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Check her out!Review: Green and Deadly Things by Jenn Lyons | FanFiAddict Whip it…whip it real good Hello, and thanks for joining me. I'm Lori Kay, and this is The Crafty Narrative. Today we will continuing in our Sectarianism Movement series.

A breeding ground for nonconformists Sources Why was Ivan so terrible? | Ivan the Terrible biography & facts | Sky HISTORY TV Channel (99) Holy Orgies and Sanctified Flagellation: a study of Khlysts - YouTube 15minutehistorypodcast.org. Ivan III | Biography, Facts, Nickname, Definition, & Accomplishments | Britannica Dekhtevich — History of the Khlyst Movement in Russia, 1850-2000 The Wheel And The Knife - The Awl The Religious Sect Rasputin Supposedly Got His Magical Powers From - Cultura Colectiva Holy Orgies and Sanctified Flagellation: a study of Khlysts CORPOREALITY AND SEXUALITY IN EASTERN EUROPEAN STUDIES: TWO RECENT CONFERENCES IN WELLINGTON on JSTOR The Turbulent Time of Troubles (1598-1613) That Shaped Russia | TheCollector Fyodor I “The Bellringer” – Russiapedia History and mythology Prominent Russians An introduction to Russia Christian History Timeline: History of Russian Christianity | Christian History Magazine Russia's offbeat religions: The Old Believers and the Khlystyo What ACTUALLY Happened to Russia's Orthodox Old Believers? The Formation of Russia | Western Civilization

Country Club or Den of Sin? Hello and thanks for joining me Lori Kay here on the Crafty Narrative!

Today we ask conman or visionary? Sources America's First Yoga Scandal Bernarr Macfadden | American Fitness Pioneer, Publisher | Britannica Tracing The Yogic Trajectory - BW Wellbeing World The Short-Lived Glory of Central Nyack's 8,000-Seat Sports Centre - Nyack News & Views The Four Hundred and the Man Who Invented Them - The New York Times Tantric Hatha Yoga | Hatha Yoga | Yoga San Diego What Is An Ashram? Everything You Need To Know About Traditional Tantra Yoga Blanche DeVries Bernard, 92, dies - Newspapers.com™ The Phoenix Temple, Tantra, and Sacred Sexuality – Llewellyn Unbound Revisiting a True Nyack Character – Dr. Pierre Bernard | At Home In Nyack Crazy Cults of the 1920s and 1930s! - Beardy History 'The Great Oom': Yoga's Wild Ride To Respectability : NPR Yoga Reborn Here - Nyack News & Views Clarkstown Country Club in the Historical Society of Rockland County People | 10964 - The Palisades Newsletter The Moorings: A Glimpse Into the Clarkstown Country Club Era - Nyack News & Views Jab From the Past : With New Fight Facing Him, Lou Nova Focuses On the Many Memories of a Memorable Boxing Career - Los Angeles Times bc-ir102741.pdf

When Utopia was all the Rage!!

Trigger warning In Chapter 2 I will be going over child and domestic abuse. I will treat these topics sensitivity and when not go into detail for the sake of the survivors. If this isn't something you are in the headspace for I understand and hope you catch me in the next series. Always the Outsider

Oneida Community Before we get started, I want to give a quick content warning.This series discusses sexual abuse, including the abuse of minors. I'll be handling these topics carefully and without graphic detail, out of respect for survivors. If this isn't something you're in the headspace for right now, I completely understand, and I hope you'll join me for the next series. The everything and the kitchen sink of cults! Sources: Social Welfare History Project Oneida Community (1848-1880): A Utopian Community ** Big thanks to the VCU Social Welfare History Project** 12 Crazy Facts About Charles J. Guiteau The Man Who Killed James Garfield (Death By Lightning) A Stalwart of Stalwarts | National Archiveshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s9lUhQNNqjI (39) Charles Guiteau: From Rejected Child to Presidential Assassin | No One Born Evil - YouTube @#@@@ https://scholarworks.gvsu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1237&context=communalsocieties HAND-BOOK OF THE ONEIDA COMMUNITY, 1867 The Bizarre Free Love Cult That Housed a Presidential Assassin Ep 266 The Oneida Community, Part I Stirpiculture : science-guided human propagation and the Oneida Community A Stalwart of Stalwarts | National Archives Museum of Old Newbury: Silverware, Sex, and Stirpicults: John Humphrey Noyes and Oneida Community Silver Second Great Awakening | Description, History, & Key Figures | Britannica https://scholarworks.gvsu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1237&context=communalsocieties

