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ABC
AA (Alcoholics Anonymous)
AA (Alcoholics Anonymous) Defense
AA - Is AA(Alcoholics Anonymous) a Cult? An Old Question Revisited
Adidam Ala Adui
Adidam - The Guru Papers
Adidam - Today Show on Da Free John, 1985
Adidam Ala Adui - Today Show on Da Free John, 1985
Aesthetic Realism
Aesthetic Realism - Brooklyn Assemblyman’s Earmarks Are Political Surrealism
Aesthetic Realism - Former Member’s Statement about Aesthetic Realism
Al Qaeda (The Base)
Al Qaeda - Cult Mind Control Techniques May Have Fueled Terrorists
Al Qaeda - John Walker: American Indoctrinated with Cult Mind Control Techniques by Taliban
Al Qaeda - Letter from Steve Hassan to President George W. Bush on the ‘American Taliban’
Al Qaeda - Statement from Steve Hassan on the Tragic Events of Sept. 11, 2001
Al Qaeda - Steve Hassan Defines Approach to Working With Jailed Terrorists
Al Qaeda - The Devil and John Walker
Al Qaeda - Warning: Cults are Recruiting the Vulnerable
Alamo Foundation
Alamo - FBI, State Police Raid Tony Alamo Compound
Alamo - Federal grand jury indicts minister
Alamo - Girls taken in Alamo raid stay in state custody
Alamo - Steve Hassan Issues Press Release on Alamo Raid
Alamo - The Barely Legal Empire of Tony Alamo
Alamo - The Ravening Wolf: Catholic-Hating Organization Reemerges
Aleph/Aum Shinrikyo
Amma - Ammachi aka the "Hugging Saint"
Amma Bhagwan / Kalki Bhagavan / World Oneness Community
Amway - Motivational Organization
Amway - Multilevel Marketing Plans
Amway - Quixtar BITE analysis · Behavior Control
Amway - Quixtar BITE analysis · Emotional Control
Amway - Quixtar BITE analysis · Information Control
Amway - Quixtar BITE analysis · Thought Control
Ananda Church of Self-Realization
Ananda - The Guru Papers: Masks of Authoritarian Power
Apostles of Infinite Love
Apostles - Religious Leader Charged
Aquarian Concepts Community
Atma (Isis Holistic) Center
Attleboro sect
Avatar Course/Stars Edge International
Black Hebrews
Black Hebrews - Black Hebrews hope Eurovision attention will improve their plight
Black Hebrews - Maryland Cult Task Force: Testimony of Frantz Wilson in support of House Joint Resolution 22
Black Hebrews - The shadowy Kingdom of Yah turns 30
Bob Meehan Drug Rehab Programs
Brahma Kumaris
Branch Davidians
Branch Davidians - Branch Davidians caught in yet another power struggle
Branch Davidians - On this day: Waco cult siege ends with inferno
Branch Davidians - Steve Hassan Harvard Lecture
Branch Davidians - Waco: Before and After
Branch Davidians - Waco: Experts Fault Federal Tactics
Branch Davidians - WACO: The Government’s Failure to Understand Destructive Cults
Brother Julius
Brother Julius - Connecticult Cult Leader One of Many ‘Messiahs’
Brother Julius - Cult leader Brother Julius dies at 71
Bruderhof
CBJ
Centers of Light - Order of Christ Sophia
Centers of Light - Church Group Ignites Controversy In Quincy
Centers of Light - Families: Religious Group Uses Cult-Like Methods
Centers of Light - Open Letter to Odyssey Study Group
Chen Tao
Chen Tao - God’s Salvation Church: Past, Present and Future
Ching Hai
Christian Science
Chung Moo Doe (new name Oom Young Doe)
Church of Agape
Church of Bible Understanding / COBU
Church of Bible Understanding/COBU - Maureen Griffo – Sociology of Gender – Summer, 2000
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints - Mormons
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints - Exmormon Foundation Annual Conference
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints - The BITE Model Applied Toward Mormonism
