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Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism (Hardcover)
by (shelved 392 times as cults)
avg rating 3.80 — 122,568 ratings — published 2021
The Girls (Hardcover)
by (shelved 250 times as cults)
avg rating 3.51 — 246,800 ratings — published 2016
Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith (Paperback)
by (shelved 250 times as cults)
avg rating 4.01 — 228,379 ratings — published 2003
Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief (Hardcover)
by (shelved 244 times as cults)
avg rating 4.04 — 45,402 ratings — published 2013
The Road to Jonestown: Jim Jones and Peoples Temple (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 230 times as cults)
avg rating 4.17 — 20,214 ratings — published 2017
Beyond Belief: My Secret Life Inside Scientology and My Harrowing Escape (Hardcover)
by (shelved 214 times as cults)
avg rating 3.78 — 42,117 ratings — published 2013
Escape (Hardcover)
by (shelved 180 times as cults)
avg rating 3.99 — 46,905 ratings — published 2007
Troublemaker: Surviving Hollywood and Scientology (Hardcover)
by (shelved 179 times as cults)
avg rating 4.07 — 77,812 ratings — published 2015
Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders (Paperback)
by (shelved 176 times as cults)
avg rating 4.06 — 155,305 ratings — published 1974
Breaking Free (Paperback)
by (shelved 156 times as cults)
avg rating 4.12 — 16,635 ratings — published 2017
Sex Cult Nun: Breaking Away from the Children of God, a Wild, Radical Religious Cult (Hardcover)
by (shelved 149 times as cults)
avg rating 3.87 — 10,709 ratings — published 2021
Educated (Hardcover)
by (shelved 145 times as cults)
avg rating 4.46 — 1,912,995 ratings — published 2018
Uncultured: A Memoir (Hardcover)
by (shelved 143 times as cults)
avg rating 4.14 — 20,074 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 139 times as cults)
avg rating 3.95 — 32,069 ratings — published 2008
Don't Call It a Cult: The Shocking Story of Keith Raniere and the Women of NXIVM (Paperback)
by (shelved 123 times as cults)
avg rating 3.90 — 5,750 ratings — published 2021
Black Sheep (Hardcover)
by (shelved 120 times as cults)
avg rating 3.58 — 38,787 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 4.13 — 4,079 ratings — published 1997
The Project (Paperback)
by (shelved 113 times as cults)
avg rating 3.50 — 16,211 ratings — published 2021
The Witness Wore Red: The 19th Wife Who Brought Polygamous Cult Leaders to Justice (Hardcover)
by (shelved 111 times as cults)
avg rating 4.06 — 13,457 ratings — published 2013
Last Days (Paperback)
by (shelved 104 times as cults)
avg rating 3.71 — 16,162 ratings — published 2012
Just Like Mother (Hardcover)
by (shelved 101 times as cults)
avg rating 3.70 — 16,031 ratings — published 2022
Dinner for Vampires: Life on a Cult TV Show (While Also in an Actual Cult!)
by (shelved 99 times as cults)
avg rating 4.24 — 104,938 ratings — published 2024
Prophet's Prey: My Seven-Year Investigation into Warren Jeffs and the Fundamentalist Church of Latter-Day Saints (Hardcover)
by (shelved 99 times as cults)
avg rating 3.98 — 7,182 ratings — published 2011
The Sacred Lies of Minnow Bly (ebook)
by (shelved 98 times as cults)
avg rating 3.95 — 13,041 ratings — published 2015
The Sound of Gravel (Hardcover)
by (shelved 93 times as cults)
avg rating 4.31 — 69,976 ratings — published 2016
A Billion Years: My Escape From a Life in the Highest Ranks of Scientology (Hardcover)
by (shelved 88 times as cults)
avg rating 4.30 — 8,303 ratings — published 2022
Broken Faith: Inside the Word of Faith Fellowship, One of America's Most Dangerous Cults (Hardcover)
by (shelved 87 times as cults)
avg rating 4.14 — 4,089 ratings — published 2020
The Last Housewife (Hardcover)
by (shelved 87 times as cults)
avg rating 3.69 — 66,260 ratings — published 2022
Hollywood Park (Hardcover)
by (shelved 87 times as cults)
avg rating 4.28 — 16,918 ratings — published 2020
Inside Scientology: The Story of America's Most Secretive Religion (Hardcover)
by (shelved 87 times as cults)
avg rating 3.87 — 9,589 ratings — published 2011
The Incendiaries (Hardcover)
by (shelved 83 times as cults)
avg rating 3.21 — 25,463 ratings — published 2018
Counting the Cost (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 79 times as cults)
avg rating 3.99 — 159,548 ratings — published 2023
Cults: Inside the World's Most Notorious Groups and Understanding the People Who Joined Them (Hardcover)
by (shelved 75 times as cults)
avg rating 3.56 — 3,201 ratings — published 2022
Unfollow: A Journey from Hatred to Hope (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 75 times as cults)
avg rating 4.15 — 19,167 ratings — published 2019
