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When people hear the word cult a certain image tends to burst into their brain. Brainwashed devotees worshipping a crazed narcissist and ready to sacrifice anything for them.

While Jonestown, Heaven’s Gate, and the Solar Temple have given cults a violent reputation, most cults keep a much lower profile.

Cults are everywhere. There's probably a cult in your town. And the tricks they use to lure people in aren’t complicated but rather tried and tested social manipulation tactics that anyone can fall for.

So what is a cult, how do they trap people, and how do people end up believing that volcano alien ghosts are living on their bodies? Well Let’s Find Out.


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Sources:
Losing Reality: On Cults, Cultism, and the Mindset of Political and Religious Zealotry Robert Jay Lifton | https://amzn.to/3eVmCMI
Terror, Love and Brainwashing: Attachment in Cults and Totalitarian Systems Alexandra Stein | https://amzn.to/30JkqTd
Cults in Our Midst Janja Lalich and Margaret Singer | https://amzn.to/30KKQnO
Misunderstanding Cults: Searching for Objectivity in a Controversial Field Benjamin Zablocki and Thomas Robbins | https://amzn.to/30GQOWN
CULTS A Reference Handbook James R. Lewis | https://amzn.to/30IwVyt
Bounded Choice True Believers and Charismatic Cults Janja A. Lalich | https://amzn.to/2OSRt1F
Cults and New Religious Movements: A Reader Lorne L. Dawson | https://amzn.to/39ubwNE

Going clear : HBO Documentary
Cults, Explained | Netflix (by Vox)
Holy Hell : Netflix

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