LURED Excerpt, Part 1: Introduction LURED Excerpt, Part 2: Definition of a Cult It would only be years later, however, that I realized what a panic my parents were experiencing to hear that now, their oldest remaining daughter had joined a religious cult; was speaking in tongues, believed that VPW, Doctor, The Teacher (as he […]
“You don’t get rich writing science fiction. If you want to get rich, you start a religion.” L. Ron Hubbard L. Ron Hubbard, a well-known writer of science fiction and fantasy novels, made this statement and that is exactly what he did in 1954 when he started the Church of Scientology. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L._Ron_Hubbard DEFINITION OF A CULT: […]
It’s hard to believe that I would be the one joining a cult. It was the subtlety of it all that was surprising. As they say, “No one joins a cult”. The tactics of any cult-like group are first to make you feel special, loved, understood. Then you learn that you have all the answers, […]
My brother spent about fifteen years of his life at Willowbrook, the place that Robert F. Kennedy called ‘a snake pit’ in 1965. When Kennedy visited the site, he was horrified by what he saw and stated that “individuals in the overcrowded facility were living in filth and dirt, their clothing in rags, in rooms […]