A Thousand Lives: The Untold Story of Hope, Deception, and Survival at Jonestown (Hardcover)
by (shelved 73 times as cults)
avg rating 4.01 — 5,184 ratings — published 2011
Little Eve (Hardcover)
by (shelved 72 times as cults)
avg rating 3.73 — 11,500 ratings — published 2018
The Chosen One (Hardcover)
by (shelved 72 times as cults)
avg rating 3.85 — 15,701 ratings — published 2009
The House of My Mother: A Daughter's Quest for Freedom (Hardcover)
by (shelved 71 times as cults)
avg rating 4.28 — 203,707 ratings — published 2025
Raven: The Untold Story of the Rev. Jim Jones and His People (Hardcover)
by (shelved 70 times as cults)
avg rating 4.32 — 2,709 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 67 times as cults)
avg rating 4.19 — 8,012 ratings — published 2017
The Children of Red Peak (Paperback)
by (shelved 66 times as cults)
avg rating 3.39 — 6,509 ratings — published 2020
A Well-Trained Wife: My Escape from Christian Patriarchy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 65 times as cults)
avg rating 4.28 — 36,369 ratings — published 2024
Underground: The Tokyo Gas Attack and the Japanese Psyche (Paperback)
by (shelved 64 times as cults)
avg rating 3.91 — 22,901 ratings — published 1997
Last Days (Paperback)
by (shelved 63 times as cults)
avg rating 3.72 — 9,284 ratings — published 2009
The Polygamist's Daughter (Paperback)
by (shelved 61 times as cults)
avg rating 3.64 — 14,795 ratings — published 2017
Little Heaven (Hardcover)
by (shelved 60 times as cults)
avg rating 3.83 — 12,170 ratings — published 2017
Combatting Cult Mind Control: The #1 Best-selling Guide to Protection, Rescue, and Recovery from Destructive Cults (Paperback)
by (shelved 60 times as cults)
avg rating 4.41 — 1,628 ratings — published 1988
Survivor (Paperback)
by (shelved 59 times as cults)
avg rating 3.93 — 124,818 ratings — published 1999
“Some survivors have found small metallic “implants” in their teeth or ears, and believe these were designed to monitor their location or to broadcast their words or thoughts to the abusers. Such technology has been developed recently for keeping task of animals or persons with dementia.
But to what extent it was used years ago by mind controllers is unknown at this point. At least some of it may be similar to the “bombs” in the stomach, a trick to convince survivors that their abusers monitor them continuously. The presence of an object does not mean it is capable of collecting complex information and sending it back to abusers, or even sending them signals, for twenty or more years as some survivors believe. As with other apparently bizarre beliefs of our survivor clients, we must acknowledge that something happened, and remain open both to the possibility that there was such technology and the possibility that it is yet another deception to convince survivors they cannot escape the grip of their abusers.
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― Healing the Unimaginable: Treating Ritual Abuse and Mind Control
But to what extent it was used years ago by mind controllers is unknown at this point. At least some of it may be similar to the “bombs” in the stomach, a trick to convince survivors that their abusers monitor them continuously. The presence of an object does not mean it is capable of collecting complex information and sending it back to abusers, or even sending them signals, for twenty or more years as some survivors believe. As with other apparently bizarre beliefs of our survivor clients, we must acknowledge that something happened, and remain open both to the possibility that there was such technology and the possibility that it is yet another deception to convince survivors they cannot escape the grip of their abusers.
p205”
― Healing the Unimaginable: Treating Ritual Abuse and Mind Control
“Much of the attraction of the cult has to do with the grace of an early and romantic death. George Orwell once observed that if Napoleon Bonaparte had been cut down by a musket ball as he entered Moscow, he would have been remembered as the greatest general since Alexander. And not only did Guevara die before his ideals did, he died in such a manner as to inspire something akin to superstition. He rode among the poor of the altiplano on a donkey. He repeatedly foresaw and predicted the circumstances of his own death. He was spurned and betrayed by those he claimed to set free. He was by calling a healer of the sick. The photographs of his corpse, bearded and half-naked and lacerated, make an irresistible comparison with paintings of the deposition from Calvary. There is a mystery about his last resting place. Alleged relics are in circulation. There have even been sightings….”
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