Histories Best Secret Keepers Sources: Mystery Cults in the Greek and Roman World - The Metropolitan Museum of Art MYSTERY CULTS: THE ELEUSINIAN MYSTERIES The Emergence of Mystery Cults in Ancient Rome and Greece – Lost Ledger (goes into Mystery Cults in Rome) WTF are BCE/CE and BC/AD? Ancient Greek Votive Offerings in Antiquity: Gifts to the Gods | Ancient & Oriental The tragic myth of Orpheus and Eurydice - Brendan Pelsue (14) Miscellaneous Myths: Dionysus - YouTube The origin of the Eleusinian Mystery | Athens24.com Miscellaneous Myths: Dionysus Demeter – Mythology Unbound: An Online Textbook for Classical Mythology The Lesser Mysteries: Structure, Rituals, and Connection to the Greater Mysteries - Eleusinian Mysteries GREEK MYTHOLOGY: Orpheus and Eurydice - A Mortal Journey into the Underworld Orpheus "...Goes to "Hell"" - Greek - Extra Mythology

Trust the Process.... Mystery Cults Sources Mystery Cults in the Greek and Roman World - The Metropolitan Museum of Art MYSTERY CULTS: THE ELEUSINIAN MYSTERIES The Emergence of Mystery Cults in Ancient Rome and Greece – Lost Ledger (goes into Mystery Cults in Rome) Domain Product Ho 20 sec WTF are BCE/CE and BC/AD? Minoan Civilization - World History Encyclopedia History of Greece during Stone and Bronze Age An evolutionary model explaining the Neolithic transition from egalitarianism to leadership and despotism - PMC

Not Green Eggs and ham! Just the Green Egg! Sources: Forever Forests - Sacred Ceremonies at Annwfn ** want to send an tax-deductible donation to planting trees? Oberon Zell - The Witches' Almanac Rhiannon Zell – Author FACULTY | SacredCentersAcademy Lance Christie Dies | File 770 Ecosophical Perspectives: Ecosophy Succinctly... Green Egg Magazine tepped– A Journal of Awakening Gaia Harvard.edu Remembering Gwydion Pendderwen (1946-1982) — Jess Carlson From triads to quads, there's a lot of polyamory in the air | National Post Spirituality and Grokking | Spirituality+Health Earth Mother/Goddess Morning Glory Zell-Ravenheart Facts for Kids Richard Lance Christie, 1944 ~ 2010 CAW Three Ring Cycle – Church of All Worlds Anodea Judith Oberon Zell-Ravenheart and Morning Glory Zell-Ravenheart – Exequy's Blog Oberon Zell-Ravenheart and The Church of All Worlds | Magickal Winds Articles The Horned God: Not As Old As You Think | Jason Mankey The Divine Feminine: 8 Ancient Forms of the Great Mother Goddess | TheCollector Oberon Zell-Ravenheart and The Church of All Worlds | Magickal Winds Articles Neopaganism | Encyclopedia.com Polyamory in the News: Oberon Zell, co-creator of the word, on polyamory today The Heartbreaking, Hopeful, and Hypnotic Tale of a Wizard Named Oz Oberon Zell-Ravenheart at Paganicon – Interview – Pagan Newswire Collective – Minnesota Bureau X-Art Show 2014 - Twin Cities Pagan Pride The Church of All Worlds: From Invented Religion to a Religion of Invention Katrina Interviews Pagan Pioneer, Wizard, and Visionary, Oberon Zell Deep Ecology Movement → Term What Is Deep Ecology? Definition, Critics, and Misunderstandings | Earth.Org Church of All Worlds (1961) – Encyclopedia of Cults, Sects, and New Religious Movements Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs Church of all Worlds – Occult World Oberon Zell - Ravenheart on TJBS

