Religious Cults

The goal of some cult leaders was wealth and power, while others were after comfort or sex. The darkest and most notorious cults and their leaders sought to spread their evil messages through violence and mass murder, through war and genocidal acts. From the Thuggee cult that inspired the term "thug" to the brown shirts of Germany who would become the most destructive cult of all time, the Nazis.

Investigators and Central Florida residents were horrified when 16-year-old vampire cult leader Rod Ferrell was arrested and charged with bludgeoning a cult member's parents. When they realized the slain couple's 15-year-old daughter was missing, they feared she was a victim, too. Detectives and journalists swarming over three states soon uncovered a web of blood-drinking occult rituals, illicit sex, wildly dysfunctional families, and spiritual warfare.

Tina's struggle continues in The Terrorist Maker. Surrounded by murderers her only chance to survive is to start using her gift. His gaze is stony, his eyelids at half-mast. And I can’t look at him at all, which is why I’m lying with my eyes closed. I’m afraid to see something frightening in these eyes. But I feel that I need to look. Otherwise, this ‘frightening thing’ inside him will suffocate me. I realize, that if I don’t do this, I’ll be left to die exactly like that man, about whom they later simply forgot. Therefore, however frightening and difficult it might be, I’m ...

Born into the Church of Immortal Consciousness, Danny Rensch spent his childhood navigating the isolated confines of a cult. Despite psychological manipulation, physical abuse, and neglect, he persevered. An international chess master and world-class commentator, Rensch's remarkable journey led him to being the face of Chess.com, one of the largest online gaming platforms in the world. With unflinching honesty, Rensch recounts his life, starting from the moment he discovered chess in the summer of 1995, all the way up to being at the center of the most explosive cheating scandal in history.

Follow me in this guide to the Wiccan faith and ideals, where you'll find out that we believe in tolerance and acceptance above everything else. Let me shake off the mystery and the seriousness that plagues Wiccan people this day and age. I'm here to give you the straight answers you're looking for.

Bexy was born into the Children of God, one of the world's most notorious cults. She was nine years old when she experienced her first exorcism, held in a secret commune deep in the British countryside. At 10, she was placed on Silence Restriction, forced to be silent for a whole year. Even from an early age, she knew what was happening was not right. At the age of 15, she escaped, leaving behind her parents and 11 siblings.

A mind-bending YA thriller where small town secrets run deeper than reality itself. High school grad Charlie Tanner thought it would be a simple trip—drive a van full of church kids to summer camp in Boonville, Missouri, then head back home. But nothing about Boonville is simple. After a strange accident just outside of town, Charlie makes it to Boonville... only to find the kids are missing, his phone won’t connect to anyone back home, and the local sheriff treats him like a suspect instead of a witness. Something is wrong here. Very wrong. As days blur into something stranger, Charlie...

As an adult, Lauren Hough has had many identities: an airman in the U.S. Air Force, a cable guy, a bouncer at a gay club. As a child, however, she had none. Growing up as a member of the infamous cult The Children of God, Hough had her own self robbed from her. The cult took her all over the globe - to Germany, Japan, Texas, Chile - but it wasn't until she finally left for good that Lauren understood she could have a life beyond 'The Family'. Along the way, she's loaded up her car and started over, trading one life for the next.

When Lily Dunn was six years old, her father left for India to join the cult of Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh. She grew up enthralled by the myth of him—a brilliant, charismatic writer and entrepreneur who would appear with gifts from faraway places. Yet he was also a compulsive liar whose pursuit of transcendence took him from sex addiction, via the Rajneesh cult, to a relentless chase of money, which ended in ruin and finally addiction to alcohol and prescription drugs.

Do you ever wonder what decisions will shape your destiny? For Lindsay, one of those decisions was made at the young age of 13, when she converted to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints—known to the world as "the Mormon church". Over the course of a decade, Lindsay would take a journey into one of the most secretive and powerful religious organizations in the world, a journey that would cause her to lose her true self as she submitted to the doctrine of the Mormon church. Little did she know that two people would come into her life and take her on a new journey.

