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Welcome to Eden

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1943 U.S. government-produced film "Japanese Relocation" addresses relocation camps

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24th May

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Youtube video about the History of the Children of God cult

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Youtube video about the History of the Children of God cult

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The Truth About The Children Of God Cult

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Brief History of Jim Jones and the People's Temple

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Brief History of Jim Jones and the People's Temple

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Brief History of Charles Manson and the Manson Family

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Brief History of Charles Manson and the Manson Family

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https://www.britannica.com/biography/Charles-Manson

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https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2gB3pa7b8jpXPkvQWWV2xW?si=47e79ba5e9db422b

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Tech day

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21st April

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Fate's arrow, when expected, travels slow.” “Open your mind to what I shall disclose, and hold it fast within you; he who hears, but does not hold what he has heard, learns nothing.” “all things created have an order in themselves, and this begets the form that lets the universe resemble God.”

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The People's Temple

Empty bottles of cyanide found at the commune known as Jonestown.
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The epitome of the charismatic cult leader, Jim Jones was a preacher from the Pentecostal tradition. Although white, Jones attracted a large African American following because of his preaching style as well as dedication to integration and racial equality. His teachings were influenced by liberation theology and socialist beliefs.

Jones began the People's Temple in the 1950s in Indianapolis. After reading in Esquire magazine about places to survive a nuclear holocaust, he moved his congregation to Ukiah, Calif., in 1965. In the next five years, the People's Temple membership went from less than a hundred to thousands. With thriving churches in San Francisco and Los Angeles, Jones also built up a significant amount of political clout.

Meanwhile, Jones began building a commune called "Jonestown" in Guyana, a socialist-led country in South America. In 1977, when Jones heard that New West magazine was to publish an expose on life in the People's Temple as "a mixture of Spartan regimentation, fear and self-imposed humiliation" he and his congregation quickly fled to the commune [source: Kilduff].

Convinced by former members and relatives of members to go, U.S. Congressmen Leo Ryan flew down to visit Jonestown to learn more about it. Just before Ryan was about to leave on Nov. 18, 1978, Jones's men arrived at the airstrip and killed the congressman, as well as several others. That same day, Jones convinced his congregation to kill themselves. More than 900 people died, including 276 children.

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The line between delusion and what the rest of us believe may be blurrier than we think, Zoë Heller writes.

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And also “The Giver” by  Lois Lowry is a good example of a cult. The leaders were trying to build a perfect society, but from the side it does look like a cult! Don’t wanna spoiler here for those who didn’t read or watch it!
There is a movie as well!
But the book is better!

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We can even take it and rewrite the text a bit, but this looks like a cult for me
Just an example
Even Coca Cola advertisement looks creepy

And I like this “I’d like to buy a world a home and furnish it with love”

Kinda tricky one..

!Cults!

I was looking for something extreme as the “Jonestown” luckily I didn’t find smth like this , most of cults are about God basically. So there are two examples

- Raëlism
One of the most notorious cults of the modern era, Raëlism began in 1974 with a Frenchman named Claude Vorilhon. Calling himself Räel, Vorilhon claimed he had a vision of an alien spacecraft in southern France that was full of beings who told him humans were the future and handed him a Bible. Over six days, the head alien (named Yahweh, naturally) explained to Vorilhon how the Old Testament is an actual record of humanity's early days, and that he must build an embassy to welcome the aliens when they fully return.

For most of the next three decades, Räelians were basically a kooky hippie cult that worshiped space aliens. They opposed aggression, championed science, and liked to be disrobed and have intercourse with lots of people. They amassed a following of 20,000 and became extremely popular in Asia. Then, in 2002, things got weird. Or weirder, at least. A Räelian-owned company called Clonaid claimed to have done the impossible and cloned a human, a baby girl they named Eve.

Everyone went nuts, with the White House weighing in, lawsuits filed, and claims of a dozen other human clones popping up. To date, no evidence of any actual clones has appeared, but the company continues selling an "embryonic cell fusion device" for over $9,000 - despite nobody knowing what it does.

