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Cult Hackers — 278 episodes
Introducing a new podcast: Matter Over Mind
Challenging Leadership
The End is Nigh: Our last ever Cult Hackers Podcast.
Why are there riots in the UK?
Does Culture Need Defending?
Rituals: The Mind's Magic Trick
Getting pushed around: A tyranny of nudges
Why quitting can be good
The world votes and so do I
The Infected Blood Scandal: Reflections of an Ex Jehovah's Witness
Cults, addiction, politics, religion, intrigue and big worms: Dune
The Importance of Having a Voice and Podcast News
Order, obedience, compliance and silence: Kendra Petty's story.
Is Religion Good For You?
Filmmaker Carmel Mikol talks Apostate, her Short Documentary Film
Behaving Badly for the Org.
Interview With Apostate Barbie
Bonus Crossover: Magical Thinking Part 2
Legal Fights: Jehovah’s Witnesses Vs Norway, with Jan Frode Nilsen
Finding Friends After Leaving a Cult; Patron Takeover
Bonus Audio Blog: Am I Awake Yet?
Living in Keith Green’s Cult Commune; Last Days Ministries
The Cultic Bug In The System
Understanding Magical Thinking with Spencer Watson
Deconstructing the Certainty of Fundamentalism with Olivia Jackson
Cult Hackers Birthday Party
Discovering who you are after the cult, with Rachel Bernstein
White Christian Nationalism and Conspiracy Theories
What The Stanford Prison Experiment Tells Us About Cults
”Feeling like a misfit”: Creative Struggles and Triumphs with Witness Underground
Taking on Gloriavale with Human Rights Lawyer, Stephen Patterson
Sci-fi saviours with cult kids, Riley and Stephen
”What gets measured gets done!”, Jehovah’s Witnesses stop counting time - Reaction
Dennis Tourish on The Dark Side of Charismatic Leaders
Exposing cultic abuse with Dr Alexandra Stein
The psychological ABC of Conspiracism and Cults
Purity Culture And the Damage it Does, with Kendra Bryan
Cultic Motivation
Bonus LEJOG update: Failing Publicly?
Cult hopping with Sue Winter
Anti-cult activism: Hate, disgruntlement or something else?
“Silenced in Eden” with Jo Lloyd Johnson
Learning About Cults With Kacey from The Cult Vault
The Psychology of Cults Miniseries Part 7: Finding Identity After Leaving a Cult
Is there a UFO cult inside the Pentagon?
The Psychology of Cults Miniseries Part 6: Managing a Cult
Inside The Mind of a Teenage Fundamentalist
The Psychology of Cults Miniseries Part 5: Organizational Change
Cults on Film: The Truman Show
The Psychology of Cults Miniseries Part 4: Cult Leadership
Recovering from a Traumatic Narcissistic Cultic Relationship with Dan Shaw
The Psychology of Cults Miniseries Part 3: Why People Join and Why they Stay
The Descent of Man
The Psychology of Cults Miniseries Part 2: The Problem With Shunning
The Troubled Teen Industry: Behavior Modification
The Psychology of Cults Miniseries Part 1: How Cults Motivate
Bike and Psych
Taking on NXIVM with Susan Dones
The Five Stages of Grief - But Mostly Anger
”In the New System, will we have stories?”: Ex JW Writer, Rebecca Woodward
Leaving Conspiracism with Brent Lee: Taking Ownership and The Social Cost
The Cult Algorithm, AI and QAnon
Bonus: The Family Survival Trust Special Event
Going on a Cult Trip with Anke Richter
Is The Royal Family a Cult?
An Anarchist Studies With Jehovah’s Witnesses: Discussion with Hayward Gatch
Part 2 Interview with Daniel Allen Cox
Daniel Allen Cox, author of ”I Felt The End Before It Came”
Child Marriage and Modern Day Slavery: Tamara’s Story
Life Coaching in the light of Lighthouse
”Accountability is not persecution” Rachael Reign on the Universal Church of the Kingdom of God
Complexity bias and cults
Falling in and out of love with a Sufi Group: Todd Brown
”Do your own research”: Authority Part 2, Who to Believe.
Update
Healing From Cults Through Art and Music: Scott Homan
”Sticking it to The Man”: Authority, Reactance and Cults
”Fine just as I am”: Interview with 2 Girls 1 Cult
Escaping Morningland Church with Frankie Tease
Identity and our three selves after leaving a cult
Bonus: Science what is it good for? And Fusion News!
Recovering From Jehovah’s Witnesses: Mental Health Counsellor Claire Alison Hams
Cracking Cults Collaboration - Meet The Podcasters!
