ENG 111- Essay 3, Cults and Conspiracy Theories

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The Freedom of Mind Resource Center supports those affected by undue influence. This center also provides information to the media to help the public understand undue influence (mind control) in all of its forms including controlling people, cults, beliefs, estrangement, and parental alienation.

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International Cultic Studies Association (ICSA), founded in 1979, provides information, education, and help to those adversely affected by or interested in cultic and other high-control groups and relationships. ICSA is unique in how it brings together former group members, families, helping professionals and researchers.

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In each episode, Hosts Paige, Armando, and Andrea discuss a new group of fanatics and their insane leaders. These goofy jokes about horrifying subjects are a great way to remember: Don't Drink the Kool-Aid!

Mystery. Manipulation. Murder. Cults are associated with all of these. But what really goes on inside a cult? More specifically, what goes on inside the minds of people who join cults and leaders who start them? Hosts Greg and Vanessa explore the history and psychology behind the most notorious cults.

IndoctriNation is a weekly podcast covering cults, manipulators, and protecting yourself from systems of control. Each week, Rachel Berstein (LMFT), sits down with former cult members, intervention experts, and people who have left narcissistic relationships to hear their stories and discuss their past experiences.

Let's Talk About Sects is an award-winning, independent podcast that focuses on a different cult each episode. Host Sarah Steel looks at the history of a sect's leaders, the recruitment of members, their experiences, psychological aspects, and notable incidents during its existence.

As whistleblowers documented in the HBO series “The Vow,” hosts Sarah and Nippy have a lot to say about their experience, and burning questions to ask people with similar stories. Listen in as they share their stories, have frank and unscripted conversations with other survivors and cult experts, and do a deep dive on how devotion can turn to dysfunction.

American Hysteria explores how fantastical thinking has shaped our culture – moral panics, urban legends, hoaxes, crazes, fringe beliefs, and national misunderstandings. Poet-turned-podcaster Chelsey Weber-Smith tells the strangest stories from American history and examines the forces that create the reality we share.

Hosts Mike and Sarah are journalists obsessed with the past. In each episode, they reconsider an event, person or phenomenon that’s been miscast in the public imagination.

From UFOs to psychic powers and government cover-ups, this podcast is dedicated to unraveling unexplained events.

Join host Karl Mamer as he examines and debunks conspiracy theories.