Unpublished Book: Memoirs of a Reluctant Cult Observer (Fiction)
This project has been simmering on the back burner for a long time.
This blog may however not be the appropriate venue.
This is not a promise, threat, or binding agreement of any kind.
Any similarity to actual persons or places is purely coincidental.
Chapter Outline:
- They killed my father and danced on his grave (a slight exaggeration)
- Free school & Unitarians
- Theosophism, Ojai, New Age-y Latecomers
- Mountain Drive, Banana Road, Communes, Hippies, Millionaires and Us
- Pretending to be Into Drugs (at 8 years old)
- Everyone In The Pool (nudity required)
- Los Angeles "dumb-lady" cult style vs. Huntsville "brainwasher's" cult style
- Seizing Control of Minds, Wills and Assets
- The Inner Circle, Monetization, Branches, Franchising & Event Marketing
- The Dark Art of Human Brainwashing (a.k.a. behavior modification, basic training)
- The Very Best of Intentions
- The Carrot & The Stick
- The Escape
- The Jim Jones Legacy
- Signs you may be In a Cult
- A Cult by Any Other Name
- Scientology & Anonymous
- 131 flavors of Jeebus
- Signs a relative or friend is in Jeopardy
- Things that may help with Cult Inoculation
- Modern Trends in Anti-science, Bad Education and "Beliefism"
(c) Copyright Richard Walker all rights reserved
Comments
I think your outline sounds great, but my question is; While many cults merely ask for your money or worship, how much more demanding and dangerous is it to ask that your disciples stop eating?
Example; what I found on the Maha Devi Ascension Movement;
The cult is endorsed by a member named Pleiades MoonStar... acolytes in
Regards,
Richard