Bonus Cults on Film: The Master
From the Children of God to the Army: Uncultured with Daniella Mestyanek Young
Children of the Cult: Joy Cranham from The Family Survival Trust
Bonus: Cults On Film, The Invisible Man
Cult Hacker Review of 2022
Bonus: The Jedi Cult and the Radicalisation of the Skywalkers
Christmas: It’s complicated
The God Virus and Recovering From Religion with Darrel Ray
Bonus: Cults on Film - Apostasy
Justified Ancients of Mu Mu and the KLF with Jexit’s Riley
Special Mini Series Part 4: Cults at Work, Meaning and Purpose
Graphic Novel, Cult Girls Author Natalie Grand
Special Mini Series Part 3: Cults at Work.The Importance of Having a Voice
The End of the World - Armageddon Obsessed
Special Mini Series: Cults at Work Part 2, Leadership
Cult Survivor, Activist and Podcaster, Andrew Pledger - Part 2
Cult Survivor, Activist and Podcaster Andrew Pledger - Part 1
Special Mini Series With The WOW Project: Cults at Work Part 1
The Cornetto Trilogy
Trauma Recovery Coach Jolyn Armstrong
A Diabolical Week and Demons On Repeat
“Jonestown in slow motion”. Leaving Christian Science with Hilary Alexander
Bonus Episode: Separating the Quantum Science From the Woo
The Abuse of Power in Cults
Bonus Episode: Cults on Film, The Borg
Jennifer French: Reconnecting With Family After Leaving a Mystical Cult
Cults and the promise of happiness
Special Episode: Recovering from a Damaging Religious Group with Sherrie D’Souza
Nicola Ranson: Life, love and leaving the Rajneeshpuram
Spirituality, Mysticism and Consciousness With Andrew Jasko
Work Life Balance in a Cult
Changing Laws To Protect Society From Cults With The Counter Cult Coalition
Does Jehovah’s Witnesses literature cause psychological disorders?
Synergy between Terrorism and Cults with Darin Challacombe PhD
Beliefs: The weird, the dangerous, the benign and the useful.
Hero Worship with Germ and Maryann
Special Episode: Reflections on ’The Last Days’ with Ali Millar
The Emotional Journey of Leaving a Cult
Unpacking Belief Systems with Kat Wallace
Artificial Intelligence and Consciousness
ICSA Conference Highlights
Abortion
”To say it was awful was an understatement”: Alisha’s Story
Transformational Training
From Fear to Freedom with Kimberley Miller
Does Nature Tell Us Anything About God? With John Elson
Theocracy to Democracy
The Psychological Impact of Shunning with Dr Heather Ransom
Having Fun and Healing With Games: Guest Starring Germ
Living and dying (rebroadcast from the archive)
Ex Jehovah’s Witness Poet and Podcaster Leon Helsby
Learning Styles and Other Myths
Falling in love with an ex cult member
Fight Club: Cult Reading and Movie Review
Making Sense of an Abnormal Normal: Life in the Children of God
Virtual Worlds
Hypnotherapist and EX Jehovah’s Witness, Becky Armstrong-Corbett
Cult Wars
Critical Thinking, Spirituality and life after Jehovah’s Witnesses: Daniel O’Brien
Birthdays
Ashlen Hilliard: From The International Cultic Studies Association
A Cult Reading of The Movie Equilibrium WIth Jexit’s Riley
The History of Atheism
Taking Risks
Signs and Symbols with Producer Bob
Knowing Right From Wrong: Ethics and Morals after leaving a Cult
Raised in Fear: Kwasizabantu with Daniel Schricker PhD
Russia Invades Ukraine
Cults in Movies: Midsommer
Alt Worldly: Jake Vaughn, Pathos And Comedy
Nature Vs Nurture
”I feared God with every fibre of my being” Erika Bornman on Life in Kwasizabantu
Wasted Years?
Coercive Control with Min Grob
Gaslight: The Movie that Gave us the Playbook
Deconversion and Religious Trauma with Darren Slade PhD
Science
Brent Lee: Ex Conspiracist
Why Ordinary People Do Atrocious Things: Cults and the Milgram Experiments
Singer Songwriter, Ex Jehovah’s Witness Sapphire Phoenix
Being Wrong
Women in the Bible with Producer Bob
Cults in Movies: Whiplash
Leaving the Amish: Lizzie’s Story
Bonus: Stephen’s Top Ten Recommended Podcasts for 2022
New Year’s Resolutions
My Story: Growing up as a Jehovah’s Witness, leaving and making sense of life
Christmas Special
MindShift Time! Interview with Clint Heacock on Religious Deconstruction and Dominion Theology
Believe In Yourself! Self Efficacy, Inside And Outside a Cult
Bonus: Cults as Organizations - Motivating Members
Transcendental Meditation, Cults and Exiting: Interview with Patrick Ryan from Cult 101
Dreams
”I’ve got the ball and chain around you and only I have the key”: Ex Jehovah‘s Witness Sarah‘s Story
Free Will Vs Determinism
Award-Winning Film Witness Underground: Interview with Scott Homan and Ryan Sutter
Special 100th Episode and 1st Birthday
I‘m safer in a bar than I am in a Kingdom Hall: Ex Jehovah‘s Witness Donna Stevenson talks about her experience
Trying to Make Sense of War After Leaving a Pacifist Cult
Bonus: Are Cults a Wicked Problem?
