Beste Living Cult Free podcasts (2024)

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S3: Rebecca’s Story: The Profound Impact of Religious Cults on Personal Identities 34:13

1M ago34:13

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Rebecca’s story transcends individual experience to illuminate universal themes of resilience, identity, and healing. It underscores the power of community, self-discovery, and the ongoing process of healing from psychological and emotional wounds inflicted by cults and similar restrictive groups while celebrating the courage and strength required …

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S3: Ciara’s Story: Is it a Sin to Talk About It? 1:00:04

3M ago1:00:04

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Grappling with existential questions about the origins of her thoughts, the influence of external forces on her autonomy, and her experiences within a religious cult, Ciara reflects on themes of control, deception, and the struggle for personal identity and freedom within a structured belief system. Listen to find out how Ciara finds bursts of insp…

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S2: STRATEGIES - Get Out or Help Someone You Love Get Out 44:32

3y ago44:32

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Today we explore strategies you can use to get out of a cult or help a loved one get out. To setup the framework for our discussion, we look at numbers and definitions. The numbers are huge. Up to 10,000 cults still exist today in the United States. That number is growing. “Millions of people have been affected by undue influence. Many of us have h…

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S2: EMOTION CONTROL - Emotional Backfire 37:44

3y ago37:44

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The subject of today’s podcast is Emotion Control. Like it or not, as human beings, we creatures tend to respond emotionally. Comfort, praise, recognition, and a sense of belonging are among our top stimuli. Our yearning for these is manna from heaven to cult leaders. They prey upon exactly this type of vulnerability. They lure us in under the veil…

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S2: THOUGHT CONTROL - They Co-Opted my Brain! 37:32

3y ago37:32

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As smart, functioning adults, we like to think that we are in control of our own thoughts. This is not always the case. As we know from Gerette’s book An Everyday Cult and from this podcast, we know that destructive cults use any number of techniques to get members to stay and commit themselves to what may be harmful activities. Thought Control is …

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S2: INFORMATION CONTROL - Standing up to Scrutiny 34:24

3y ago34:24

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Controlling information is a critical way authoritarian leaders and cult leaders control the hearts and minds of their followers. This week we discuss how they do it and how you can take some agency regarding the information you consume. Dr. Hassan suggests that we must each do independent research, that we must ask difficult questions, and really …

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S2: BEHAVIOR- Love is Stronger Than Mind Control 40:41

3y ago40:41

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Our focus today is Behavior Control, the first methodology in the BITE model, which refers to control of Behavior, Information, Thought, and Emotion. Dr. Hassan developed BITE as a model for evaluating degrees undue influence. As functioning adults, we like to think that we are in control of our own behavior. Last week’s conversation about Influenc…

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S2: INFLUENCE - from mild to extreme and everything in between 41:51

3y ago41:51

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Can understanding the nature of influence support people in cult recovery? Dr. Steve Hassan, former cult member, author, educator, and world authority on cults will be our honored guest throughout this season . His published works include: The Cult of Trump: A Leading Cult Expert Explains How the President Uses Mind Control, Combating Cult Mind Con…

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S1: Everyday Cults. Everyday People. Episode Six: Waking Up Again and Again 39:41

3y ago39:41

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We explore what Gerette has identified in her book as the final stage of cultic involvement: Waking Up Again and Again. In this ongoing phase, one becomes fully aware of the reality of cultism. Awake, cult survivors remain ever watchful for the potential for harmful power dynamics that play out in the world or in themselves. Waking Up Again and Aga…

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S1: Everyday Cults. Everyday People. Episode Five: Snapping 27:43

3+ y ago27:43

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In this episode of Everyday Cults. Everyday People, we explore what Gerette identified in her book as the fourth stage of cultic involvement: Snapping—as in snapping out of it. This is the period of dawning recognition; it’s the acknowledgement that you have been indoctrinated. It demands a huge shift in consciousness. For many, it is also an awake…

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S1: Everyday Cults. Everyday People. Episode Four: Asleep 29:33

3+ y ago29:33

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Everyday Cults. Everyday People explores the five stages of cultic involvement identified by Gerette Buglion in her new memoir An Everyday Cult. In this episode, we discuss what she calls “Asleep,” the third stage of cultic involvement. Gerette estimates that she was asleep for five out of the eighteen years she was in the cult. We discuss how the …

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S1: Everyday Cults. Everyday People. Episode Three: Drifting 31:11

3+ y ago31:11

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In this, our first season of Everyday Cults. Everyday People we explore the five stages of cultic involvement Gerette identifies in her new memoir An Everyday Cult. Last week, our subject was Falling—as in falling for the trickery of a cult. Today, we discuss drifting, the second stage. Drifting is a period of psychological meandering where part of…

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S1: Everyday Cults. Everyday People. Episode Two: Falling 22:30

3+ y ago22:30

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Just as no one intentionally falls in love with an abuser, no one intentionally joins a cult—we fall for them. Falling, in this case, refers to both falling in love and falling asleep. Gerette fell. Her fall lasted eighteen years. Often - but not always – cultic involvement begins with 'love-bombing' - a starry-eyed stage where someone is magnetica…

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S1: Everyday Cults. Everyday People. Episode One: Everyday Cults 101 27:04

3+ y ago27:04

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What is a cult? How are they created? Who joins a cult? Why? How can we recognize a cult if we’re in one? In this introductory episode, cult survivor Gerette Buglion, author of An Everyday Cult, delves into her experience living in a cult for eighteen years to answer these compelling questions. Cult dynamics exist in all layers of society. They can…

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S3: Rebecca’s Story: The Profound Impact of Religious Cults on Personal Identities 34:13

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S3: Ciara’s Story: Is it a Sin to Talk About It? 1:00:04

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S2: STRATEGIES - Get Out or Help Someone You Love Get Out 44:32

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S2: EMOTION CONTROL - Emotional Backfire 37:44

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S2: THOUGHT CONTROL - They Co-Opted my Brain! 37:32

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S2: INFORMATION CONTROL - Standing up to Scrutiny 34:24

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S2: BEHAVIOR- Love is Stronger Than Mind Control 40:41

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S2: INFLUENCE - from mild to extreme and everything in between 41:51

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S1: Everyday Cults. Everyday People. Episode Six: Waking Up Again and Again 39:41

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S1: Everyday Cults. Everyday People. Episode Five: Snapping 27:43

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S1: Everyday Cults. Everyday People. Episode Four: Asleep 29:33

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S1: Everyday Cults. Everyday People. Episode Three: Drifting 31:11

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S1: Everyday Cults. Everyday People. Episode Two: Falling 22:30

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S1: Everyday Cults. Everyday People. Episode One: Everyday Cults 101 27:04

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