Cult Hackers

Today's 'topic episode' is about grief, and Celine and Stephen explore the famous Kübler-Ross stages of grief and how they might apply to leaving a coercively controlling organization, relationship or...

9 Kesä 202358min

Rebecca Woodward is a writer, published in the New York Times, Huffpost and Electric Literature. She was raised as a Jehovah's Witness and recently wrote a well received piece in the Electric Lit abou...

2 Kesä 20231h 9min

Brent Lee, former conspiracist joins the podcast today to talk about his wild journey since we last spoke in January of 2022. He opens up about the importance of taking ownership of the past, dealing ...

26 Touko 202356min

This week Celine interrogates Stephen on his claim that it's only a matter of time before we see our first AI cult leader. Is there already a cult algorithm that coercive groups have been using for ye...

19 Touko 20231h 1min

On today's bonus episode Joy Cranham, from the Family Survival Trust, speaks to Stephen about a special event they are hosting with Gillie Jenkinson, psychoanalyst and author of a new book "Walking Fr...

18 Touko 202343min

Stephen talks to Anke Richter, an international journalist and author of Cult Trip, a book about her investigations into a number of cults including Counterpoint, Agama Yoga and Gloriavale. It's a fas...

12 Touko 20231h 13min

Prince Harry suggested that the Royal family might be a death cult in his book Spare. Today on Coronation Day, Celine and Stephen examine the institution of the British Royals to check whether it tick...

5 Touko 202354min

This bonus episode is a conversation Stephen had with anarchist Hayward Gatch about his experience studying with Jehovah's Witnesses. They also get into the politics of anarchy and it's different form...

3 Touko 202356min