- The Brethren
Also known as "Body of Christ" and "Garbage Eaters," the Brethren are an apocalyptic offshoot of the '70s Jesus movement, eschewing worldly possessions and earthly pleasures to purify themselves for the coming end of the world. Brethren members essentially live as vagrants, doing odd jobs to survive, eating trash, avoiding bathing and medical treatment, and giving whatever money they do make to the group.

They also forbid dancing and laughing (until the return of Jesus), bar members from communicating with family, and forbid contact between binary genders. Group founder Jim Roberts passed in December 2015, leaving the future of the secretive cult unclear

- And I was thinking that our “cult/organization” shall have its name as well!

!!!Thousands of British adults and children are being deceived into joining UK cult groups, new research has found, with experts calling the phenomenon a “hidden epidemic” that the government has failed to address.

An estimated 2,000 cult groups are operating across the country, but ministers have not acted to stop them because of fears that they cannot legally distinguish between religion and semi-criminal cults, a charity leader said!

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Most people have their own vague idea of what constitutes a cult. But "cult" is one of those slippery, nebulous terms that are difficult to define. Strict definitions tend to be either too wide or too narrow. To complicate matters, what one considers a cult is often a matter of opinion. But, as Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart said about another ill-defined topic, people tend to think that they know it when they see it.

Sidestepping the controversy, sociologists don't like to use the pejorative term "cult." Instead, they like to talk about new religious movements ( NRMs), which can be more widely defined. NRMs hold beliefs that are far outside of the mainstream. They are often characterized by making strict demands on the lifestyle of their members, such as giving up possessions, professions and contact with family to live in a commune with other members. Many have charismatic, authoritarian leaders whose followers believe have special prophetic powers. These leaders often prophesize about an imminent apocalypse.

We'll explore the most infamous cults that have gained notoriety either because they were so successful or because they met a bloody and horrifying end.

The Unification Church, formally known as Holy Spirit Association for the Unification of World Christianity, was founded by Rev. Sun Myung Moon. Born in North Korea, Moon claims to have received a vision when he was 16 years old that told him he was called to complete Christ's mission on earth. According to Moon, Christ was crucified before he was able to fulfill his mission of marrying and having perfect children. Moon, then, saw himself as the Messiah.

At odds with the teachings of his Presbyterian Church, he was excommunicated and formed his own church in the 1950s. As the Messiah, Moon claimed that salvation was only possible through pledging obedience to him, and, after seven years of service, taking a spouse picked by him. The religion became known for its mass weddings, where he presides over the marriages of hundreds of people at one time.

Already a successful businessman, in the 1970s he moved his headquarters to New York, where he attracted new members to his movement as well as widespread suspicion. As a focus of the anti- cult movement gaining momentum at this time, parents of church members began kidnapping and "deprogramming" their children. They also filed lawsuits, and by 1982, Moon was convicted of tax evasion. Now known as the Family Federation for World Peace and Unification, the church is still active.

An untraditional Indian guru, Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh embraced earthly pleasures. He himself owned 93 Rolls Royces, and he promoted an indulgence in sex. In fact, his ideas were largely rejected in India itself, and he found larger followings in the U.S. and Europe.

Rajneesh began his congregation in India in the 1970s, setting up a headquarters in Pune in 1974. However, after facing increasing hostility there, Rajneesh moved to the United States in 1981 and soon purchased land in Oregon, where followers built their own city called Rajneeshpuram. Ma Anand Sheela, an Indian woman who helped organize Rajneeshpuram became a member of Rajneesh's inner circle. As Rajneesh no longer spoke in public, Sheela took control of daily operations in the city.

By 1985, Rajneeshpuram had more than 2,500 residents, but had become embroiled in local tensions. During the previous year, Sheela instituted the "Share-a-home" program, where the city bused in thousands of homeless people in order to register them as voters there in a failed attempt to influence the Wasco County court elections. Around the same time, Sheela and other leaders of the commune orchestrated the first bioterrorist attack in U.S. history by poisoning restaurant food in the large town of Dalles. In this attempt to reduce the voter population, they sickened 750 people.