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints - The BITE Model Applied Toward Mormonism’s Two-Year Missionary Program
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints - The Mormons (PBS)
Church Universal and Triumphant
Church Universal and Triumphant - El Morya, You Have No Power
Church Universal and Triumphant - Kolman
Circle of Divine Unity
Coaches Training Institute (CTI)
Coaching Industry
Commercial Cults
Community of Jesus
Community of Jesus - Community of Jesus leader implicated in 1990s abuse probe
Community of Jesus - Mothers of invention
Concerned Christians
Creativity Momement (formerly known as World Church of the Creator)
Creciendo en Gracia
Creciendo en Gracia - He says he is Christ — and he lives here
Creciendo en Gracia - Jesus Redux
Creciendo en Gracia - Minister Claims To Be Second Coming Of Christ
DEF
Dahn Yoga - Dahn World, Dahn Hak, Tao Fellowship
Dahn Yoga - Body, Brain and Wallet
dahn yoga - Cult program in NYC schools
dahn yoga - Dahn Hak BITE analysis
dahn yoga - Dahn Yoga Centers Accused of Questionable Business
dahn yoga - Dahn Yoga stretches into controversy
dahn yoga - Former Dahn Masters File Mass Law Suit
Dahn Yoga - Fraud, Racketeering Action Filed Against Dahn Yoga
dahn yoga - Open letter from Dahn Hak “baby” master to YEHA
dahn yoga - Press Statement by Jiha Kim
Dahn Yoga - Rolling Stone Magazine: The Yoga Cult
Dahn Yoga - ShinDongA 39 Page Anti-Dahn Hak Article Prompts Violent Retaliation February 22nd, 2010
dahn yoga - Student: UNM club recruiting for cult
Dawn Horse Communion/Adidam
Dawn Horse Communion/Adidam - The Guru PapersMasks of Authoritarian Power
Ecclesia
Eckankar
Elan Vital
Elan Vital - Blinded by the Light
Emin
Emin - Essay about Emin from Former Member
Emissaries of Divine Light
Endeavor Academy
EnlightenNext / Andrew Cohen
Equinox International
Equinox International - Shaking the Money Tree
False Memory Syndrome - Repressed Memory Debate
False Memory Syndrome - Statement from Linda Chapman of The Wounded Healer Journal
Falun Gong
Falun Gong - Editorial: Falun Gong
Falun Gong - Epoch Times seeks mainstream credibility, despite Falun Gong ties
Falun Gong - Guns and Butter
Family of David
Fellowship of Friends
Fellowship of Friends - Statement from a former fember of Fellowship of Friends
Foundation of Human Understanding
Friends of the Western Buddhist Order
Friends of the Western Buddhist Order - Free translation of Dharmachari Bakul’s Open Letter
Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (FLDS)
JKL
Jehovah's Witnesses - aka Watchtower Bible and Tract Society
Jehovah's Witnesses - Babies returned to Jehovah’s Witnesses - by The Vancouver Province
Jehovah's Witnesses - Court dismisses case: Couple kicked out after saying church covered up sexual abuse
Jehovah's Witnesses - Ex-Jehovah Witness whistleblower calls it as he sees it
Jehovah's Witnesses - Interview with Bill Bowen (silentlambs.org)
Jehovah's Witnesses - Jehovah’s Witnesses & Clergy Abuse Developments in Denmark and California
Jehovah's Witnesses - Life or Death Decision
Jehovah's Witnesses - Second Canadian sextuplet dies
Jehovah's Witnesses - Sextuplets’ parents live life by the Bible: “We are not fanatics”
Jehovah's Witnesses - The fight for the sextuplets
Jehovah's Witnesses - Winnipeg Jehovah’s Witness teen loses fight to refuse blood transfusions
Jetsunma
Jetsunma - Amid the tall trees
Jetsunma - The Guru Papers
JPUSA (Jesus People USA)
Kabbalah Learning Center
Kabbalah learning center - Ex-KLC Staff Member’s Statement
Kabbalah learning center- Open Letter to Madonna
Kings Chapel aka Bethel Church
Kirpal Light Satsang
