Ossiana Tepfenhart shares an unusual benefit of growing up within a cult or cult-adjacent: socially-mandated reading. My best friend growing up was part of the Moonies cult.

Google “Prem Rawat”, formally known as the Guru Maharaji Ji, and you’ll find photos of a smiley, round-faced man in his 60s. He’s an “author and orator” who promotes “personal peace ...

Noah Lyles opened up about the "super strict" cult he grew up in, noting that it made him struggle to understand his beliefs. Olympian Noah Lyles Reveals He Grew Up In A Cult – Hollywood Life ...

Writer and director Bexy Cameron was raised in the infamous Children of God cult before escaping at just 15. She tells Helen Coffey about her stranger-than-fiction childhood, the struggles of ...

Jinger Duggar Vuolo said her childhood was ruled by "fear" due in large part to the "cult-like" teachings of the religion she followed, the Institute in Basic Life Principles.

Jinger Duggar Vuolo Says Growing Up Was ‘Harmful’ Under Parents’ ‘Cult-Like’ Religious Beliefs. Jinger Duggar said she no longer follows the fundamentalist Christian teachings under ...

"Coercive control or groupthink meant that those of us growing up in the Children of God cult didn’t get a chance to reflect on why boundaries were important, much less have the agency to ...

How does a McDonald’s manager with three young children end up becoming a cult leader who believes she has birthed the entire human race, been reincarnated as Jesus, Joan of Arc, and Marilyn ...

The Love Has Won cult made headline sin 2021 when mummified remains of its leader Amy Carlson, known as Mother God, were found in a sleeping bag wrapped in Christmas lights near Crestone, Colorado.

Among the important things I learned out in the wild: Apex predators are omnivores and have lots of options. If they surmise you’ll put up a fight, they’ll likely opt for smaller prey.

Jinger Duggar Vuolo on Growing Up Under 'Cult-Like' Religious Beliefs: 'I Was Terrified of the Outside World' The former Counting On star tells PEOPLE: "The teaching I grew up under was harmful ...