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All books related to cults and mind control as understood by secular science. (Please no books about how XYZ religion is a cult because they don't believe in the right version of Jesus). Includes books about persuasion tactics, social psychology, abuse in a religious context, and exit stories by former members.
The definition of "cult" is not limited to religious context. It can include secular high-demand groups such as political groups, totalitarian governments, commercial organizations, and "large group awareness training."
The definition of "cult" is not limited to religious context. It can include secular high-demand groups such as political groups, totalitarian governments, commercial organizations, and "large group awareness training."
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Secret Weapons: How Two Sisters Were Brainwashed to Kill for Their Country
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4.26 avg rating — 53 ratings
score: 89,
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The Night Church
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Whitley Strieber (Goodreads Author)
3.16 avg rating — 304 ratings
score: 89,
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Lovingly Abused
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4.17 avg rating — 217 ratings
score: 89,
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The Enslaved Queen: A Memoir About Electricity and Mind Control
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4.49 avg rating — 51 ratings
score: 88,
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The Pattern of the Double-Bind in Mormonism
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4.43 avg rating — 14 ratings
score: 87,
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White Witch in a Black Robe: A True Story About Criminal Mind Control
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4.14 avg rating — 21 ratings
score: 87,
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Suddenly Strangers
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4.12 avg rating — 25 ratings
score: 86,
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Why Johnny Can't Come Home
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3.91 avg rating — 77 ratings
score: 86,
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Predators, Prey, and Other Kinfolk: Growing Up in Polygamy
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3.43 avg rating — 396 ratings
score: 85,
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Operation Mind Control
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4.17 avg rating — 103 ratings
score: 85,
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Woman Redeemed
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score: 84,
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Programmed to Kill: The Politics of Serial Murder
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3.93 avg rating — 927 ratings
score: 84,
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The Mormon Cult: A Former Missionary Reveals the Secrets of Mormon Mind Control
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Jack B. Worthy (Goodreads Author)
3.68 avg rating — 69 ratings
score: 83,
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Leaving the Fold: Candid Conversations With Inactive Mormons
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3.67 avg rating — 30 ratings
score: 82,
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Cannibalism, Blood Drinking & High-Adept Satanism
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4.09 avg rating — 128 ratings
score: 82,
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Thought Reform and the Psychology of Totalism: A Study of 'Brainwashing' in China
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4.14 avg rating — 311 ratings
score: 81,
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The Nine (Sinister Forces: A Grimoire of American Political Witchcraft, #1)
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Peter Levenda (Goodreads Author)
4.16 avg rating — 559 ratings
score: 81,
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Combatting Cult Mind Control: The #1 Best-selling Guide to Protection, Rescue, and Recovery from Destructive Cults
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Steven Hassan (Goodreads Author)
4.42 avg rating — 1,552 ratings
score: 80,
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The Manson Secret (Sinister Forces: A Grimoire of American Political Witchcraft, #3)
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Peter Levenda (Goodreads Author)
4.32 avg rating — 275 ratings
score: 80,
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A Warm Gun (Sinister Forces: A Grimoire of American Political Witchcraft, #2)
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Peter Levenda (Goodreads Author)
4.25 avg rating — 219 ratings
score: 79,
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Cults That Kill: Probing the Underworld of Occult Crime
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Larry Kahaner (Goodreads Author)
3.25 avg rating — 124 ratings
score: 78,
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The Witch-Hunt Narrative: Politics, Psychology, and the Sexual Abuse of Children
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4.32 avg rating — 50 ratings
score: 77,
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Mass Control: Engineering Human Consciousness
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4.05 avg rating — 105 ratings
score: 76,
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Taken: Inside the Alien-Human Abduction Agenda
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4.09 avg rating — 171 ratings
score: 75,
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Mind Control, World Control: The Encyclopedia of Mind Control
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3.82 avg rating — 99 ratings
score: 74,
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MILABS: Military Mind Control and Alien Abduction
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3.31 avg rating — 16 ratings
score: 73,
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Into The Fringe: A True Story of Alien Abduction
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3.89 avg rating — 234 ratings
score: 72,
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New Satanists
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Gini Graham Scott (Goodreads Author)
3.25 avg rating — 4 ratings
score: 71,
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128 books ·
84 voters ·
list created July 24th, 2014
by Luna Corbden (votes) .
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