Kirpal Light Satsang - The Guru Papers: Masks of Authoritarian Power
Landmark Forum / EST & other Large Group Awareness Trainings (LGAT)
Legion of Christ
Legion of Christ
Legion of Christ - Maciel accusers seek accountability
Legion of Christ - Reporter Atlanta school controversy responds to Legion of Christ
Legion of Christ - Turmoil in Atlanta
Leo Jean
Life Training
Life Training - Testimonial on an Experience with the Kairos Foundation
Lifespring
Living in Process
Love Israel
MNO
Mahikari
Maranatha Campus Ministries
Masterpath
Meehan, Bob Drug Rehab Programs
MeK - People's Mujahedin of Iran, aka Mojāhedin-e Khalq / Camp Ashraf
Midwest Psychic Institute
Militia / Hate Groups
Militia / Hate Groups - From the desk of Kerry Noble
MJB SEMINARS
MLM - Multi-level Marketing/Network marketing
MLM - Chinese are vulnerable to Utah-based pyramid schemes
MLM - Multi-level Marketing Network Marketing Exposed
MLM - Pyramid Scheme Alert Update
Montel Williams – Sex Abuse and Mind Control: Raised In A Cult
Moon organization - Detailed Information on Moon Organization (aka the Unification Church)
Moon Organization - Detailed Information on Moon Organization Beliefs of the Organization
Moon Organization - Detailed Information on Moon Organization History of Organization
Moon Organization - Detailed Information on Moon Organization How the Organization is Perceived
Moon Organization - Detailed Information on Moon Organization If You Are a Current Member
Moon Organization - Detailed Information on Moon Organization Methods Taught by the Organization
Moon Organization - development page
Moon organization - Fair, Balanced, Moonie
Moon Organization - Former Catholic Archbishop seeks guidance of self-proclaimed Messiah
Moon Organization - Moon waning in Washington?
Moon Organization - Moon/Bush: Ongoing Crime Enterprise
Moon Organization - Rev. Moon turning over Unification Church to sons
Moon Organization - Rev. Sun Myung Moon of Unification Church turns 90 as his son assumes key responsibilities
Moon Organization - Reverend Kevin Thompson: Moon knew about illegal shark catching
Moon Organization - Sons Rise in a Moon Shadow
Moon organization - The Man vs. Moon
Moon Organization - The Truth About Sun Myung Moon
Moon Organization - Why US Shields Japan's WWII Denials
Morningland
Mother of God
Movement for the Restoration of the Ten Commandments of God
Movement for the Restoration of the Ten Commandments of God - Cult papers reveal new massacre link
Movement for the Restoration of the Ten Commandments of God - I Narrowly Survived the Kanungu Inferno
Movement for the Restoration of the Ten Commandments of God - Millennium Tragedy in Uganda
Movement for the Restoration of the Ten Commandments of God - Sect head denies link to Ugandan massacre
MSIA - USM - Movement of Spiritual Inner Awareness
MSIA - The Guru Papers: Masks of Authoritarian Power by Joel Kramer and Diana Alstad
Nation of Islam
Nation of Yahweh
Natlfed aka National Labor Federation
New Alliance Party / Social Therapy
New Alliance Party / Social Therapy - Fulani Mentor’s Sexy Brother
New Alliance Party / Social Therapy - Lenora Fulani Announces Possible Mayoral Run
New Birth Missionary Baptist Church
Nityananda Institute
North Korea / Kim Jong-un
Nuwaubians
Nuwaubians - Georgia Sect Alarms Neighbors
Nuwaubians - Thousands Gather for Nuwaubian Event
Odyssey Study Group
Odyssey Study Group - Open Letter to Odyssey Study Group
Open Letter to President and Mrs. Clinton on “The Family Singers”
Option Institute
Option Institute - Option Institute Has Critical Page Deleted
Opus Dei
Order of St. Charbel
