Tooth-and-nail battle of a PE father with 'cult' over kids
Herald liveSeptember 17, 2016Angela Daniels Dad spends thousands trying to ‘save’ children from rigid religious sectA Port Elizabeth father believes the rigid religious sect he grew up in is trying to...
View ArticleIn 2016, the 'First Legal Ayahuasca Church' Got Shut Down. Was It a Scam-or a...
A Canadian and a Brit had a vision to serve mind-expanding drugs in America.Atlas ObscuraBy Sarah Laskow SEPTEMBER 16, 2016 When people drink ayahuasca tea, the psychoactive, plant-based Amazonian...
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Live Forever
A weekend watching the promise of immortality get sold and bought at the Revolution Against Aging and Death FestivalKate KnibbsStaff Writer, The Ringer Stepping onto San Diego's Town & Country...
View ArticleWhat is shunning and why is it used?
Dave Dormer, CBC News Sep 18, 2016 A recent court decision has brought the rarely used practice of religious shunning into the spotlight.The Alberta Court of Appeal decided to allow the Court of...
View ArticleYour memories of important events are probably wrong
Jennifer TalaricoThe ConversationSeptember 19, 2016Story highlightsA flashbulb memory is when you capture an entire scene and hold on to it indefinitelyThey're often formed after sudden, dramatic...
View ArticleGabriele Amorth dead: Harry Potter-hating exorcist 'spoke to the Devil every...
Amorth claimed to have carried out up to 160,000 exorcisms since his 1985 appointment.· International Business Times UKBy Ludovica IaccinoSeptember 19, 2016 The Catholic Church has paid homage...
View ArticleRussian Supreme Court bans Aum Shinrikyo doomsday cult
September 20, 2016TASSAum Shinrikyo has been declared a terrorist organization.“The court accepted the request of the Russian Prosecutor General’s Office to recognize Aum Shinrikyo as a terrorist...
View ArticleLandmark Forum: Mysterious training course coming to your office
Emma Reynoldsnews.com.auSEPTEMBER 20, 2016What is The Landmark Forum?Emma Reynoldsnews.com.auIT’S a personal development course that promises “positive, permanent shifts in the quality of your life —...
View ArticlePaedophile cult leader says he's had human faeces and urine thrown at him in...
· Cult leader William Kamm was released from jail after serving nine years · He was jailed for raping two teenage girls while he led his secretive sect· The convicted sex offender...
View ArticleHow I Created A Cult
The Story of Andrew Cohen and EnlightenNext A 6-part documentary exclusively on Conscious 2Episodes weekly starting 16th October Andrew Cohen is one of the most controversial spiritual teachers of the...
View ArticleMissionaries are struggling to work under new Russia law banning proselytizing
The Washington PostBy Michael Alison ChandlerSeptember 20, 2016The Mormon church reassigned 65 missionaries who were called to serve in Russia, and is renaming others “volunteers” who will focus on...
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Christian fundamentalist schools 'performed exorcisms on children and beat...
Exclusive investigation reveals serious concerns about how children taught at Accelerated Christian Education in the 1980s, 1990s and 2000s were treated, as ex-pupils claim exorcisms were performed on...
View ArticleCultNEWS101 magazine on Flipboard
We started the CultNEWS101 magazine on Flipboard last year, as of today, we have posted 5000 articles.https://flipboard.com/@cultnews101/cultnews101-slaganlny
View Article'You can sleep tonight knowing the Klan is awake.' Fliers like these are...
The Washington PostBy Derek HawkinsSeptember 20, 2016Jaimi Hajzus woke up Saturday morning to a string of worried texts.Friends in her hometown of Coudersport, Pa., said someone had gone house to house...
View ArticleRussia's High Court Bans Japanese Doomsday Cult Group
RadioFreeEurope/RadioLibertySeptember 20, 2016The Russian Supreme Court has branded the Japanese doomsday cult group Aum Shinrikyo a terrorist organization.The Moscow court banned the infamous group on...
View ArticleThe religious sect that became baseball's answer to the Harlem Globetrotters
The GuardianRyan FergusonWednesday 21 September 2016In recent years, extravagant facial hair has become increasingly popular in Major League Baseball. The fad likely began with the 2004 Red Sox, as...
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Landmark Forum: Mysterious training course coming to your office
SEPTEMBER 20, 2016news.com.auEmma Reynolds news.com.au@emmareynIT’S a personal development course that promises “positive, permanent shifts in the quality of your life — in just three days”.The...
View Article'I'm a Person, and I Deserve More': What It's Like to Escape a Polygamous Cult
In Utah, members of the Kingston Clan blend into contemporary society—but the Mormon group openly practices polygamy and incest and exploits its members financially. We spoke to former members to...
View ArticleInside the Rise & Fall Of A 1970s Upper West Side Cult
GothamistBY JAKE OFFENHARTZ IN ARTS & ENTERTAINMENTSEP 21, 2016 On the evening of July 29th, 1985, members of a mysterious group called the Sullivan Institute broke into and terrorized an...
View Article'Paper terrorism' case leads to charge against Freeman on the Land member
45-year-old Alberta man charged with intimidation of a peace officerBy Mack Lamoureux, Wallis Snowdon, CBC News Sep 21, 2016 For the first time in Canada, a man claiming to be a Freeman on the Land has...
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