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Introducing a new podcast: Matter Over Mind

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Challenging Leadership

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The End is Nigh: Our last ever Cult Hackers Podcast.

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Why are there riots in the UK?

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Does Culture Need Defending?

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Rituals: The Mind's Magic Trick

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Getting pushed around: A tyranny of nudges

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Why quitting can be good

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The world votes and so do I

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The Infected Blood Scandal: Reflections of an Ex Jehovah's Witness

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Cults, addiction, politics, religion, intrigue and big worms: Dune

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The Importance of Having a Voice and Podcast News

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Order, obedience, compliance and silence: Kendra Petty's story.

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Is Religion Good For You?

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Filmmaker Carmel Mikol talks Apostate, her Short Documentary Film

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Behaving Badly for the Org.

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Interview With Apostate Barbie

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Bonus Crossover: Magical Thinking Part 2

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Legal Fights: Jehovah’s Witnesses Vs Norway, with Jan Frode Nilsen

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Finding Friends After Leaving a Cult; Patron Takeover

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Bonus Audio Blog: Am I Awake Yet?

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Living in Keith Green’s Cult Commune; Last Days Ministries

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The Cultic Bug In The System

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Understanding Magical Thinking with Spencer Watson

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Deconstructing the Certainty of Fundamentalism with Olivia Jackson

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Cult Hackers Birthday Party

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Discovering who you are after the cult, with Rachel Bernstein

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White Christian Nationalism and Conspiracy Theories

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What The Stanford Prison Experiment Tells Us About Cults

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”Feeling like a misfit”: Creative Struggles and Triumphs with Witness Underground

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Taking on Gloriavale with Human Rights Lawyer, Stephen Patterson

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Sci-fi saviours with cult kids, Riley and Stephen

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”What gets measured gets done!”, Jehovah’s Witnesses stop counting time - Reaction

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Dennis Tourish on The Dark Side of Charismatic Leaders

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Exposing cultic abuse with Dr Alexandra Stein

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The psychological ABC of Conspiracism and Cults

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Purity Culture And the Damage it Does, with Kendra Bryan

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Cultic Motivation

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Bonus LEJOG update: Failing Publicly?

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Cult hopping with Sue Winter

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Anti-cult activism: Hate, disgruntlement or something else?

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“Silenced in Eden” with Jo Lloyd Johnson

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Learning About Cults With Kacey from The Cult Vault

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The Psychology of Cults Miniseries Part 7: Finding Identity After Leaving a Cult

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Is there a UFO cult inside the Pentagon?

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The Psychology of Cults Miniseries Part 6: Managing a Cult

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Inside The Mind of a Teenage Fundamentalist

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The Psychology of Cults Miniseries Part 5: Organizational Change

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Cults on Film: The Truman Show

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The Psychology of Cults Miniseries Part 4: Cult Leadership

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Recovering from a Traumatic Narcissistic Cultic Relationship with Dan Shaw

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The Psychology of Cults Miniseries Part 3: Why People Join and Why they Stay

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The Descent of Man

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The Psychology of Cults Miniseries Part 2: The Problem With Shunning

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The Troubled Teen Industry: Behavior Modification

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The Psychology of Cults Miniseries Part 1: How Cults Motivate

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Bike and Psych

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Taking on NXIVM with Susan Dones

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The Five Stages of Grief - But Mostly Anger

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”In the New System, will we have stories?”: Ex JW Writer, Rebecca Woodward

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Leaving Conspiracism with Brent Lee: Taking Ownership and The Social Cost

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The Cult Algorithm, AI and QAnon

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Bonus: The Family Survival Trust Special Event

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Going on a Cult Trip with Anke Richter

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Is The Royal Family a Cult?

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An Anarchist Studies With Jehovah’s Witnesses: Discussion with Hayward Gatch

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Part 2 Interview with Daniel Allen Cox

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Daniel Allen Cox, author of ”I Felt The End Before It Came”

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Child Marriage and Modern Day Slavery: Tamara’s Story

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Life Coaching in the light of Lighthouse

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”Accountability is not persecution” Rachael Reign on the Universal Church of the Kingdom of God

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Complexity bias and cults

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Falling in and out of love with a Sufi Group: Todd Brown

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”Do your own research”: Authority Part 2, Who to Believe.

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Update

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Healing From Cults Through Art and Music: Scott Homan

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”Sticking it to The Man”: Authority, Reactance and Cults

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”Fine just as I am”: Interview with 2 Girls 1 Cult

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Escaping Morningland Church with Frankie Tease

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Identity and our three selves after leaving a cult

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Bonus: Science what is it good for? And Fusion News!

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Recovering From Jehovah’s Witnesses: Mental Health Counsellor Claire Alison Hams

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Cracking Cults Collaboration - Meet The Podcasters!

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Bonus Cults on Film: The Master

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From the Children of God to the Army: Uncultured with Daniella Mestyanek Young

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Children of the Cult: Joy Cranham from The Family Survival Trust

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Bonus: Cults On Film, The Invisible Man

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Cult Hacker Review of 2022

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Bonus: The Jedi Cult and the Radicalisation of the Skywalkers

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Christmas: It’s complicated

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The God Virus and Recovering From Religion with Darrel Ray

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Bonus: Cults on Film - Apostasy

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Justified Ancients of Mu Mu and the KLF with Jexit’s Riley

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Special Mini Series Part 4: Cults at Work, Meaning and Purpose

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Graphic Novel, Cult Girls Author Natalie Grand

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Special Mini Series Part 3: Cults at Work.The Importance of Having a Voice

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The End of the World - Armageddon Obsessed

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Special Mini Series: Cults at Work Part 2, Leadership

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Cult Survivor, Activist and Podcaster, Andrew Pledger - Part 2

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Cult Survivor, Activist and Podcaster Andrew Pledger - Part 1