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 Juli 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 Juli 202316min
Cults on Film: The Truman Show
In this episode Celine and Stephen do a cult reading of the classic movie The Truman Show, directed by Peter Weir, starring Jim Carey, Laura Linney, Noah Emmerich and Natascha McElhone. What are the p...
21 Juli 202359min
The Psychology of Cults Miniseries Part 4: Cult Leadership
On our continuing miniseries on the psychology of cults, this week Stephen explores how cult leaders often employ charismatic tactics to influence their followers. Stephen uses the organizational psyc...
18 Juli 202315min
