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Kurt Vonnegut’s Trip to See the Guru
In the late Sixties, the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi was at the height of his influence, advising stars like the Beatles and Mia Farrow on Transcendental Meditation. Here, sardonic as ever, the novelist...
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Why People Become Overwhelmed by Conspiracy Theories — and How To Help Them
Commonly driven by financial stress, many people will readily adopt even the wildest conspiracy theories. Disavowing them, on the other hand, often requires the help of social psychologists.Tim...
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Journey to Nowhere, a review
Joseph SzimhartAug 4, 2021A review of Journey to Nowhere by Shiva Naipaul (1980), a journalist account about Jim Jones, his People’s Temple, and the social context for the murder-suicide cult tragedy...
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Meditation Start-UpThreatened by major spiritual organizations
Deb Nicolson, Community ContributorPatchAugust 4, 2021Vipassana, the meditation technique originally developed by the Buddha 2,500 years ago, has traditionally only been taught within specially...
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CultNEWS101 Articles: 8/5/2021 (Pentecostal, Mindfulness, Jehovah's...
Pentecostal, Mindfulness, Jehovah's Witnesses, Child Sexual Abuse, NXIVMRNS: 'I didn't have anyone in my life who I could talk to about it''Religion is not something you expect to be popular on social...
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Police allege Hillsong founder concealed child sex abuse
ROD McGUIRKAPAugust 5, 2021In this Oct. 7, 2014, photo, founder of the Sydney-based global Hillsong Church Brian Houston leaves a Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse...
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Government accused of 'burying' conversion therapy report
Jessica ParkerBBCAugust 5, 2021Research into people's experiences of so-called conversion therapy in the UK has been buried, campaigners say.A report - commissioned over two years ago - hit ministers'...
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Law Beat: Attorneys for ex-NXIVM member claim media 'caused harm'
Robert GavinAlbany Time UnionAugust 2, 2021When a federal judge in Brooklyn imposed a non-prison sentence Wednesday for NXIVM defector Lauren Salzman, it was no surprise. The 45-year-old daughter of...
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What is a cult?
The ConversationAugust 5, 2021 Author Mathew SchmalzProfessor of Religious Studies, College of the Holy CrossDisclosure statementMathew Schmalz is a political independent.PartnersCollege of the Holy...
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CultNEWS101 Articles: 8/6/2021 (Branch Davidians, Australia, Evolution...
Branch Davidians, Australia, Evolution Supplements, NXIVMWaco Tribune-Herald: 10 bodies of Branch Davidians reburied, family seeks DNA testing"The remains of 10 Branch Davidians who died during the...
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Man charged in kids’ deaths face potential death penalty
REBECCA BOONEAPAugust 6, 2021BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Prosecutors in Idaho say they will seek the death penalty against a man in the killing of his wife’s two youngest children and the husband’s previous...
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Inside the Falun Gong Disinformation Machine
VICE News Reports dives into the cultish movement that’s increasingly weaving its anti-China, pro-Trump propaganda into American politics.By VICE NewsAugust 6,.2021The cultish Chinese spiritual...
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There's a religious revival going on in China - under the constant watch of...
Mario Poceski, University of FloridaThe ConversationAugust 6, 2021The Chinese Communist Party is celebrating the 100th anniversary of its founding in 1921. For most of those decades, the party sought...
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CultNEWS101 Articles: 8/7-8/2021 (QAnon, Jehovah's Witnesses, Troubled Teen...
QAnon, Jehovah'sWitnesses, Troubled Teen Industry, ZachariasVice: QAnon's Queen of Canada Is Raising Serious Cash on GoFundMe"A woman whose followers are convinced she's the current Queen of Canada...
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The Dressy Ghosts of Victorian Literature
Realism was exceptionally well suited (heh) for elaborate descriptions of spectral clothing.Matthew WillsJSTOR Dailyvia Wikimedia CommonsJuly 30, 2021Victorian ghosts dressed better than their...
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New movement of religious extremists push ultra-conservative vision in US
Members of ‘Deseret nationalist’ movement accused of harassing other Mormons and posting racist material on social mediaJason WilsonThe GuardianAugust 9, 2021 A new group of religious extremists in the...
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CultNEWS101 Articles: 8/9/2021 (Legal, Love has Won, Clergy Sexual Abuse,...
Legal, Love has Won, Clergy Sexual Abuse, Cult Recovery, PropagandaDenver Post: How did Love Has Won cult leader die? Coroner hopes to learn by testing body for heavy metals"Autopsy report delayed as...
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'Mormon Land': Garments and tattoos and piercings, oh my! 'The Mormon Hippie'...
Sasha Piton has lots to say about why she loves her religion — and why some views and traditions need to be reexamined.Peggy Fletcher Stack David NoyceSalt Lake TribuneAugust 4, 2021The New York Times...
View ArticleDanny Masterson: Scientology doctrine spills into rape case
Jovana Lara and Lisa BartleyABC7 INVESTIGATIONSAugust 7, 2021LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- Eyewitness News has obtained courtroom exhibits from the May preliminary hearing of actor and Scientologist Danny...
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