In 1985, Sheela and other leaders fled the commune, and Rajneesh was deported for immigration fraud. Despite his death in 1990, Raneesh's movement still lives. A 2018 Netflix documentary, "Wild Wild Country," chronicled the group.

In the 1960s, after hearing of the large hippie population in Huntington Beach, Calif., a Christian minister, David Berg, moved there to recruit the young people. It wasn't hard for him, and the hippies were quickly attracted to his anti-establishment attitude. Many gave up their jobs and donated their savings to the group to live communally in Berg's house. The group moved to Arizona when Berg claimed to receive a revelation that California would be struck by an earthquake. Members began to call Berg, "Moses" and their group "the Children of God."

In the early 1970s, the Children of God recruited all over the country and even set up international centers. By 1974, it had more than 4000 members in 70 countries [source: Sreenivasan]. Berg wrote a series of letters to all his communities to relate his teachings. In 1978, he reorganized the group, renaming it "The Family."

However, the U.S. anti- cult movement targeted the Children of God, and many parents of members kidnapped and deprogrammed their children. Most controversial was Berg's progressive attitude towards sex. He encouraged open sexual relationships and experimentation. The group has also been accused of encouraging child sex abuse. In what was called "flirty fishing," he encouraged his members to engage in sexual relationships to attract new members. By the late 1980s, after dealing with the problem of sexually transmitted diseases, the group formally ended this practice.

Now called "The Family International," this group is still very active, despite Berg's death in 1994.

Founded by four ex-Roman Catholic priests, two ex-nuns and one ex-prostitute, the Movement for the Restoration of the Ten Commandments of God (MRTCG) in Uganda emphasized the importance of the Ten Commandments. Through visions of the Virgin Mary, the leaders were convinced that the Roman Catholic Church had abandoned the Commandments.

The leaders also had doomsday prophesies. They predicted the apocalypse would occur on Dec. 31, 1999. In anticipation of this, members sold their possessions. However, when the end of the world didn't come that day, the leaders quickly altered their prediction and they claimed that the Virgin Mary would come on March 17, 2000, to save the faithful and bring them to heaven. Still believing the prophesies, members held a feast on March 16. They killed some cattle for the occasion and even ordered crates of Coca-Cola.

When March 17 arrived, police discovered that an explosion and fire had killed hundreds of the group's members. Although at first this was assumed to be a mass suicide, the evidence and subsequent uncovering of more bodies at other sites soon pointed to murder. Leaders had murdered the members, perhaps because they were unable to repay them for giving away their possessions after the prophesy failed to materialize. It was never determined whether the leaders killed themselves or fled the country.

Formed in 1987 by Master Asahara Shoko, Aum Shinrikyo was a Japanese cult. Asahara had originally started a yoga school, but after a trip to India in which he met the Dalai Lama and achieved enlightenment in the Himalayas, he changed the name of his school to Aum Shinrikyo (Aum Supreme Truth) and began teaching a combination of Buddhism, Hinduism and Christianity. He gained many followers as he claimed to embody a god, and he secured significant financial donations. The group became increasingly radical, and defectors met violent ends.

By 1995, the group had about 50,000 members, mostly in Russia. By this time, Asahara had begun preparing for war and expected Aum Shinrikyo to take over the government. To deflect police attention away from the group's activities and instigate the violence he prophecized, Asahara orchestrated an attack on the Tokyo subway.

On March 20, 1995, five members of Aum Shinrikyo boarded the subway on different trains. When they arrived at Kasumigaseki, they each placed a package wrapped in newspaper under their seats. They punctured the packages with the tips of their umbrellas and rushed off the train as gas seeped out. They succeeded in killing 12 people and sickening 5,500. Authorities traced the attack to the group and arrested the leadership, largely dismantling the group.

Joseph Di Mambro and Luc Jouret founded the Order of the Solar Temple in Geneva in 1984. It was one of many groups that have seen itself as a revival of the Medieval Knights Templar. Jouret claimed to be both Christ and the reincarnation of one member of the 14th century order. The leaders also prophesized that Di Mambro's daughter, Emmanuelle, would take the group's members to a planet that revolved around the star Sirius after their earthly death.

