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Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism (Hardcover)
by (shelved 383 times as cults)
avg rating 3.81 — 117,827 ratings — published 2021
The Girls (Hardcover)
by (shelved 246 times as cults)
avg rating 3.51 — 243,371 ratings — published 2016
Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief (Hardcover)
by (shelved 243 times as cults)
avg rating 4.04 — 45,061 ratings — published 2013
Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith (Paperback)
by (shelved 243 times as cults)
avg rating 4.01 — 225,464 ratings — published 2003
The Road to Jonestown: Jim Jones and Peoples Temple (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 223 times as cults)
avg rating 4.17 — 19,654 ratings — published 2017
Beyond Belief: My Secret Life Inside Scientology and My Harrowing Escape (Hardcover)
by (shelved 213 times as cults)
avg rating 3.78 — 41,744 ratings — published 2013
Escape (Hardcover)
by (shelved 177 times as cults)
avg rating 3.99 — 46,505 ratings — published 2007
Troublemaker: Surviving Hollywood and Scientology (Hardcover)
by (shelved 175 times as cults)
avg rating 4.07 — 76,954 ratings — published 2015
Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders (Paperback)
by (shelved 175 times as cults)
avg rating 4.06 — 154,109 ratings — published 1974
Sex Cult Nun: Breaking Away from the Children of God, a Wild, Radical Religious Cult (Hardcover)
by (shelved 150 times as cults)
avg rating 3.87 — 10,385 ratings — published 2021
Breaking Free (Paperback)
by (shelved 150 times as cults)
avg rating 4.12 — 15,885 ratings — published 2017
Educated (Hardcover)
by (shelved 140 times as cults)
avg rating 4.47 — 1,862,857 ratings — published 2018
Uncultured: A Memoir (Hardcover)
by (shelved 138 times as cults)
avg rating 4.14 — 18,203 ratings — published 2022
Stolen Innocence: My Story of Growing Up in a Polygamist Sect, Becoming a Teenage Bride, and Breaking Free of Warren Jeffs (Hardcover)
by (shelved 138 times as cults)
avg rating 3.95 — 31,690 ratings — published 2008
Don't Call It a Cult: The Shocking Story of Keith Raniere and the Women of NXIVM (Paperback)
by (shelved 124 times as cults)
avg rating 3.91 — 5,573 ratings — published 2021
Black Sheep (Hardcover)
by (shelved 116 times as cults)
avg rating 3.58 — 36,033 ratings — published 2023
Seductive Poison: A Jonestown Survivor's Story of Life and Death in the Peoples Temple (Paperback)
by (shelved 116 times as cults)
avg rating 4.12 — 4,010 ratings — published 1997
The Project (Paperback)
by (shelved 114 times as cults)
avg rating 3.50 — 16,061 ratings — published 2021
The Witness Wore Red: The 19th Wife Who Brought Polygamous Cult Leaders to Justice (Hardcover)
by (shelved 108 times as cults)
avg rating 4.06 — 13,238 ratings — published 2013
Last Days (Paperback)
by (shelved 100 times as cults)
avg rating 3.71 — 15,211 ratings — published 2012
Just Like Mother (Hardcover)
by (shelved 99 times as cults)
avg rating 3.70 — 15,593 ratings — published 2022
The Sacred Lies of Minnow Bly (ebook)
by (shelved 97 times as cults)
avg rating 3.95 — 12,916 ratings — published 2015
Prophet's Prey: My Seven-Year Investigation into Warren Jeffs and the Fundamentalist Church of Latter-Day Saints (Hardcover)
by (shelved 95 times as cults)
avg rating 3.99 — 7,093 ratings — published 2011
Dinner for Vampires: Life on a Cult TV Show (While Also in an Actual Cult!)
