cults

Here's another fascinatingly horrific cult: the Gloriavale community, which has been in the news because of various court cases. First I'd heard of it was today's Guardian review of the BBC TV documentary. It's the usual story: indoctrination, suppression of dissent, forced labour, oppression...

Jason and Jennifer Veras had been together since high school. “We were a loving family. We were a happy family. We barely had any issues throughout our 23 years in a relationship,” Jason said. “Until she brought Liana Shanti into our family.” Everything changed soon after Jennifer started...

I recently started listening to a new podcast called Good Cult that has some interesting things to say about the self-help group Lifespring. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/good-cult/id1643228328 The description of the show: The thing is, I can remember this group being talked about...

I hadn't been previously aware of the existence of this film in all the material I read about Heaven's Gate in the wake of the suicides. The Mysterious Two And it is on YouTube if anybody is interested:

In the early to mid 90's I was invited by a new age traveler friend to visit and stay at Hatfield Court near Leominster in Hertfordshire. It was owned by a famous aging hippy called Jeremy Sandford who wrote Cathy Come Home and other anti-establishment material. He ran the place like a commune...

I was chatting to a Mormon this morning (not dificult i know) anyway i managed to find out that he knew nothing of the "problems" in Salt Lake city despite being for there what with the odd car bomb and recent Mormon masacre int the 1800's discoveries... i wasnt trying to upset him just wanting...

I heard a couple of stories about 'bad' preachers/pastors who made thier churchies (members) do unspeakable things like incest and child rape, swinging, mass suicide and the like. I tried to get more info from people in my church, since they seemed to know so much about it,but it was all hush...

I rememeber seeing a news link on the Homepage about a Heavens Gate survivor but it changed before I had a chance to read it. Does anyone have this link by any chance?