The Order of the Solar Temple was a doomsday cult. Di Mambro and Jouret believed the end of the world would come in the mid-1990s. However, the group lost several members, including Emmanuelle, after what leaders claimed was a "vision" was exposed as a hoax [source: Clarke].

Finally, in 1994, Di Mambro and Jouret believed the end was near and it was time for the transit to the new planet. In order to enter a higher spiritual plane, 53 members of the order committed suicide or were murdered in Canada and Switzerland on Oct. 4 and 5, 1994. The buildings were also set on fire after the deaths, and Di Mambro and Jouret's remains were found among the bodies. It was later revealed that Di Mambro had also recently ordered the murder of an infant he believed to be the anti-Christ. Sixteen more members of the order died in France in December 1995, and five more after that in Quebec in March 1997.

David Koresh, born Vernon Howell in 1959, was the leader of a Christian sect that would meet a violent and controversial end in Waco, Texas, that would devastate the country. After being expelled from the Church of the Seventh Day Adventists as a young man, Koresh soon joined an offshoot called the Branch Davidians. While there, he shared a special friendship and affair with the leader, Lois Roden, who named him as her successor.

Among Koresh's controversial teachings as leader of the Branch Davidians was his New Light doctrine. This declared that all women were his spiritual wives, even underage girls and those women who were already married. He declared himself a messiah, albeit an imperfect one, and preached that the apocalypse was imminent. Koresh amounted a vast arsenal of firearms and faced suspicion of child abuse at his church center, Mt. Carmel. The cult's members overlooked his sexual abuse because it was his call from God.

Based on weapons charges, the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (ATF) raided Mt. Carmel in February 1993. After a shoot-out and stand-off lasting 51 days, the ATF finally came in and battered the walls of the center, sending in tear gas. A fire broke out, killing more than 80 members, including about 20 children and Koresh himself.

In the 1970s, Marshall Applewhite and Bonnie Nettles came to believe that they were the two witnesses referenced in chapter 11 of the Book of Revelation. They began preaching and gaining followers in California and Oregon with apocalyptic prophecies about how salvation would come (for those who were prepared) in the form of a spaceship. There, their bodies would be kept in a cocoon state to transform their bodies for heaven.

The group was known as "Human Individual Metamorphosis," and then later "Total Overcomers Anonymous," before becoming " Heaven's Gate" in the 1990s. Members had to live with the group as well as give up their possessions and family. To perfect themselves for salvation, Applewhite encouraged members to detach themselves from emotion and give up sex entirely. Members dressed androgynously with loose clothing and closely-shaved shaved hair.

Never consisting of more than about 60 people, the small group receded from public during much of its existence, finally coming out to proselytize once again in 1993. Over the next few years, using the emerging popularity of the Internet, they set up a Web site to help spread their message. In 1997, the Hale-Bopp comet was approaching close to earth, and a rumor suggested that a UFO was following it. The group took this rumor very seriously and became convinced that their salvation would finally come.

In March 1997, all 39 members were found dead from apparent suicide in preparation for their transition to heaven.

Charles Manson was born in 1934 to a 16-year-old single mother. After his mother was imprisoned for armed robbery, he lived with his uncle and aunt in West Virginia and soon turned to a life of petty crime himself. He spent much of his juvenile and young adult life in reformatories or prison. When he was released in 1967, he moved to San Francisco and attracted a small but devout group of young people that became known as "the Family."

Unlike most cults, the Manson Family was not primarily religion-based, however Charles Manson did dabble in Satanism as well as Scientology and held bizarre, quasi-religious ideas. He also predicted a violent race war in which African Americans would prevail but would need to then turn to surviving whites for proper leadership. He planned to have his Manson Family hide out during the race war and then emerge to take control when it was over.

To help instigate this race war, Manson ordered his followers to carry out murders, intending them to be blamed on blacks. In August 1968, Manson family members killed several people in a Los Angeles house, including actress Sharon Tate (the pregnant wife of director Roman Polanski) and coffee-heiress Abigail Folger. The next night, Manson Family members murdered two others. In both cases, the killers repeatedly stabbed victims and wrote messages on the walls in their blood. Manson and his cohorts were sentenced to death, but got life in prison after California banned the death penalty.

