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Episode 318: Neurodiversity and Cults

In this episode, we discuss:Why she found herself in a high demand groupHow she felt targeted racially and because she was decision making played into why she stayedWhat it was like

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Episode 317: Unification Church

In this episode, we discuss:* The basic beliefs of the Unification Church* What it's like for kids* What are the rules, and are they different by gender?* What is the companion book to the Bible that

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Episode 316: Cult City Tours

In this episode, we discuss:How much real estate the church owns in ClearwaterWhat the Scientologists do thereWhat happens when David Miscavige comes to townThe influence the church has over local pol

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Episode 21 Sunday Service Liar's Communion

Jim Jones had a gift for recognizing and cultivating a person’s capacity for magical thinking or the belief that unrelated events are connected by invisible, supernatural threads. Those who followed J

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Episode 20 Sunday Service Leave Room for the Holy Ghost

The paranormal healing ministry drew new members into the movement with Jim Jones’ promises of supernatural support for the cause. The divine gifts physically drained him, he could feel people’s sickn

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Episode 19 Sunday Service Hands Clasped

Welcome to the Sunday Service, a 3-part immersive experience exploring Jim Jones’ paranormal ministry and the mystery of the nine gifts of the holy spirit. Your first visit to Peoples Temple will invo

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Episode 315: Matthew Remski

Matthew shares his wealth of knowledge in this week's episode and we discuss what the heck is.Find Matthew's podcast here: Matthew's website here: matthewrems

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Episode 18 Where there's smoke

Denise was three years old when her family first joined the Peoples Temple. Like so many early childhood memories, obscured by the lenses of time or augmented by repeated viewings of the family photo

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Episode 314: Janja Lalich

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Episode 17 He's Able

Music was often peoples first, and last impression of Peoples Temple. From the moment you walked into a temple service, the music created a certain atmosphere. The voices of the choir lifted the spiri

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Episode 313: Bikram Yoga

In this episode, we discuss:* What drew her to yoga* What it costs to do the 2 month intensive* What happens at the 2 month intensive* Why vegans began to eat burgers* Why white instructors spoke in p

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Episode 312: The Salvation Army

In this episode, we discuss:What are the core beliefs of the Salvation Army?Is it really organized like a Military?What are services like for kids?What is the leadership path like?What kinds of ceremo

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Episode 311: Growing up LDS

In this episode, we discuss:What kinds of demands are put on children in the church from an early ageHow activities were sex segregatedWhat rules her parents followedWhat happens to children of divorc

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Episode 310: Jehovahs Witnesses and Growing Up

My guest joins me to discuss:Being born into the WitnessesWhat Jehovah's Witnesses believe about parentingWhat her mother believed about parentingWhat an average week looks like for a Jehovah's Witnes

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Episode 16 MK United

Jim Jones will be remembered as the notorious cult leader who betrayed his followers trust and orchestrated their deaths. Join us as we examine the fabric of his ideals and beliefs stained by the bloo

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Episode 15 The Nuclear Family

Irrational fear opens the floodgates of our imaginations unleashing upon ourselves the monsters and demons we let live in our subconscious. In 1962 Jim Jones leaves his church in Indiana behind to tra

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Episode 14 Evangelical Profit

I believe in Jim Jones. Many of you have seen the photograph. An elderly woman dressed in her Sunday best with a resolute, if not revolutionary sparkle in her eye. But what did Jim Jones believe? Jim

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Episode 309: Church of Christ

In this episode, we discuss:How the Church of Christ differs from 'mainstream' her parents, wanting her to have some religious education, inadvertently changed her trajectory in lifeWh

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Episode 13 God's Highway

Welcome back. All this time I was searching for the truth, I ignored the psychedelic elephant in the room. Former members of the temple, the survivors, have as many questions about what happened in Jo

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Episode 308: Conspiracy Theories

Subscribe to Right Richter here: Will on The Daily Beast: Sommer has been covering conspiracy theories since the inception of P

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Episode 307: The Human Potential Movement

In this episode we discuss:What was Esalen?How did the Human Potential Movement begin?What made the Human Potential Movement so groups sprung out of that movement?Which forms of untest

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Episode 306: Gender Critical Movement

In this episode, we discuss:What is the Gender Critical movement?What are the fundamental beliefs vs what they claim the beliefs are?Where did my guest find out about Gender Criticism?Are most of the

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Episode 305: Men's Rights Activists

In this episode, we discuss:How someone finds MRAs onlineWhere the most active members hang outWhat kind of moderation MRA forums have Can you see people being radicalized in real time?What drove my g

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Episode 304: Independent Fundamental Baptists

On this episode, we discuss:What it's like growing up with a fire and brimstone church at the center of your lifeWhat kinds of topics were taught in Sunday home schoolingWhat a child

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Episode 303: Zendik Farm

In this episode we discuss:What is an intentional community?What made Helen decide to join Zendik?What was it like moving in?What are the major beliefs of the group?What was the Zendik approach to sex

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Episode 302: The Inner Matrix

Guest Katie Mount joins me to discuss her time both studying The Inner Matrix and joining the company, working for its founder.In this episode, we discuss: What brought her to study The Inner Matrix W

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Episode 301: 60s Political Cults

In this episode, we explore 3 political cults: The Weather Underground, Ayn Rand's Determinists and The JOhn Birch Society

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Season 4: Demiworld Outtakes & Highlights

A huge thank you from Kelly and myself for making Demiworld such a fun romp. We have enjoyed 4 seasons of crazy crimes, strange tales, and mysterious events. But now with the lockdowns, finding time t

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Episode 33: Literary Mysteries

Cyndi and Kelly look at two literary mysteries in the seventh episode of season 4. Cyndi takes a deep dive into who the author of Shakespeare's plays really was, and Kelly examines the 11-day disappea

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Ep. 10: You Don't Have to Tell Them Anything

On the final episode of Generation Cult, we wrap up Season 2 with a conversation with Meghan, an ex-Jehovah's Witness. She left as a young adult when the mental anguish she experienced within the orga

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Episode 32: Maritime Mysteries

Episode 32 takes Kelly and Cyndi to the sea in maritime mysteries. Kelly takes a look at the bizarre case of Natalie Wood's drowning and Cyndi takes us to the air in the inexplicable case of the disap

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Episode 228: Conversion Therapy

In this episode, we discuss:How much real estate the church owns in ClearwaterWhat the Scientologists do thereWhat happens when David Miscavige comes to townThe influence the church has over local pol3