groups should face criminal sanctions. The inquiry comes as groups…[Continue Reading...]
As 19-year-old Sara Glass sat across from a stranger in a hotel lobby in downtown Manhattan, she knew the rest of her life would be decided for her. Both raised in the Orthodox Gur sect of Hasidic Judaism, the pair…[Continue Reading...]
Hollywood actor Luke Evans has spoken about reaching a "dark place" during his teenage years when he was experiencing difficulties growing up as gay and being a member of the Jehovah's Witness community. In the third episode of the brand…[Continue Reading...]
Move over, Sister Wives! The 13th Wife: Escaping Polygamy is the “ripped from the headlines” crazy true story of Rena Chynoweth (Felicity Huffman), who was forced to become the thirteenth wife of Ervil LeBaron (Eric Johnson), the head of a…[Continue Reading...]
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