On Belief: A Podcast About Cults

Episode 214: Jon Atack

December 17th, 2019  |  Season 2  |  21 mins

Jon Atack is the author of the definitive history of the Scientology organization (Let's Sell Them A Piece of Blue Sky ISBN 1482023032)

Since the publication of that book and the legal battles that followed, Jon has helped people who have left cults re-integrate and now has a YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCI4tcSMV2kEh3BooY_XFSYQ

Episode 213: Overcoming Cult Trauma With Psychedelics

December 10th, 2019  |  Season 2  |  15 mins 40 secs

Chelsea Lockwood joins me to discuss her journey out of the Jehovah's Witnesses and overcoming that trauma with the help of Ayahuasca.

Episode 212: Abusive Relationships with Donna Anderson

December 3rd, 2019  |  Season 2  |  16 mins 8 secs

Donna Anderson of LoveFraud (lovefraud.com) joins me to discuss the similarities between how abusers target and string along mates and how cults recruit followers.

Episode 211: New Kadampa Tradition

November 26th, 2019  |  Season 2  |  16 mins 38 secs

Dr Michelle Haslam joins me to explain why even someone with high level psychological training can get swept into a high demand group

Episode 210: The Work

November 19th, 2019  |  Season 2  |  16 mins 16 secs

What's it like to be born into a group that believes in a biblical Armageddon prophecy and that their leader is God on Earth? My guest Sarah Ficca explains

Episode 209: Tony Ortega

November 12th, 2019  |  Season 2  |  20 mins 26 secs

For years, Tony Ortega has been relentlessly covering the Church of Scientology. He has made some powerful enemies. Find out what it's like to be one of Scientology's biggest enemies.

Episode 208: Transcendental Meditation (TM)

November 5th, 2019  |  Season 2  |  15 mins 40 secs

Aryeh Siegel, author of Transcendental Deception (0999661507) joins me to describe his time in the TM movement and why you should not allow your school to welcome TM practitioners.

Episode 207: Steve Hassan

October 29th, 2019  |  Season 2  |  59 mins 48 secs

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Cult Survivor and Cult Expert Steve Hassan joins me for a full hour to discuss his latest book The Cult of Trump: A Leading Cult Expert Explains How the President Uses Mind Control ( ISBN 1982127333) and why we should be more concerned about Manchurian Candidates in the future.

Episode 205: Soka Gakkai International with Juana Castanheira

October 15th, 2019  |  Season 2  |  1 hr 5 mins

Namu Myōhō Renge Kyō. It's a chant you may have heard, and you may have thought it was part of regular Buddhist practice. It's actually a chant that's the cornerstone of a group called Soka Gakkai International

Episode 204: OneTaste With Ellen Huet and Ruwan Meepagala

October 8th, 2019  |  Season 2  |  15 mins 30 secs

OneTaste started with a simple but powerful mission: to teach women to receive pleasure without any hang ups or need to reciprocate. What ended up happening to many who joined the organization has left them wondering if their consent was ever fully given.

Episode 203: Munchausen By Proxy With Dr. Marc Feldman and Judy Tienken

October 1st, 2019  |  Season 2  |  14 mins 57 secs

Coercive thought control doesn't just happen in cults or cult-like groups. In cases like Munchausen By Proxy, it's complete, abusive control by a mother over her children.

Episode 202: Cult Therapy with Rachel Bernstein

September 24th, 2019  |  Season 2  |  15 mins 13 secs

Most people think De-Programming is the only method to work with ex-cult members, but Rachel Bernstein, a licensed family therapist, specializes in therapy for family members and survivors of cults.

Episode 000: Cross Post: Hear the first episode of On Grief: a Podcast about Death Free Now

September 19th, 2019  |  Season 0  |  51 mins 32 secs

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To understand death, we have to ask people who have been there what it's like. I asked Dr. Eben Alexander, a Neurosurgeon and Near Death Experiencer to tell me what happened to him.

I also induce a Near Death Experience with the help of a substance called 5-MeO DMT.

Episode 201: Hate Groups with David Neiwert

September 17th, 2019  |  Season 2  |  56 mins 47 secs

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Season 2 of On Belief will look at other ways that control and coercive thought reform are deployed.

This week, David Neiwert, Author of Alt-America: The Rise of the Radical Right in the Age of Trump (ISBN 1786634236) Joins me to discuss White Supremacist Hate Groups and their similarities to cults

Episode 200: ***SPECIAL TEASER FOR ON GRIEF: A PODCAST ABOUT DEATH***

September 17th, 2019  |  1 min

Launching this week: On Grief: A Podcast about Death

Find out more about my next project

Episode 118: Catherine Oxenberg on Cults and Families

September 3rd, 2019  |  Season 1  |  15 mins 46 secs

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Catherine Oxenberg, author of Captive: A Mother's Crusade to Save Her Daughter from a Terrifying Cult joins me to discuss her ordeal extracting her daughter India from NXIVM and her experiences helping bring Keith Raniere to justice.