On Belief: A Podcast About Cults

Episode 118: Catherine Oxenberg on Cults and Families

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

allison mack, belief, catherine oxenberg, coercion, cults, karen geier, keith raniere, nancy saltzman, nxivm, religions, rick alan ross, sects, yoga

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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.

Episode 111: Cult Hopping & NXIVM Trial Update With Guest EJ Dickson

July 16th, 2019  |  Season 1  |  49 mins 31 secs

allison mack, belief, coercion, cults, ej dickson, karen geier, keith raniere, nancy salzman, nxivm, religions, rick alan ross, sects, yoga

EJ Dickson covered the NXIVM trial for Rolling Stone and discovered a phenomenon among those who leave cults: some of them move to other cults.

Episode 102: NXIVM With Guest Brock Wilbur

May 14th, 2019  |  Season 1  |  1 hr 3 secs

allison mack, belief, coercion, cults, karen geier, keith raniere, nancy salzman, nxivm, religions, rick alan ross, sects, yoga

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Content Warning: Episode contains frank discussion of sexual and other forms of abuse.

Brock Wilbur joins me to discuss when he was inadvertently recruited by a division of NXIVM and how that lead him to investigate the cult.

Little did he know what he would encounter.

Brock discusses his unique insights into the trial of Keith Raniere.

Episode 101: What IS a Cult? An Interview with Rick Alan Ross of the Cult Education Institute

April 19th, 2019  |  Season 1  |  12 mins 49 secs

belief, coercion, cults, deprogramming, karen geier, moonies, nxivm, religions, rick alan ross, scientology, sects, yoga

In the first episode, Rick Alan Ross explains what cults are, how leaders entice and ensnare folks, what the profile is of a person who is susceptible to cults, and how friends and family can help those affected by harmful groups.