by (shelved 92 times as cults)
avg rating 4.24 — 97,821 ratings — published 2024
The Last Housewife (Hardcover)
by (shelved 89 times as cults)
avg rating 3.69 — 63,014 ratings — published 2022
The Sound of Gravel (Hardcover)
by (shelved 89 times as cults)
avg rating 4.31 — 65,237 ratings — published 2016
Hollywood Park (Hardcover)
by (shelved 88 times as cults)
avg rating 4.28 — 16,674 ratings — published 2020
Inside Scientology: The Story of America's Most Secretive Religion (Hardcover)
by (shelved 87 times as cults)
avg rating 3.87 — 9,570 ratings — published 2011
A Billion Years: My Escape From a Life in the Highest Ranks of Scientology (Hardcover)
by (shelved 85 times as cults)
avg rating 4.30 — 7,901 ratings — published 2022
Broken Faith: Inside the Word of Faith Fellowship, One of America's Most Dangerous Cults (Hardcover)
by (shelved 84 times as cults)
avg rating 4.14 — 3,934 ratings — published 2020
The Incendiaries (Hardcover)
by (shelved 81 times as cults)
avg rating 3.21 — 25,329 ratings — published 2018
Counting the Cost (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 80 times as cults)
avg rating 4.00 — 156,076 ratings — published 2023
Unfollow: A Journey from Hatred to Hope (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 76 times as cults)
avg rating 4.15 — 18,917 ratings — published 2019
A Thousand Lives: The Untold Story of Hope, Deception, and Survival at Jonestown (Hardcover)
by (shelved 76 times as cults)
avg rating 4.01 — 5,161 ratings — published 2011
Cults: Inside the World's Most Notorious Groups and Understanding the People Who Joined Them (Hardcover)
by (shelved 74 times as cults)
avg rating 3.56 — 3,064 ratings — published 2022
The House of My Mother: A Daughter's Quest for Freedom (Hardcover)
by (shelved 71 times as cults)
avg rating 4.31 — 178,568 ratings — published 2025
Little Eve (Hardcover)
by (shelved 71 times as cults)
avg rating 3.73 — 11,077 ratings — published 2018
The Chosen One (Hardcover)
by (shelved 71 times as cults)
avg rating 3.85 — 15,687 ratings — published 2009
Raven: The Untold Story of the Rev. Jim Jones and His People (Hardcover)
by (shelved 70 times as cults)
avg rating 4.32 — 2,673 ratings — published 1982
Member of the Family: My Story of Charles Manson, Life Inside His Cult, and the Darkness That Ended the Sixties (Hardcover)
by (shelved 69 times as cults)
avg rating 4.19 — 7,892 ratings — published 2017
The Children of Red Peak (Paperback)
by (shelved 65 times as cults)
avg rating 3.39 — 6,260 ratings — published 2020
Last Days (Paperback)
by (shelved 64 times as cults)
avg rating 3.72 — 8,858 ratings — published 2009
A Well-Trained Wife: My Escape from Christian Patriarchy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 61 times as cults)
avg rating 4.29 — 32,240 ratings — published 2024
Underground: The Tokyo Gas Attack and the Japanese Psyche (Paperback)
by (shelved 61 times as cults)
avg rating 3.91 — 22,491 ratings — published 1997
Captive: A Mother's Crusade to Save Her Daughter from the Terrifying Cult Nxivm (Audiobook)
by (shelved 59 times as cults)
avg rating 3.72 — 2,229 ratings — published 2018
The Polygamist's Daughter (Paperback)
by (shelved 58 times as cults)
avg rating 3.64 — 14,556 ratings — published 2017
Not Without My Sister (Paperback)
by (shelved 58 times as cults)
avg rating 3.95 — 8,352 ratings — published 2007
A History of Wild Places (Hardcover)
by (shelved 57 times as cults)
avg rating 3.91 — 67,237 ratings — published 2021
“Professor Dawkins himself stated that “Religion is about turning untested belief, into unshakable truth through the power of institutions, and the passage of time.” This is exactly what is happening with his meme conjecture. He is taking an untestable idea, by scientific standards, and through media and literature and a popular cult following, creating it into a social norm of truth where others believe his idea and propagate it as an unshakeable truth. This also is occurring faster because of computer technology in time. But nonetheless, it is an occurrence within a passage of time.”
― The Leprechaun Delusion
― The Leprechaun Delusion
“Those of us who work in the field of trauma and abuse, whether psychologists, psychoanalysts, social workers, doctors, counselors, or psychotherapists, have been provided with beautiful tools for understanding the impact of trauma. We become adept at understanding the dynamic of why the messenger is always shot and broadcast the Bionic insight of why the visionary is not bearable to the group.
However, when it comes to military mind control, abuse within religious belief groups or cults, and deliberately created dissociative identity disorder, we enter the least resourced field of all.”
― Healing the Unimaginable: Treating Ritual Abuse and Mind Control
However, when it comes to military mind control, abuse within religious belief groups or cults, and deliberately created dissociative identity disorder, we enter the least resourced field of all.”
― Healing the Unimaginable: Treating Ritual Abuse and Mind Control
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