TAKAMATSU (Kyodo) -- A Japanese Buddhist nun has stepped forward to allege that she was brainwashed and sexually violated by the chief priest of a major sect's temple for over a decade, shocking the country's religious establishment. The news made…[Continue Reading...]
A woman has candidly lifted the lid on what it was really like growing up in the Church of Scientology's Sea Organization. Katherine Spallino, who is now based in Minnesota, appeared on a recent episode of the Cults To Consciousness…[Continue Reading...]
Stay-at-home-daughters is often used a quirky description for a young woman who can live a lavish lifestyle off her family's wealth rather than get a job of her own - but it turns out, the term has a much darker…[Continue Reading...]
A woman born into a church she describes as a “cult”, where she claims she was sexually abused and grew up not being allowed to wear makeup, cut her hair or use technology, is now not of any faith and…[Continue Reading...]
A New Zealand woman who as a child was sexually abused by a member of a secretive sect under investigation by the FBI says the religious group's leaders spent three years trying to get the man to admit guilt before…[Continue Reading...]
Trans woman Yaya DeCloud, 42, spent the first 19 years of her life living in a commune ruled by religious extremism and cut off from society by her cult leader father. Living in the compound of 30 people known as the 'DeCloud…[Continue Reading...]
Author, speaker, and confidence coach Victoria Reynolds spoke with Senora Scott about her latest book and shared advice for others dealing with difficult circumstances. She shared a bit of her story: “I had real issues with self-confidence for the longest…[Continue Reading...]
Looking inside Landark Education and The Forum, taking it apart, examined by an insider who spent years inside Landmark. Watch this interview with a long-time Landamrk Education Forum insider who spent many years in the "belly of the beast." Former…[Continue Reading...]
Most people of sound and reasonable mind probably believe they’re too switched-on to fall prey to being indoctrinated into a cult, but Michelle Pfeiffer ended up falling in with a very unusual group without even realising until long afterwards that…[Continue Reading...]
LOS ANGELES (CN) — A lawsuit filed by an unnamed woman against the church of Scientology and some of its officials over the alleged sexual abuse of a minor and the arrangement of a forced marriage between the minor and…[Continue Reading...]
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