This week, we went live and had some great questions about many different aspects of Scientology and QAnon, my uni studies and cult principles in… Read More »Critical Q&A #298 – Live
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In this clip, I breakdown how academics can give groups like Scientology air cover by providing intellectual justification for their existence as “new religious movements,” ignoring the abusive and problematic aspects of destructive cults. Enjoy!
Read More »How Cults Get Away with So Much
In this podcast clip, I describe why academics are referring to destructive cults as “new religious movements” to try to take the edge off the “cult” moniker, but why this is inaccurate and ultimately, a form of apologia that doesn’t help anyone but the cults themselves by giving them an air of legitimacy they don’t deserve. Enjoy!
Read More »Why Saying Cults are “New Religious Movements” is Wrong
This week, we talked in some detail about the subject of love and how love is corrupted in destructive cults and what real love is… Read More »Critical Conversations 11.13.20 – Love and Cults
This week we did our Critical Q&A show live and had a lot of fun answering a wide-ranging series of topics from Scientology to NXIVM… Read More »Critical Q&A #287 – Live
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People honestly and very wrongly believe that “you have to be an idiot to get into a cult.” The fact is that recruitment into these groups is done almost exclusively through emotional manipulation that bypasses a person’s IQ or critical thinking. In this short clip, I break down how this works. Enjoy!
Read More »Cults are About Feeling, Not Thinking