Eternal Values with Hoyt Richards
Hoyt Richards spent over two decades in Eternal Values, after first meeting the man who called himself Frederick von Mierers on a beach at the age of 16. Bring Me the Beauties: A Model Cult, out now o...
2 Jun 1h 7min
Coercive Control in Charismatic Evangelical Churches with the RTC
When we talk about cults, we tend to picture the ones that make headlines: isolated compounds, charismatic leaders, dramatic exits. But what about the church down the street? The one with the worship ...
31 Mai 53min
Sphinx Spiritual – Part 2
Sphinx Spiritual takes instruction from a council of entities that includes Leonardo da Vinci, Lady Di, Sir Francis Bacon, Mahatma Ghandi, an alien called Zootor, and married Mornington Peninsula coup...
26 Mai 1h 33min
Sphinx Spiritual – Part 1
A spiritual school in Victoria teaches that we each have a spiritual guide who we can rely on to help us through life, and that the couple who run the school – Ian and Pearl Rogers – sit on a council ...
19 Mai 1h 26min
The Aggressive Christianity Missions Training Corps with Harrison Hill
The Aggressive Christianity Missions Training Corps, or ACMTC, is a hardline fringe religious cult that was led by a former hippie who went by the name Deborah Green. In The Oracle’s Daughter, author ...
12 Mai 54min
Update: The Nannup Four
The ABC’s internationally award-winning podcast Expanse, exploring big stories from across Australia, looked at the mysterious case of the Nannup Four for its sixth season. Host Dominique Bayens inves...
3 Mai 34min
Orgsm: A Memoir and a OneTaste update with Ruwan Meepagala
The sentences just came down for OneTaste’s founder Nicole Daedone and her second-in-command Rachel Cherwitz – if you're unfamiliar with OneTaste you can listen to Let's Talk About Sects' deep dive in...
5 Apr 57min