The epitome of the charismatic cult leader, Jim Jones was a preacher from the Pentecostal tradition. Although white, Jones attracted a large African American following because of his preaching style as well as dedication to integration and racial equality. His teachings were influenced by liberation theology and socialist beliefs.

Jones began the People's Temple in the 1950s in Indianapolis. After reading in Esquire magazine about places to survive a nuclear holocaust, he moved his congregation to Ukiah, Calif., in 1965. In the next five years, the People's Temple membership went from less than a hundred to thousands. With thriving churches in San Francisco and Los Angeles, Jones also built up a significant amount of political clout.

Meanwhile, Jones began building a commune called "Jonestown" in Guyana, a socialist-led country in South America. In 1977, when Jones heard that New West magazine was to publish an expose on life in the People's Temple as "a mixture of Spartan regimentation, fear and self-imposed humiliation" he and his congregation quickly fled to the commune [source: Kilduff].

Convinced by former members and relatives of members to go, U.S. Congressmen Leo Ryan flew down to visit Jonestown to learn more about it. Just before Ryan was about to leave on Nov. 18, 1978, Jones's men arrived at the airstrip and killed the congressman, as well as several others. That same day, Jones convinced his congregation to kill themselves. More than 900 people died, including 276 children.

Originally Published: Oct 6, 2011

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-Being dragged down and 'drowned' by other ensemble members
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https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/05/06/my-childhood-in-a-cult

https://amp.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/jun/01/childhood-in-cult-hard-imagine-survival-truly-unbelievable

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My mum and dad split when I was very young.

We grew up with my mum and my stepdad. There were five children, so it was a big family.

When I was about nine years old, we moved to Australia.

Things were good here, but that was when my mum started getting into different sorts of beliefs.

It began with tame things like crystals and reiki and tarot cards.

I guess my mum was drawn to the idea that her life had a deeper spiritual meaning, and she was always trying to find the answers.

When I was finishing high school, my stepfather was diagnosed with cancer.

He and my mum were also going through a divorce, so it was a very traumatic time for the family.

It was around this time that I first heard her mention a new group she was part of.

She made a lot of friends through this community. Good friends.

That was the first sign something was wrong, because she stopped seeing the friends she already had and just melded into this new group.

We began not seeing her very much because she would always be at an event or on a retreat, or saving money to go on a trip with them.

We knew that it was more intense than reiki or crystals.

It sounded like a very strong religion, and we were worried that it was going to cause a bit of damage.

Turns out, we were right.

Emma says her mum became interested in "different beliefs" back when she was a kid.(Unsplash: Jen Theodore)

Aliens, diets and past lives

When we first heard the group was called Universal Medicine, I thought it was something scientific.

They have very strict rules about the food you're allowed to eat and times you're allowed to sleep or be awake.

They say if you follow their rules that you'll be as healthy as you can be.

But it gets a lot stranger.

If you or someone you know needs help, contact:

They believe that these aliens are controlling us.

And apparently if you burp, you're releasing negative energy and you're releasing demons from your body.

A lot of it is about the repercussions for your actions.

They have beliefs about children who have autism or a disability, that they're getting punished in this life because of something they did in the past life.

To me, because I'm an atheist and a very logical person, that sounds so judgmental and dangerous.

When you say their beliefs in a list, it's all so disjointed. It doesn't make any sense.

But they have books that they've written, and there's a course you can study - which you pay for, everything has a cost - and they've gone really deep into making it seem very scientific and professional, and that "this is all truth".

Emma says her mum has referred to Universal Medicine as "her religion".(ABC RN: Nicole Cleary)

An intervention

It's not a religion, it's not an organisation, it's not a community that's based on good things.

It's dangerous and harmful. It is what I would call a cult.

And as we had those revelations, our relationship with Mum became more fraught.

We couldn't accept or ignore it anymore, so we held what you could call an intervention of sorts.

All of us kids got together with Mum and said why we were worried for her.

We wanted her to know, "We might not believe the same things you do, but we love you, and we're here for you".

