Karen Geier
Host of On Belief: A Podcast About Cults
Karen Geier is a writer from Toronto with bylines in The Guardian, Vice, New York Magazine, Medium's Premium Channels, Huffpost, Splitsider, SeriousEats, and many more.
Karen Geier has hosted 60 Episodes.
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Episode 224: Acts 29: Part 1
March 10th, 2020 | Season 2 | 17 mins 15 secs
My guest Dana joins me to discuss her time in Neo-Calvinist group Acts 29. Part one of two.
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Episode 223: Toxic Workplaces
February 26th, 2020 | Season 2 | 15 mins 49 secs
In this episode Jordan Uhl joins me to discuss how working at a popular non profit was a high demand situation with coercion, emotional manipulation and sometimes abusive situations.
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Episode 222: ISKCON (Hare Krishnas) Part 2
February 19th, 2020 | Season 2 | 18 mins 58 secs
Thanks for your patience!
This week, Eric joins me to discuss what made him leave ISKCON
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Episode 221: ISKCON (Hare Krishnas)
February 11th, 2020 | Season 2 | 16 mins 7 secs
An ex-ISKCON member joins me to discuss his childhood with a parent who was involved in an LGAT and his adult involvement in ISKCON- International Society of Krishna Consciousness
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Episode 220: The LDS Church Part 2
February 4th, 2020 | Season 2 | 15 mins 58 secs
Marie* continues her story about life in the LDS Church, and beyond
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Episode 219: The LDS Church
January 28th, 2020 | Season 2 | 16 mins 17 secs
Marie* joins me for part one of a two part episode on her experiences inside the Church of Latter Day Saints (Mormons) which she describes as a high demand group that limited her choices in life.
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Episode 218: Narcissists with W. Keith Campbell
January 21st, 2020 | Season 2 | 16 mins 53 secs
W. Keith Campbell literally wrote the book (several, actually) on narcissists. He joins me to discuss Narcissism to better understand what's going on in the mind of cult leaders, and how they're able to charm people into surrendering everything.
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Episode 217: Glynn Washington on Heaven's Gate
January 14th, 2020 | Season 2 | 14 mins 54 secs
Glynn Washington, host of Snap Judgement and producer/host of the Heaven's Gate podcast joins me to discuss why he decided to revisit Heaven's Gate and his own story of growing up in a cult.
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Episode 216: XXXXXXX
January 7th, 2020 | Season 2 | 15 mins 28 secs
Last season, we explored LGATs. This season, my guest Kate* joins me to go behind the curtain of the original LGAT and tells us about a frightening experience she had
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Episode 215: Soka Gakkai International with Juana Castanheira PART TWO
January 1st, 2020 | Season 2 | 15 mins 37 secs
Juana Castanheira joins me for another episode to talk candidly about her recovery from SGI, MLMs, and TM.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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
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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
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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.