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Meet the Guy Who Says He Mostly Just Eats Air
As one of the world's foremost "Breatharians," Nicolas Pilartz claims that sunlight, water and one meal a week is all he needs.MFMatthew ForbesVice February 9, 2021Breatharianism is a movement that...
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Missing Athens County teen escapes reported sex abuse, 'cult'-like family
Cole Behrens and Ben PetersAthens Messenger/Athens NEWS Associate EditorsMay 19, 2021 Updated May 21, 2021When Serah Bellar ran away from her Amesville home in April 2020, few questioned her...
View ArticleInside the Secret Society That Inspired the New Age Movement
Blending meditation and astrology with Saturn worship and “sex magic,” they survived the Nazis and remain one of the world’s most mysterious sects.Haley RayNarrativelyDecember 12, 2018Figures draped in...
View ArticleInside the Spirituality 'Cult' Whose Members Allege Sexual and Financial...
Mark WildingViceLONDON, GBMay 4, 2021Starving hungry and near delirious from lack of sleep, Bernice Van Eck stumbled through the densely packed trees in the forest near Mount Fuji. For three days and...
View ArticleBook Review: Dianetics and L. Ron Hubbard Exposed
Book Review: Dianetics and L. Ron Hubbard ExposedMiles FergusonCult ObserverCultic Studies Journal, 1994, Volume 11, Number 1, pages 123-125.“Dianetics and L. Ron Hubbard Exposed"A Piece of Blue Sky:...
View ArticleInside the magic sex cult recruiting from Facebook meme pages
Angel ArcherOctober 5, 2016Daily Dot“Cult” is pejorative. It’s used to characterize new religious movements as abusive, antisocial, and authoritarian. Religious groups don’t typically self-identify as...
View ArticleWho Was Anton LaVey? An L.A. Exhibit Sheds Light on Satanism's Black Pope
GWYNEDD STUART L.A. WeeklyOCTOBER 25, 2017In the spring of 1967, inside Jayne Mansfield's Pink Palace on Sunset Boulevard in Holmby Hills, a paparazzo named Walter Fischer took a series of photographs...
View ArticleCharles Manson's Science Fiction Roots
How L. Ron Hubbard and Robert Heinlein influenced a murderous cult.Jeet HeerNew RepublicNovember 21, 2017In 1963, while a prisoner at the federal penitentiary at McNeil Island in Washington state,...
View ArticleSatanism and The Rolling Stones: 50 Years of 'Sympathy for the Devil'
The IndependentDecember 5, 2018When Mick Jagger sang ‘Just call me Lucifer’, pop music changed forever, but the tragedy of Altamont lay ahead, writes Simon HardemanFifty years ago this week Mick Jagger...
View ArticleThe rise and rise of Wicca
The astonishing growth of witchcraft in the U is a little-understood phenomenonMassimo IntrovigneMercatornetDecember 5, 2018By one count, there are now more self-identifying witches in the United...
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Lawsuit Over Chicago Public School Transcendental Meditation Program Can Go...
EUGENE VOLOKHReason May 25, 2021From Separation of Hinduism from Our Schools v. Chicago Public Schools, decided Friday by Judge Matthew F. Kennelly (N.D. Ill.):From 2015 to 2019, students and teachers...
View ArticleAfter students report being pressured to participate in ‘weird, uncomfortable...
The Associated PressMassLiveMay 26, 2021Boston schools will not work with a nonprofit after an independent report found the director pressured students to participate in uncomfortable counseling...
View ArticleBoston Student Advisory Council: Investigative Report
Investigative Report (PDF)May 25, 2021"... The 10-page report, released Monday, confirmed many of the allegations made during a news conference in March by six students, including the then-student...
View ArticleIn Defense Of Mother Teresa: Why She Is A Saint, Not A 'Cult Leader'
Clemente LisiReligion UnpluggedMay 23, 2021Religion Unplugged believes in a diversity of well-reasoned and well-researched opinions. This piece reflects the views of the author and does not necessarily...
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CultNEWS101 Articles: 5/27/2021 (Former Member Stories, The Missionaries of...
Former Member Stories, The Missionaries of Charity, Westboro Baptist Church, Vatican, Pope Pius XIIForbes: From Growing Up In A Cult To Building A 7-Figure Business"Julia McCoy is the CEO of Express...
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The Turning: The Sisters Who Left
"Thousands of women gave up everything to follow Mother Teresa, joining her storied Catholic order, the Missionaries of Charity. But some found that life inside this fiercely private religious order...
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Ramdev: Doctors furious over yoga guru's insulting Covid remark
BBC NewsMay 25, 2021Doctors in India have hit out against yoga guru Baba Ramdev over his controversial statements against modern medicine.He recently said that tens of thousands died of Covid after...
View ArticleIdaho Couple Face Murder Charges in Deaths of Children and a Former Spouse
Lori Vallow and Chad Daybell, the mother and stepfather of Tylee Ryan and Joshua Vallow, were indicted by a grand jury this week. They drew international attention for their so-called doomsday...
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Love has Won cult member Christopher Royer appears in court
IndependentMay 26, 2021Love has Won member Christopher Royer appeared in court to challenge a police search warrant executed after the death of “Mother God” Amy Carlson.Mr Royer is facing charges of...
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CultNEWS101 Articles: 5/28/2021
Re-evaluation Counseling, Youth On Board, Moral Re-Armament (MRA), Dove Outreach, Legal, NXIVMMassLive: After students report being pressured to participate in 'weird, uncomfortable and cult-like'...
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