But it didn't work.

She began to feel like we were attacking her, and that we weren't listening to what she believed to be the truth.

I had a four month-old baby, at that point, and I was really worried some of her beliefs would affect my child.

I didn't want my son to grow up around someone that could potentially harm him - if she babysat him and she didn't feed him properly, or if he grew up to have a disability, I didn't want her to be telling him that he was evil in a past life.

So, I made the decision to make a boundary and step away.

Emma fears that her mum won't have a safety net as she ages.(Unsplash: Jon Tyson)

'Roller coaster of grief'

Now, I'm eight months pregnant with our second child.

My biggest fear is that we've lost my mum.

The last few years have been a roller coaster of grief, where we're realising that we've lost or are losing her, and there's not much that we can do about it.

Another thing I'm really scared about is that my mum is going to be in a lot of financial trouble.

She's in her early 60s and she doesn't own a home, and all of her earnings - apart from the obvious things like rent and groceries - she puts into this organisation.

I'm really worried she'll become an older lady and have no safety net, no money, and no help from anyone because she's lost all of her family.

They have control over her, whether she understands that or not.

I know that 10 years ago, if she had no contact with all five of her children, she would have done something about it.

But she's not like that anymore. She's changed a lot.

We've tried so many things and we just can't seem to get her back.

The 'charlatan' and the 'socially dangerous cult'

Universal Medicine (UM) was founded in 1999.

It hosts workshops and retreats, self-publishes books, and offers "healing services" at its clinics in Australia and abroad.

Its founder, Serge Benhayon, is a former bankrupt tennis coach who claims to be the reincarnation of Leonardo Da Vinci.

Mr Benhayon has no medical qualifications, but labels himself a "teacher, practitioner and trainer of therapies that are complementary to medicine".

He has amassed millions of dollars since founding the group, and attracted a great deal of controversy.

Serge Benhayon, who has no medical qualifications, has followers around the world.(Facebook: Serge Benhayon)

In 2018, a Supreme Court jury found Mr Benhayon to be a "charlatan" who "swindles cancer patients" and engaged in "healing fraud that harms people".

One former UM member, Judith McIntyre - a breast cancer survivor - left Mr Benhayon $800,000 before she died in 2014. In her final months, he arranged legal advice, and advised Ms McIntyre on her will, diet and dealings with her family.

The jury found that Mr Benhayon exploited followers by "targeting them to leave him bequests", and that ultimately UM was a "socially dangerous cult".

Getting a loved one out

Rachel Bernstein is a marriage and family therapist who has been working with former cult members and their families for the past 30 years.

She is acutely aware of the impact these groups have on loved ones, like Emma.

"Families are concerned about their loved one getting derailed and pulled into a community that is so intense, where there is a constant 'fix' that they're getting - similar to any kind of addiction," Ms Bernstein explains.

"They don't know what it's going to take to get their loved one out.

"They also don't know why their loved one believes the story, why they're believing things that haven't been proven."

Ms Bernstein advises family members in this situation "not to use the 'C-word' [cult]" as it "creates defensiveness".

"Instead, try to maintain communication, even if it means acting like you're fine with what the person is doing, so you can keep having conversations.

"[That creates] safe enough dialogue, where they will start to hint that they're not as happy. You won't find that out unless you take a step back, otherwise people will dig their heels in.

"What also helps is being kind. In a cult, people pretend, but ultimately, they don't care about you at all.

"If [other] people in their life are kind, showing interest and caring, that helps erode what the 'cult' is presenting about the rest of the world ... so it creates a domino effect, because [then the person realises] if the group's wrong about that, they're probably wrong about other things."

The aim, she says, is for the client to realise themselves that their community is a harmful cult. Once they do, they're more likely to leave.

But these conversations weigh more heavily on family members like Emma.

"The positive side of me would like to say, 'Don't give up hope'," she says.

"Keep trying. Keep showing this family member that you love them, that you support them, and that you want to be a part of their life.