Order of St. Charbel - Movement for the Restoration of the Ten Commandments of God
Order of the Solar Temple
STU
Sachcha Mission
Sahaja Yoga aka Vishwa Nirmala Dharma
Sahaja Yoga aka Vishwa Nirmala Dharma - How one gets trapped
Sahaja Yoga aka Vishwa Nirmala Dharma - Sahaja Yogis Threaten Violence
Sahaja Yoga aka Vishwa Nirmala Dharma - Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi’s Sahaja Yoga
Sahaja Yoga aka Vishwa Nirmala Dharma - Testimonial supportive of Sahaja Yoga,
Sahaja Yoga aka Vishwa Nirmala Dharma - The Guru Papers: Masks of Authoritarian Power
Sahaja Yoga aka Vishwa Nirmala Dharma - Unbearable pain
Sahaja Yoga aka Vishwa Nirmala Dharma - What opened my eyes
Sathya Sai Baba Organization
Sathya Sai Baba Organization - The Guru Papers: Masks of Authoritarian Power
Sathya Sai Baba Organization - The Secret Swami
School of Practical Philosophy
Scientology
Scientology - Annotated bibliographical survey of Scientology related literature
Scientology - Criminal Complaint to Ashcroft – Scientology Crime and Terrorism
Scientology - Cult linked pilot school gets $20K grant
Scientology - Daily Mail Threatened By Church of Scientology
Scientology - Declaration of ex-Scientology exec Lawrence H. Brennan
Scientology - Defectors Say Church of Scientology Hides Abuse [New York Times]
Scientology - Hello & Goodbye from Robert Vaughn Young
Scientology - Hubbard’s “Mission Earth” – the rest of the story by Robert Vaughn Young
Scientology - Inside the Church of Scientology Judge Found Hubbard Lied About Achievements Copyright 1998 Boston Herald Inc. March 1, 1998
Scientology - Inside the Church of Scientology: Battle Sites in the Web War Copyright 1998 Boston Herald Inc.
Scientology - Inside the Church of Scientology: Church Keys Programs to Recruit Blacks Copyright 1998 Boston Herald Inc. March 2, 1998
Scientology - Inside the Church of Scientology: Copyright Laws Used to Silence Online Foes Copyright 1998 Boston Herald Inc.
Scientology - Inside the Church of Scientology: Key Dates in War on the Net Copyright 1998 Boston Herald Inc.
Scientology - Inside the Church of Scientology: Milton School Shades Ties to Scientology Copyright 1998 Boston Herald Inc. March 2, 1998
Scientology - Inside the Church of Scientology: Powerful Church Targets Fortunes, Souls of Recruits The Boston Herald
Scientology - Inside the Church of Scientology: Sacred Teachings Not Secret Anymore Copyright 1998 Boston Herald Inc.
Scientology - Interview with ex-Scientologist Larry Brennan
Scientology - Is this a Religion?
Scientology - Lisa McPherson’s charges against Scientology
Scientology - Narconon
Scientology - Open Letter #2 to Mike Rinder re Cancer from Robert Vaughn Young
Scientology - Open Letter to Mike Rinder from Robert Vaughn Young
Scientology - Scientology capitulates — Reuters
Scientology - Scientology Gets Its Ass Kicked In the Desert
Scientology - Scientology’s Crushing Defeat
Scientology - Scientology’s scourge
Scientology - Scientology-led cult network releases two “Disinformation
Scientology - Sociologist Stephen Kent’s Affidavit for McPherson Case
Scientology - Suspicious of human rights video
Scientology - The Bridge – full length feature film about Scientology
Scientology - The Ex-Files [video]
Scientology - The Use of Mind Control in Scientology by Monica Pignotti, LMSW
Scientology - To Dept20/RTC staff who want to leave from Robert Vaughn Young
Scientology - Toward a new model of “cult control” by Robert Vaughn Young
Scientology - Video Interview with ex-Scientologist Tory Christman (OT7)
Scientology - Wollersheim — Will Scientology pay 3+ million dollar?
