On Belief: A Podcast About Cults
On Belief is about why none of us are immune from coercive thought reform
About the show
We all would like to think that we're immune to being persuaded, but were that true, advertising wouldn't work, the best candidates would always get elected, and our personal relationships would always be equitable.
On Belief examines why, with so much information available to us to dissuade us from joining harmful groups. I ask people who have had first hand experience with harmful groups and sects how they were seduced, how they were tricked, and how they got out.
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Episodes
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Episode 318: Neurodiversity and Cults
February 22nd, 2022 | Season 3 | 1 hr 2 mins
My guest Priscilla Eyles, a neurodiversity advocate and cult survivor joins me to discuss her experiences with two high demand groups and why neurodivergent people might be at greater risk for cult recruitment
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Episode 317: Unification Church
September 14th, 2021 | Season 3 | 17 mins 39 secs
My guest joins me to describe their childhood and growing up a "Moonie"
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Episode 316: Cult City Tours
August 16th, 2021 | Season 3 | 18 mins 33 secs
Ted "the Tour Guide" Reinhard joins me to discuss living in Clearwater, Florida, home to the Church of Scientology, and his tour company, which takes participants on a tour of the Scientology buildings of Clearwater.
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Episode 315: Matthew Remski
June 21st, 2021 | Season 3 | 17 mins 17 secs
In this episode, I discuss radicalization, cult hopping, de-radicalization and more with Matthew Remski.
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Episode 314: Janja Lalich
April 12th, 2021 | Season 3 | 14 mins 13 secs
Janja Lalich, Cult Researcher and frequent Cult Expert for Documentaries joins me to discuss her career and what we really know about how Cults work.
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Episode 313: Bikram Yoga
March 3rd, 2021 | Season 3 | 14 mins 44 secs
My guest joins me to discuss her time at a 2 month intensive yoga training and what she witnessed there.
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Episode 312: The Salvation Army
February 17th, 2021 | Season 3 | 16 mins 31 secs
My guest joins me to share her experience growing up in the ubiquitous yet mysterious organization.
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Episode 311: Growing up LDS
January 28th, 2021 | Season 3 | 18 mins 49 secs
In this episode my guest describes what it's like to grow up Mormon when you're different
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Episode 310: Jehovahs Witnesses and Growing Up
January 6th, 2021 | Season 3 | 17 mins 47 secs
What happens when you're born into a high control group that targeted your mom when she was pregnant with you? My guest discusses growing up Jehovah's Witness this week in a supersized episode
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Episode 309: Church of Christ
November 25th, 2020 | Season 3 | 17 mins 17 secs
My guest joins me to discuss how going to a school affiliated with the Church of Christ changed her in ways that still affect her today.
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Episode 308: Conspiracy Theories
October 14th, 2020 | Season 3 | 17 mins 36 secs
Will Sommer (Right Richter & The Daily Beast) joins me to discuss the similarities between cult belief and belief in major conspiracy theories like Pizzagate and QAnon
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Episode 307: The Human Potential Movement
September 15th, 2020 | Season 3 | 17 mins 42 secs
Guest Tobi Olowe joins me again to discuss the primordial soup of most cults we know today: The Human Potential Movement.
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Episode 306: Gender Critical Movement
August 26th, 2020 | Season 3 | 15 mins 13 secs
My guest joins me to describe how dealing with their own gender journey led them into the world of the Gender Critical movement online
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Episode 305: Men's Rights Activists
August 4th, 2020 | Season 3 | 16 mins 50 secs
My guest joins me to discuss his time in Men's Rights Activism, and how the love of a TV show is what started them down the rabbit hole.
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Episode 304: Independent Fundamental Baptists
July 21st, 2020 | Season 3 | 17 mins 5 secs
My guest Tony joins me to discuss the troubling details of being born into an Evangelical Christian tradition
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Episode 303: Zendik Farm
June 9th, 2020 | Season 3 | 16 mins 49 secs
Helen Zuman, author of Mating in Captivity (https://helenzuman.com/books/mating-in-captivity-a-memoir/) joins me to discuss her time in the Zendik Farm Intentional Community