Anti-cult activism: Hate, disgruntlement or something else?
Why do people do activism, write books or make podcasts after they've left a cultic group? Is it down to hate? Are they just disgruntled former members? A good-faith attempt to address the question o...
25 Aug 20231h 26min
“Silenced in Eden” with Jo Lloyd Johnson
Jo Lloyd Johnson is an artist and author who escaped a charismatic, fundamentalist Christian cultic group. She has written about this experience in her insightful and touching book called 'Silenced in...
18 Aug 20231h 4min
Learning About Cults With Kacey from The Cult Vault
This week our guest is Kacey from the Cult Vault, one of the leading podcasts about cults. Kacey talks about starting up a podcast, what she's learned about cults and her plans for the future. It was ...
11 Aug 20231h 7min
The Psychology of Cults Miniseries Part 7: Finding Identity After Leaving a Cult
In this special, last of the current season of miniseries episodes about the psychology of cults, we are releasing the recording of Stephen's presentation to the International Cultic Studies Associati...
8 Aug 202342min
Is there a UFO cult inside the Pentagon?
Today Stephen and Celine look at the news about claims of UFOs and UAP at the Congressional Hearing on July 26th 2023. This podcast has asked before, what would religious fundamentalists make of the e...
4 Aug 20231h 25min
The Psychology of Cults Miniseries Part 6: Managing a Cult
In our ongoing miniseries into the psychology of cults Stephen explores how cults manage their activity, including the similarities and differences between cultic groups and more orthodox organization...
1 Aug 202319min
Inside The Mind of a Teenage Fundamentalist
Today we welcome back Brian and Troy from the 'I was a teenage fundamentalist' podcast. What are the thinking processes of a fundamentalist? What's it like to speak in tongues? Why did Stephen get a l...
28 Jul 20231h 16min
The Psychology of Cults Miniseries Part 5: Organizational Change
Today on the psychology of cults miniseries, Stephen uses the tools of Organizational Psychology to explain how organizations respond to external pressures to change. Implications include what we can ...
25 Jul 202316min
