Religious Cults

🔥 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 ...

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.

O que Paula Picarelli faz neste audiolivro é um prodígio. Tudo o que é narrado aconteceu de verdade. Para não ser processada, se viu obrigada a romancear os acontecimentos, mudou nomes, misturou uma cena verídica a outra e assim construiu um romance potente, com o equilíbrio e o controle de uma escritora talentosa e experiente. É um audiolivro sobre a manipulação psicológica que as seitas religiosas exercem sobre os fiéis, alguns deles tão brilhantes quanto a autora. Mas é sobretudo a história de como a inteligência pode nos salvar do fanatismo. Uma obra fundamental.

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.

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.

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.

One woman’s search for affirmation and significance trapped her and caused her to lose everything of value in her life. Deceived by Scientology, mysticism, and years in a toxic and restrictive cult, she lost her marriage, relationships, home, her publishing company, and her reputation. In this candid and heartfelt memoir, Athena’s Dean Holtz tells how her eyes were opened and how God restored all that had been lost, and gave her the desires of her heart, including a loving, godly husband.

This audiobook will document the rise to power of the most notorious cult leader of all time. Jim Jones was directly responsible for the deaths of over 900 of his followers. Many of them children. The story of the Jonestown is one of betrayed hope. Jones offered poor and needed people a promised land and in return for giving him their resources and trust, he took their lives.

Jim Jones convinced his 1000 followers they would all have to commit suicide since he was going to die. Shoko Asahara convinced his followers to release a weapon of mass destruction, the deadly sarin gas, on a Tokyo subway. These are a few of the doomsday cults examined in this audiobook by best-selling author Alan R. Warren. Its focus is on cults whose destructive behavior was due in large part to their apocalyptic beliefs or doomsday movements. This audiobook examines how a social movement grows into a full religion and when it does not.

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?

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.

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...

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 ...

In 1994, 14-year-old Stefanie Hinrichs dreamed of owning a horse, leaving school and marrying Keanu Reeves. But God had other plans for the teenager. Her family belonged to a controversial Doomsday cult led by self-proclaimed Messiah William Kamm, also known as the 'Little Pebble', who was building a new promised land for his followers deep in the Australian bush. Stefanie was forced to become the false prophet's child bride - one of 84 mystical spouses chosen by the Lord to bear 27 children for his new heavenly dynasty.

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.

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.

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.

This book came out of a life-changing episode of "perfect storm" dimensions. As a 65-year-old man, life as I had known it became a force-10 gale. My career had crashed, my marriage of 27 years had ended suddenly, and I was nearly broke. AA was no longer the help it had been for me - no longer the flotation device or life preserver tossed to a victim who had washed overboard. Instead, it offered virtually no solutions at all - because I had finally outgrown it - and according to AA, you're not supposed to do that.