Specialist Counsellor in Cult Recovery Gillie Jenkinson: 4 Phase Model
Meerkats, Cleaner Fish and the Social Instinct with Producer Bob
Growing up in The Children of God Cult
Bonus: Remember Remember the 5th of November
The Dancing Plague
Interview With The Prophets of Free Thought
Learned Behavior in Cults
They were teenage fundamentalists: Evangelicals and Pentecostals
The Lies We Tell Our Kids (Or Don‘t)
Alexandra Stein PhD: Attachment in cults and coercive relationships
Documentary Special: The Pink Pound
Film actor, singer, X factor contestant, window cleaner exJW Luke Stevenson
Cult Movie: The Village
JT and Lady Cee
Should we worry about homeschooling?
Checklists and Affirmations: Jared ex Jehovah‘s Witness:
Sexual Healing: With Producer Bob and the Shunned Experience‘s Jordan
Robin Jackson: South African Ex JW Activist
Bonus: The MGTOW Men‘s Movement with Jexit
”What‘s your Weltanschauung? How your ‘worldview‘ affects your beliefs.
John Elson Ex JW Stand-up Comic and Caricaturist
Perfection
Bonus Short: Cults as Organizations - Change
”I was stunned because no-one seemed to care at all”: Phd student and ex JW Ryan David Tuttle
Review of Unorthodox
Interview with Mark Jones, the Quora guy
Bonus Conversation: Born-in Cult Member Recovery
Avoiding the 'Pit of Despair'
A voice from inside: Interview with Geoffrey Wallis
Personality Profiles
Prophecy Special: England's Most Famous Prophetess
The Matrix as Metaphor
A life in the Moonies: Interview with Elgen Strait
Emotional Labour and The Kingdom Smile
Kamila Dydyna talks about Debutante
Bonus: Mental health of born-in cult members with Producer Bob and Jordan Robertson
Finding love in and out of a High Control Group
Sex and relationships: Interview with Jill Adams
Cognitive Biases and Cults
Bethan ex Mormon perspectives
Narcissism and cult leaders
Ep 51. Germ from the Mentally Diseased YouTube Channel
Bonus Short : Mental Wellbeing in Cults
Ep 50. Self Help
Ep 49. Jordan Robertson Ex Jehovah's Witness YouTuber
Cults as depicted in Star Trek
Ep 47. Chris Shelton Ex Scientologist
Ep 46. Optimized Cr*pness and Customer Service
Ep 45. Dr. Janja Lalich, Cult Researcher
Bonus short: Cults and Power
Cults in our Midst - Book Review
Ep 43.Rob Crompton, Special Pioneer to Methodist Minister
Ep 42. The Pink Pound
Ep 41. Ex Jehovah's Witness Academic & Leadership Coach, Dr. Calonddu
Body Image
Ep 39. The Satanic Panic with Professor Chris French
Ep 38. Aliens and UFOs
Ep 36. Gender
Ep 35. Interview with author Ali Millar
Ep 34. Activisim
Artist Alex Millar - interview. Transition from Jehovah's Witness to world renowned artist
Ep 32. Charismatic leaders and cults
Ep 31. Politics - The Eight Values
Ep 30. Cognitive Dissonance - Book Review "When Prophecy Fails".
Ep 29. Education Pt. 1. The School Years
Ep 28. Interview with Riley Ex Jehovah's Witness Activist
Ep 27. Child Rearing
Bonus: Film Review, Red Lights
Ep 26.The Supernatural
Ep 25. Learning to become assertive
Ep 24. Bonus Episode: Women, Men and Headship
Ep 23. The Truth
Ep 22. Life and Death
Ep 21. The struggle for self, after leaving a high control group
Ep 20. Veganism
Ep 19. Social Darwinism
Ep 18. Did humans get here through Evolution or by Creation?
Ep 17. Queen's Gambit
Ep 16. Contraceptive angst
Ep 15. "I didn't know who I was!" Part 3 of a Jehovah's Witness story.
Ep 14. Quick builds and slow fades - A Jehovah's Witness story Part 2
Ep 13. 'The Cult of Trump' - Book Review
Ep 12. Angels and Doubts - a Jehovah’s Witness Childhood.
Ep 11. Bounce-back-ability: How to be resilient
Ep. 10 Mind Body Separation
Ep. 9 Body Modifications
Ep. 8 When Prophecy Fails: Jehovah’s Witnesses a Case Study
Ep. 7 Humanism
Bonus: Living with an invisible illness
Ep 6. Inaccurate Biopics
EP. 5 Dungeons and Dragons
Ep.4 Old but problematic
Ep.3 The Star Trek Holodeck
Ep.2 Ancient Aliens
Ep.1 People in cults