Study identifies brain areas altered during hypnotic trances
BY STANFORD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER ON JULY 28, 2016 COGNITIONYour eyelids are getting heavy, your arms are going limp and you feel like you’re floating through space. The power of hypnosis to alter...
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View ArticleLouis Theroux's My Scientology Movie: Taking On The World's Most Secretive...
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View ArticleReligious freedom or medical neglect? Idaho lawmakers take up faith-healing...
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View ArticleBreak Away Amish
Ohio 'beard-cutting' sectJohnny Mast's book.Charita M. Goshay RepositoryJuly 30, 2016Johnny Mast's parents have not seen their first-born grandchild, nor do they ever intend to see her. They are devout...
View ArticlePolygamous towns gradually becoming conventional American community
NATE CARLISLEThe Salt Lake TribuneJuly 30 2016 More businesses, students and private property have plural-marriage town looking more like mainstream USA. Colorado City, Ariz. • The train is running...
View ArticleGrandson details life in Ohio 'beard-cutting' sect
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View ArticleTurkey: Is the Gülen Organization a Cult?
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View ArticleTHE FAMILY REVIEW - RIDDLE OF A MELBOURNE CULT GOES LARGELY UNANSWERED
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View ArticleAn After School Satan Club could be coming to your kid’s elementary school
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View ArticleAtheists urge Australians not to joke around by putting Jedi as their...
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View ArticleUNICEF cuts off funding to nonprofit linked to alleged cult
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View Article2 polygamous leaders are arrested while awaiting trial on food-stamp-fraud...
ERIN ALBERTYThe Salt Lake TribuneAug 01 2016 Seth Jeffs and John Wayman allegedly violated terms of their pre-trial release.Two leaders in the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of...
View ArticleTeachers Group: The cult-like group linked to a charity that gets UK aid
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View ArticleUtah board manages polygamous property in Canada, and probably will for a...
NATE CARLISLEThe Salt Lake TribuneAugust 01 2016Members of board from Hildale traveling to British Columbia to visit community.Lister, British Columbia • A board in Hildale, Utah, has oversight of 55...
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Psychology TodayJanuary 1979.By Margaret Thaler Singer.Clinical research has identified specific cult-related emotional problems with which ex-members must cope during their reentry into society....
View ArticleCanada's biggest polygamist says he doesn't favor legalizing polygamy
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View ArticleComplaint against Amrita Vidyalaya
June 4, 2013Staff ReporterThe HinduA group of parents on Monday complained to Chief Education Officer A. Gnanagowri that the Amrita Vidyalaya at Nallampalayam in the district was collecting fees above...
View ArticleControversial community defends beliefs
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View Article'Evil, Wicked': What it was like to grow up in one of Australia's most...
WED 3 AUG 2016ABC OnlineBy Ange McCormack Imagine being routinely abused by your parents, administered LSD when you were child, and told your mother was Jesus Christ reincarnated in the female form -...
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