Self-Realization Fellowship (SRF) Yogananda
Self-Realization Fellowship (SRF) Yogananda
Set Free Ministries
Setsuri
Setsuri - 2,000 Japanese join cult led by suspected sex offender on the run from Interpol
Shamanism and Shamans
Siddha Yoga (Syda Yoga)
Siddha Yoga - Siddha Yoga, Former Member Statement
Siddha Yoga - The Guru Papers: Masks of Authoritarian Power
Simchat Torah Beit Midrash
Smith’s Friends
Society Ordo Templi Orientis
Society Ordo Templi Orientis (Order of the Eastern Temple)
Soka Gakkai International/Formerly: Nichirin Shoshu of America (NSA)
Soka Gakkai International/Formerly: Nichirin Shoshu of America (NSA) - A Former Top Hokkaido Soka Gakkai Women’s Division Leader Charges
Soka Gakkai International/Formerly: Nichirin Shoshu of America (NSA) - Buddhism American style
Soka Gakkai International/Formerly: Nichirin Shoshu of America (NSA) - JAPAN: Support, at a Price
Spring of Life Ministry, Memphis, TN
Sri Chinmoy Center
Sri Chinmoy Center - The Guru Papers
Statement from Former Member of 3HO
Sterling Institute
Straight, Inc.
Sword of the Spirit aka Word of God
Synanon
Synanon - The Devil and John Walker
The Body
The Brethren/The Brothers and Sisters/The Garbage Eaters/The Roberts Group
The Bright Path / Ishayas
The Crossing Church
The Deal
The Family International - Revenge Against Religious Sect
The Family International (also known as: The Family, the Family International, the Family of Love, COG, the Children of God)
The Global Association of Culture and Peace aka Setsuri
The Global Association of Culture and Peace aka Setsuri - 2,000 Japanese join cult led by suspected sex
The Global Association of Culture and Peace aka Setsuri - Alleged Cult Sows Seeds Via Campus Event
The Global Association of Culture and Peace aka Setsuri - Asian cult leader arrested
The Global Association of Culture and Peace aka Setsuri - Claims sect using social groups to recruit members
The Global Association of Culture and Peace aka Setsuri - Guru said to have raped prospective brides before mass weddings
The Global Association of Culture and Peace aka Setsuri - Police raid Setsuri cult facilities in Chiba
The Global Association of Culture and Peace aka Setsuri - What is Setsuri
The Guru Papers - Masks of Authoritarian Power - Joel Kramer and Diana Alstad
The Hoffman Quadrinity Process
The Hoffman Quadrinity Process - New Age Miracle or Fraud
The Hoffman Quadrinity Process - Science vs. Spooks: Skepticism, scientific research and the Nostradamus effect
The Hoffman Quadrinity Process - The Ontological Odd Couple and the Origins of the Fisher-Hoffman Psychic Therapy
The Hoffman Quadrinity Process- Jonestown and our Deliverance from Cults
The Jesus Christians
The Process
The TEAM/LIFE Business
the tree of life
The Twelve Tribes
The Twelve Tribes - Letter to the Boston Globe editor
The Way International
Transcendental Meditation (TM)
Transcendental Meditation (TM) - A house of cards: Dissociative bliss becomes addictive
Transcendental Meditation (TM) - Cult expert Steve Hassan issues consumer warning on David Lynch promoted TM
Transcendental Meditation (TM) - Transcendental Life & David Lynch
Tridentine Latin Rite Church
Tvind
Tvind - Crossing Continents – Denmark’s Tvind
Tvind - Danish court convicts 1, acquits 7, in fraud case involving humanitarian groups
Tvind - Donating Clothes To Charity Now A Big Business
Tvind - Green Boxes Disappear from Streets amid Fraud Allegations
Tvind - Humana’s Hot Money
TVind Statement by Professor Alan Somerset
Unification Church
Universal Church of the Kingdom of God
Universal Church of the Kingdom of God - Ex-Member Bids Farewell To 60G – And Her Faith
Universal Church of the Kingdom of God - Holy-Roller Church Cashes In On Faithful
University Bible Fellowship
University Bible Fellowship