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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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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 228: Conversion Therapy

In this episode, we discuss:How Matt got involved in a Facebook group that 'supported' men who wanted to overcome Same Sex AttractionHow groups recruit vulnerable men to join bootcampsWhat happens at

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Episode 227: The Troubled Teen Industry

In this episode, we discuss:What kinds of kids get sent to these kinds of rules are there at these placesWhat kinds of punishments happenHow everyone is turned into a snitchWhat kinds

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Episode 226: Robert Kelly

WARNING This episode contains frank discussion of emotional, physical and sexual abuse of minorsIn this episode, we discuss:How Jim became aware of the initial allegations against R KellyHow R Kelly t

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Episode 225: Acts 29: Part 2

In this episode, we discuss:Why Dana quickly learned it's not ok to question thingsWhat happened when Dana chose a bible passage to discuss in groupWhat happened to a friend of hers who was asked to l

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Episode 224: Acts 29: Part 1

Dana was looking for a way to heal after a relationship break up. What she found was a high demand group with some questionable ideas about personal this episode, we discuss:What is

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Ep. 9: TM Redux

Do you remember Gina from Season 1? She discussed growing up in the Transcendental Meditation movement during the height of its guru Maharishi Mahesh Yogi's fame. Well, due to some pretty poor sound i

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Episode 223: Toxic Workplaces

In this episode, we discuss:Some of the unusual requests made of him in the interviewHow forcing candidates to work for free set up a culture of precarcityWhat happened when he negotiated his salaryWh

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Episode 222: ISKCON (Hare Krishnas) Part 2

In Part 2, We discuss:What it's like to leave a group and a marriage at the same timeLeaving a group when you're not legally free to work inthe country where you liveHow having a son made Eric re-eval

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Episode 221: ISKCON (Hare Krishnas)

Eric joins me to discuss:How his family beng involved in an LGAT might have primed him to join ISKCON later in lifeWhat the belief system of ISKCON isHow restrictive the lifestyle can beWhy ISKCON is

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Ep. 8: The Cult Pseudo Identity

In this expert episode, we talk to Gillie, a and the director of the UK-based Hope Valley Counselling, which for the past 16 years has provided post-cult counseling to those recovering

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Episode 220: The LDS Church Part 2

In this episode, we discuss:The ways in which the Church operates like ScientologyThe pressure put on womenWhat makes Mormon marriages perilousWhat sealing isWhy if you're sealed to a man, you had bet

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Episode 219: The LDS Church

In this episode, Marie and I discuss:What do Mormons actually believe?What are the expectations put on every member of a Mormon Family?How are Mormon sons and Mormon daughters raised

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Ep. 7: Devastating Disconnections

When Aaron and his twin brother were 4, their mom joined Scientology. The boys grew up with the organization as a main focus in their lives. Their formal education ended after Aaron finished the seven

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Episode 218: Narcissists with W. Keith Campbell

In this episode, we discuss:What preconditions cause NarcissismHow to tell if you're dealing with a in the in as parentsWhat makes N

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Episode 217: Glynn Washington on Heaven's Gate

Glynn Washington and I discuss:Why he wanted to revisit Heaven's GateWhy there are people who are sad they missed their chance to join the departedWhat chilled him to his bone in the interview process

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Episode 216: XXXXXXX

The promise of Large Group Awareness Training is that it's a bootcamp for the mind. You can get a lot of therapeutic benefit out of just a few highly intense days.The problem is, LGATs have always b

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Episode 215: Soka Gakkai International with Juana Castanheira PART TWO

Juana Castanheira, our survivor of SGI contacted me after her episode to ask to further articulate what processing out of a cult looks like.In this episode, we discuss:The shame and guilt of leavingWh

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Ep. 6: The Medium and the Time Machine

When Katharina was 10 years old, her parents packed up their possessions, moved out and joined The Family, a New Age cult that started in Germany and moved around a bit before settling in a Belize j

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Episode 214: Jon Atack

In this episode, Jon Atack and I discuss:How he got involved in training Scientologists get on recruitmentWhy we don't train kids how to spot predators, narcissists, and psychopathsWha

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Episode 213: Overcoming Cult Trauma With Psychedelics

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 Jo3