After all, Emma says, if they have a connection to the outside world, there's always a chance they can come back.
If this story has raised any issues for you or someone you know, support is available from Lifeline on 13 11 14. This story comes from ABC Radio National's podcast RN Presents: This Much is True. Find it on ABC Listen, Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, RSS or wherever you listen to podcasts.

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FILMS
- The Menu
- Fight Club
- Trainspotting
- Midsommar
- Don't Worry Darling

BOOKS
- The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood
- The Power - Naomi Alderman
- Only Ever Yours - Louise O'Neill
- Beauty Queens - Libba Bray

TV SHOWS
- The X Files - 'The Field Where I Died'; 'Gender Bender'; 'Roadrunners'; 'Red Museum'; 'Die Hand Die Verletzt'; 'Home'; 'Our Town'; 'Nothing Lasts Forever'; 'Signs and Wonders'

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'To me death is not a fearfull thing, its living thats treacherous'
'If we can't live and be, then lets die and be'
'We've had as much of this world were going to get, lets just be done with it, lets be done with the agony of it'
'All were doing is taking a drink to go to sleep, thats what death is, sleep, whatever, im tired of it all'
'Fail to follow my advice, you'll be sorry'
'Don't be afraid to die'
'Those who have left have committed the betrayal of the century'
'if we cant live in peace, then lets die in peace'
'We've been so betrayed, so terribly betrayed'
'We are not commiting suicide, its a revolutionary act'
'I'm going to lay down my burdens, lay down my burdens down by the river side'
'We are born before our time'
'It's all over, what a legacy'
'Please get us the medication, its simple theres no convulsion, please just get it before its too late'
'I've died'
'There's nothing to worry about, everybody keep calm and try and keep your children calm'
'All the children help the little children and reasure them'
'There not crying from pain, it's just a little bitter taste, its not pain'
'Everybody was so happy when they made that step to other side. its the only way to step'
'The choice is not ours now, its out of our hands'
'You've never felt so good, is how that feels'
'Its hard its hard, only at first is it hard. Your looking at death, living is much more difficult'
'I just want to say something to everyone standing around crying, theres nothing to cry about. This is something we can all rejoice about. We should be happy about this. They say we cry when we are coming into this world, well when we are leaving, we are leaving peaceful, I think we should be happy about this'
' I wish you would not cry and just say father'
'Whoever wants to go with their child, can go with their child, they have a right to. I want to see you go though'
'No more no more no more'
'Just relax, you will have no problem'
'While your sitting there, show your love to one another'
'Lay down your life with dignity, dont lay down your life with tears and agony'
'Stop this hysterics, we must die with some dignity'
'Keep your emotions down, it will not hurt if you'll be quiet'
'Death is a million times preferalble than 10 more days of this life'
'If we do it, then they do it'
'Some people assure these chldren of the relaxation of stepping over to the next plane'

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This is a fascinating podcast Including testimony and audio from the people at Jonestown….

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On November 18 1978, an entire community of United States Citizens died deep in the jungle of Guyana. At the command of their charismatic leader Rev. Jim Jones 909 members of the peoples temple agricultural project lost their lives, some believed they were committing a revolutionary act of suicide, others were forced or coerced by the group. A colorful toxic mix of flavor aid, Kool-Aid and cyanide was passed around in Dixie cups, for those unable or unwilling the mixture was administered using syringes. Most of us have heard the story, an egomaniacal madman and his brainwashed cult of zombie followers commit mass suicide in the heart of darkness. Nothing more than a cautionary tale reminding us all to think for ourselves and never ever drink the Kool-Aid. Join us as we investigate how it all began.

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‎Transmissions From Jonestown: The Peoples Temple on Apple Podcasts

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On November 18 1978, an entire community of United States Citizens died deep in the jungle of Guyana. At the command of their charismatic leader Rev. Jim Jones 909 members of the peoples temple agricultural project lost their lives, some believed they were committing a revolutionary act of suicide,...

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Hey folks, here is the trailer from The Bay which was originally devised at E15…
https://shanedempsey.co.uk/projects/the-bay

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-Jones Town
-Midsommar
-'Trusting the actor' Brian Astbury
-Dantes 'The divine comedy'
- 'Under the banner of heaven'
- 'The book of enoch'