
Speaking of Cults...Cult Recovery is a Rocky Road
This week I am bringing back Jason Horvatic, a former Scientologist who came out publicly about two years ago and had some contentious views and statements to make about me, Scientology and his own vi...
12 Heinä 20251h 32min

Speaking of Cults...Breaking the Spell of Religion with Dr. Moe
This week I am welcoming back Dr. Maurice Turmel aka "Dr Moe" to discuss religious trauma and his new book on the subject. We go over a number of key principles underlying religious trauma which I thi...
5 Heinä 20251h 10min

Speaking of Cults...Project Esther - The Modern U.S. Crusade
I'm posting this bonus podcast mid-week since I didn't want to delay getting this information and interview with Dr. Clint Heacock out to you. Project Esther is one part of a series of actions being t...
3 Heinä 20251h 21min

Speaking of Cults...How to Get Someone Out of a Cult (for real)
This week I welcome Patrick Ryan, a cult intervention specialist who has been working in the field for 40 years and definitely knows what he's talking about, having helped thousands of people one-on-o...
28 Kesä 20251h 41min

Speaking of Cults...Don't Let the Pseudoscience Bug Catch You!
This week I welcome back Dr. Jonathan Stea, author of "Mind the Science" and a real pleasure to talk to about the harms and pitfalls of science denialism, health fads and pseudoscience. In this age of...
21 Kesä 202555min

Speaking of Cults...Why Cult "Deprogramming" is Bad with Ashlen Hilliard
This week I welcome back cult intervention specialist Ashlen Hilliard to discuss the perils and vagaries of cult interventions, deprogramming, the background of all this and what we do to help extract...
14 Kesä 20251h 11min

Speaking of Cults...Radical Honesty is a Pack of Lies
This week I welcome Jura Glo, a survivor of a group called Radical Honesty, which takes honesty to an extreme level that is more suited to the needs of predatory personalities than personal transforma...
7 Kesä 20251h 41min

Speaking of Cults...How the Mormon Church Enables Abuse and Homophobia
Following on last week's podcast abut the Troubled Teen Industry, this week I am joined again by Bryce Blankenagel and Shannon Grover to go deep on what the Mormon church's position is on the LGBT+ co...
31 Touko 20251h 47min



















