Abusive controlling relationships like cult brainwashing
The “Battered Woman Syndrome” often cited in court and by helping professionals assisting those victimized within abusive and controlling relationships parallels many of the same features identified...
View Article“‘Sleazy’ Sri” Chinmoy has new book about his “wisdom”
According to an obscure guru some call a “cult leader” living in Jamaica Queens, New York, saying his name can get you to a “very good higher world.” This sage advice and other supposed gems can be...
View Article“Deprogramming” used for “cults” becomes tool to fight terroism
Indonesia has been “deprogramming” terrorists successfully, and such efforts have yielded meaningful results, as formerly “brainwashed” fanatics provide helpful inside information about their...
View ArticleHave destructive cults declined?
By Rick Ross In a recent opinion/editorial New York Times piece titled “The Cult Deficit” columnist Ross Douthat stated, “the cult phenomenon feels increasingly antique, like lava lamps and bell...
View ArticleISIS “death cult” and “Internet brainwashing”?
By Rick Alan Ross A Jordanian online publication Al Bawaba recently ran an article titled “UK girl’s family fears Internet brainwashing.” The report proposed that “powerful jihadists are ‘brainwashing’...
View Article“Cults Inside Out”— a new book by Rick Alan Ross
You have seen them in movies and on TV, but cults are more prevalent than you think and they are armed with strategies that can “brainwash” and gain undue influence over even the most unlikely of...
View ArticleScientology’s victims don’t deserve blame and shame
Leah Remini’s new book is out “Troublemaker: Surviving Hollywood and Scientology.” And once gain people struggle to understand why anyone would join something as seemingly outlandish as Scientology....
View ArticleDave McKay and his “kidney cult” now on YouTube
Cult leader Dave McKay, founder of the self-proclaimed “Jesus Christians” is apparently back in business using the new name “End Time Survivors” preaching on YouTube. Dave McKay, now in his seventies,...
View ArticleAuthor Steven Hassan misleads the media while criticizing others for doing...
Steven Hassan, author of the “The Cult of Trump,” a book that is very critical of those who mislead people, seems to have a problem with the facts himself. Hypocritically, Hassan lambasts President...
View Article“I often wonder if my cousins are members of a cult. They worship Donald Trump.”
CultNews recently received some interesting questions from a reader concerned about President Donald Trump. The reader said, “I often wonder if my cousins are members of a cult. They worship Donald...
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