On Belief: A Podcast About Cults
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On Belief: A Podcast About Cults
We all would like to think that we're immune to being persuaded, but were that true, advertising wouldn't work, the best candidates would always get elected, and our personal relationships would always be equitable. On Belief examines why, with so much information available to us to dissuade us from...
Nýlegir þættir
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Episode 318: Neurodiversity and Cults
In this episode, we discuss:
Why she found herself in a high demand group
How she felt targeted racially and because she was neurodivergen...
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 t...
Episode 316: Cult City Tours
In this episode, we discuss:
How much real estate the church owns in Clearwater
What the Scientologists do there
What happens when D...
Episode 315: Matthew Remski
Matthew shares his wealth of knowledge in this week's episode and we discuss what the heck "Conspirituality" is.
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Episode 314: Janja Lalich
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 inten...
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 servi...
Episode 311: Growing up LDS
In this episode, we discuss:
What kinds of demands are put on children in the church from an early age
How activities were sex segregated<...
Episode 310: Jehovahs Witnesses and Growing Up
My guest joins me to discuss:
Being born into the Witnesses
What Jehovah's Witnesses believe about parenting
What her mother believe...
Episode 309: Church of Christ
In this episode, we discuss:
How the Church of Christ differs from 'mainstream' Christianity
How her parents, wanting her to have some rel...
Episode 308: Conspiracy Theories
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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 a...
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?
Episode 305: Men's Rights Activists
In this episode, we discuss:
How someone finds MRAs online
Where the most active members hang out
What kind of moderation MRA forums...
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 life
What kinds of topics we...
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?
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,...
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
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 Attraction
How...
Episode 227: The Troubled Teen Industry
In this episode, we discuss:
What kinds of kids get sent to these institutions
What kinds of rules are there at these places
What ki...
Episode 226: Robert Kelly
WARNING This episode contains frank discussion of emotional, physical and sexual abuse of minors
In this episode, we discuss:
How Jim bec...
Episode 225: Acts 29: Part 2
In this episode, we discuss:
Why Dana quickly learned it's not ok to question things
What happened when Dana chose a bible passage to disc...
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 r...
Episode 223: Toxic Workplaces
In this episode, we discuss:
Some of the unusual requests made of him in the interview
How forcing candidates to work for free set up a cu...
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 time
Leaving a group when you're not legally free to wor...
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 life
What the belief syste...
Episode 220: The LDS Church Part 2
In this episode, we discuss:
The ways in which the Church operates like Scientology
The pressure put on women
What makes Mormon marr...
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?<...
Episode 218: Narcissists with W. Keith Campbell
In this episode, we discuss:
What preconditions cause Narcissism
How to tell if you're dealing with a Narcissist
Narcissists in the...
Episode 217: Glynn Washington on Heaven's Gate
Glynn Washington and I discuss:
Why he wanted to revisit Heaven's Gate
Why there are people who are sad they missed their chance to join t...
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 highl...
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...
Episode 214: Jon Atack
In this episode, Jon Atack and I discuss:
How he got involved in Scientology
What training Scientologists get on recruitment
Why we...
Episode 213: Overcoming Cult Trauma With Psychedelics
Chelsea Lockwood, author of this Medium Piece (https://humanparts.medium.com/how-i-overcame-cult-trauma-with-psychedelics-4342c03a074c?) Joins me to d...
Episode 212: Abusive Relationships with Donna Anderson
In this episode, we discuss:
How to identify a problematic partner
How sociopaths target and manipulate partners
Why lov...
Episode 211: New Kadampa Tradition
Dr Michelle Haslam (https://newkadampatraditionreport.org) Joins me to discuss how she was seduced by the idea of living in a peaceful intentional com...
Episode 210: The Work
In this episode we discuss:
How the group was not prepared for kids attending outside schools
What kind of weekly schedule the members had...
Episode 209: Tony Ortega
Tony Ortega (http://tonyortega.org) Joins me for an extra long episode to discuss what it's like covering a group like Scientology for so long. In th...
Episode 208: Transcendental Meditation (TM)
Aryeh Siegel was a member of Transcendental Meditation in the 1970s and early 1980s. In this episode, we discuss:
Why TM hides its religious ori...
Episode 207: Steve Hassan
Steven Hassan was once in the Unification Church, helping recruit and spread their thought reform. He was exit counselled and has since dedicated his...