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Santa Fe, Bill Tate, and me: How an artist became a cult interventionist
Purchase on AmazonJoe SzimhartHow did you get into cult deprogramming? That question always came up when I lectured about the cult problem. This memoir answers that question and more. My cult...
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Workshops for Former Members, Helping Professionals, and Families
February 8, 2020Workshop Day 1 -- Saturday, February 8th -- Recovery Issues After Leaving an Abusive Church. Workshops aimed towards addressing the specific needs of former Jehovah's Witnesses and...
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CultNEWS101 Articles: 1/6/2020
Jehovah's Witnesses, Psychic Scam, Mormon, PreparingAPeople, Mexico, LDSThe Moscow Times: Authorities Raid Russian Jehovah's Witnesses'Authorities raided homes of Jehovah's Witnesses in northern Russia...
View ArticleConference in Northern Colorado: Undue Influence: Manipulation & Exploitation...
This event will have three tracks: professional counselors, law enforcement and one for the general public. Cultic Experts, Trauma Counselors, Domestic Terrorist Analysts, the Greeley PD Gang Unit, the...
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Coercive Control, Cults, and Community Conference
February 22, 2020Nashville, TNEarn 6 CE hours and learn how we can heal and protect our communities.Join host Debby Schriver and Steve Eichel, Dylesia Barner, Lorna Goldberg, Alsandria R., Bill...
View ArticleImmortality: Beliefs and Practices
Immortality: Beliefs and PracticesWHEN: Saturday 1st February 2020, 10am-5pm (registration at 9.30).WHERE: Bush House Lecture Theatre 1, King’s College, London, 30 Aldwych, London, WC2B 4BG.The lure of...
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Breaking Hate: Confronting the New Culture of Extremism
Breaking Hate: Confronting the New Culture of Extremismby Christian PiccioliniPurchase on AmazonFrom a onetime white-supremacist leader now working to disengage people from extremist movements,...
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'I felt incredibly lost' in Dublin after leaving the Jehovah's Witnesses
New to the Parish: Kamila Dydyna arrived from Poland in 2007Sorcha PollakIrish TimesJanuary 7, 2020Three decades have passed since Kamila Dydyna first attended a meeting of the local Jehovah’s Witness...
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CultNEWS101 Articles: 1/7/2020
NXIVM, Nithyananda, Narcissists, Jehovah's Witnesses ET Online: True Crime in 2019: Fyre Festival, NXIVM Cult, Ted Bundy and More"Ever since Serial, the investigative journalism podcast hosted by...
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From Bikram Choudhury to Gurmeet Ram Rahim, why does India have so many...
For the country’s holy men, international notoriety is as common an outcome as global fameBut their influence is hard to shake at home, where people looking for a purpose or cause too often turn a...
View ArticleTedEx: I grew up in the Westboro Baptist Church. Here's why I left - Megan...
Let’s Begin…What's it like to grow up within a group of people who exult in demonizing... everyone else? Megan Phelps-Roper shares details of life inside America's most controversial church and...
View ArticleRaniere opposes victim anonymity at sentencing
Robert GavinTimes UnionJanuary 8, 2020NEW YORK — NXIVM leader Keith Raniere dictated that his victims adhere to 500-calorie-a-day diets, avoid personal grooming and be branded in agony with his...
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Fears of a cult takeover roil a tiny town in northern Maine
The purported cult leader is calling on his followers near and far to move to St. Agatha, whose residents aren't happy about the idea.STEVE COLLINSSUN JOURNALJanuary 10, 2020Residents of a small town...
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'Free game for cults': hotline disappears despite record number of phone calls
Sects are in danger of disappearing under the radar. While the number of reports from concerned family members of potential victims rose to a record high last year, the Sektes signal reporting point...
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My ‘guru’ raped me, Brahma Kumaris devotee tells court
Minderjeet KaurFree Malaysia TodayJanuary 6, 2020KUALA LUMPUR: A devoteee with the Brahma Kumaris spiritual centre told the Session’s Court today that she was raped by a religious teacher in Bangsar in...
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Manchester Coercive Control Survivor Support Group (Cults/Extremist Groups)
"Psycho-educational Support Group for those whom have been affected by a wide variety of cults or extremists groups."Date And Time: January 28, 2020, 6:30 PM – 8:30 PM GMTLocation: Manchester Town...
View ArticleSpecial Report: Secrets of Shambhala
ChapmanNewsDecember 13, 2019"For months, Chapman News has been investigating an interterm travel course at the Shambhala Mountain Center in Colorado. Today we bring you a special report that raises...
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Child molester’s wife sues Mormon church for $9.5 million, says husband is in...
Aimee GreenThe OregonianJanuary 8, 2020The wife of an Oregon man serving a 15-year prison sentence for sexually abusing the couple’s daughter has filed a $9.5 million lawsuit against The Church of...
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My journey into the dark, hypnotic world of a millennial guru Bentinho...
‘Spiritual influencers’ are flourishing online. Their model is built on recruiting eager followers – but what happens when they attract vulnerable people?Oscar SchwartzThe GuardianJanuary 9,2020Towards...
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Satan, the FBI, the Mob-and the Forgotten Plot to Kill Ted Kennedy
During the 1980 presidential campaign, a notorious Hollywood satanist was linked to a plot to murder the third Kennedy brother, uncovered documents show.DAVID GAMBACORTAPOLITICO January 12, 2019David...
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