A lo largo de los años, miles de devotos han experimentado la poderosa presencia de la Santa Muerte en sus vidas, recibiendo su guía, protección y milagros en momentos de necesidad. En este libro, se recopilan impactantes testimonios de fieles que han sido testigos de su intercesión en temas de salud, amor, justicia, dinero y protección. Relatos recopilados por Juan Ambrosio, asesor de la Red de la Santa Muerte en México, con la colaboración de la escritora Laila Pita.

God Bless America lifts the veil on strange and unusual religious beliefs and practices in the modern-day United States. Do Satanists really sacrifice babies? Do exorcisms involve swearing and spinning heads? Are the Amish allowed to drive cars and use computers? Offering a close look at snake handling, new age spirituality, Santeria spells, and satanic rituals, this book offers more than mere armchair research.

One of the most fascinating talks by Osho on meditation. We gain a deeper understanding and an actual experience about meditation by listening to this talk which brings us into a space of meditation. "Meditation is the very center of my whole effort. It is the very womb out of which you are going to be re-born. But it is very difficult to verbalize it. To say something about meditation is a contradiction in terms. It is something which you can have, which you can be, but by its very nature you cannot say what it is."

You say that love and hate are one; but I see more hate in the world than love. At the same time, you say that enlightenment is neither love nor hate. Are you speaking of two different qualities of love? How does this fit with your message of love?

🔥 They call me a rebel. A traitor. A threat to their perfect world. But I’ll show them what real danger looks like. On Halcyon, questioning the faith isn’t just forbidden—it’s deadly. Now I’m paying the price for a crime I didn’t commit, sentenced to the kind of “reintegration” that breaks minds and buries souls. But I’d rather take my chances with the sharks than spend another second as their prisoner. So I jump. When the icy water drags me down, I think it’s over—until a stranger pulls me from the depths. He’s dark and dangerous, with secrets swirling in his ...

Imagine a place where you are accepted and loved, where there is complete honesty and transparency, where you can be yourself and no longer have to strive to be someone else. Envision a safe haven where you could live in perfect peace and have everything you needed and wanted. That was the dream - the hope - that Trinity Foundation offered and that we naively believed. I Can’t Hear God Anymore is an inspiring and instructive example of how normal people caught in the skillful manipulations of an abusive cult can find their way back to spiritual and psychological health.

Harrison Mooney was born to a West African mother and adopted as an infant by a white evangelical family. Growing up as a Black child, Harry’s racial identity is mocked and derided, while at the same time he is made to participate in the fervour of his family’s revivalist church. Confused and crushed by fundamentalist dogma and consistently abused for his colour, Harry must transition from child to young adult while navigating and surviving zealotry, paranoia and prejudice.

It's an exciting new suspense trilogy about a cult! Three women fight against the Sanctuary of the Prophet in three separate stories. She Lied - Kara King was asked by the Sanctuary eight years earlier to set up a journalist, Jim Hollis, due to his negative articles about the prophet. Because of what she did, he served seven years in prison and now wants justice. He wants her to tell the truth. A Suitable Pawn - Rachel King is asked to help the Sanctuary bring a wayward parishioner, Donovan Boomer back into the fold. He's a millionaire and they want his money. With his help she finds out a ...

🔥 Escape was just the beginning. Welcome to Halcyon—paradise in name, prison in truth. They preach faith and purity, but the only thing holy about this place is how well they hide their lies. I washed up here, accused of crimes I didn’t commit, and now I’m trapped on an island where desire is a sin—and questioning the rules makes you a target. Connor wasn’t supposed to be part of the plan. With his dangerous eyes and rebel grin, he’s everything I shouldn’t want—and exactly who I need. He says we can take down the people in power. He says freedom is within reach. But every...

This book is the second in a series. It's a continuation of the best of the best true stories about Sir David, as he prefers to be called. His stories are very funny, interesting, and captivating - mostly about the Mormon church and its crazy ways, history, and beliefs, as well as his experiences being both in and out of the church, having resigned twice. He has been married six times and raised 14 children; most of them are still LDS and have rejected him because he resigned.