The Real Life Dumbledore

Where are they now? Sources: Estimate of COVID-19 Deaths, China, December 2022–February 2023 - PMC The Happy Science Religious Movement Claims to Hold the Cure for COVID-19 – grape Japan Happy Science / Kōfuku no Kagaku - CDAMM The Happy Science Religious Movement Claims to Hold the Cure for COVID-19 – grape Japan Modern-Day Savior - Happy Science USA Happy Science — Happy Science Australia Happy Science: Inside Japan's Far-Right Religious Movement - Unseen Japan FAQ | KOMEITO Happiness Realization Party | Constitutional Revision What is the Happy Science Religion? They Claim They Can Cure Coronavirus - The New York Times Japan's ‘Happy Science' cult leader Okawa, who claimed he spoke to spirits of Jesus and Freddie Mercury, dies | The Straits Times Ryuho Okawa, Founder of Happy Science Dies at Age 66 - The Japan News A PIONEER IN THE REVIVAL OF JAPANESE SPIRITUALITY IN THE 1980S: SHIN YOSHIFUKU | by Bill Kelly | Nov, 2025 | Medium

When the ocean eats your homework....

“Too many the Happies smell suspiciously like a cult.” Sources: Estimate of COVID-19 Deaths, China, December 2022–February 2023 - PMC The Happy Science Religious Movement Claims to Hold the Cure for COVID-19 – grape Japan Happy Science / Kōfuku no Kagaku - CDAMM The Happy Science Religious Movement Claims to Hold the Cure for COVID-19 – grape Japan Modern-Day Savior - Happy Science USA Happy Science — Happy Science Australia Happy Science: Inside Japan's Far-Right Religious Movement - Unseen Japan FAQ | KOMEITO Happiness Realization Party | Constitutional Revision What is the Happy Science Religion? They Claim They Can Cure Coronavirus - The New York Times Japan's ‘Happy Science' cult leader Okawa, who claimed he spoke to spirits of Jesus and Freddie Mercury, dies | The Straits Times Ryuho Okawa, Founder of Happy Science Dies at Age 66 - The Japan News A PIONEER IN THE REVIVAL OF JAPANESE SPIRITUALITY IN THE 1980S: SHIN YOSHIFUKU | by Bill Kelly | Nov, 2025 | Medium

Darkest before the Dawn Hello and thanks for joining me Lori Kay here on the Crafty Narrative. Today we will be going into the second and final chapter in the our series on Aggressive Christianity Missions Training Corps. Again I will put a Trigger warning right up front for every type of abuse especially toward children. If you need to skip this cult I understand and I hope you check out next in next weeks cult where I will start a new series. Well there is a lot to unpack today so lets jump right in.

“They were equal opportunity haters”

Sources Hello and thanks for joining me Lori Kay here on the Crafty Narrative. I'll start off with a question: Have you ever seen someone and been like “yeah I could do that”?” Well that's pretty much what Margaret Matlida Wright did in 1916.... Special thanks to non-fiction author Kimberly Tilley ESDA | Rowen, Margaret Matilda (Wright) (1871–1939) Margaret Rowan, the Deadly Prophetess of Los Angeles | old spirituals : mug shots Seventh-Day Adventists - Encyclopedia of Arkansas article-BAVJ.pdf Ellen White's Life: First Vision--The Second Coming

So a rocket scientist joins the occult Steffi and Kenneth Grant - Fulgur Press A Sad Loss: Kenneth Grant – Llewellyn Unbound http://writ-in-water.com/scarlet/obeah People v. Kynette - 15 Cal.2d 731 - Tue, 07/30/1940 | California Supreme Court Resources Jack Parsons: The Paradoxical Figure Who Revolutionized Rocketry - The California Tech Kenneth Grant — The Occult Library William Breeze Grady Louis McMurtry Typhonian Ordo Templi Orientis - The OTO After Crowley - Michael Staley 1934_07_26_times.pdf From the archive, 13 April 1934: "Black Magic" Libel Action | Magic | The Guardian An Introduction to the History of the O.T.O. - О.Т.О. Today in Masonic History - Theodor Reuss Passes Away Thelemapedia: The Encyclopedia of Thelema & Magick | Carl Kellner Dynamic YT AD The Pasadena Haunts of the Occultist Who Cofounded JPL - Curbed LA US Grand Lodge – Ordo Templi Orientis The Mysterious Origins of Ordo Templi Orientis History – US Grand Lodge History OF Ordo Templi Orientis Hidden Secrets Of Crowley's Mysterious Cult Ordo Templi Orientis (O.T.O.) Mark of the beast – thestrangemythworld Aleister Crowley, Marie de Miramar & the True Wanga - UCL Discovery Crowley, Aleister – OCCULT WORLD To Understand Masonic Drama, Look to the Stage - California Freemason Magazine Josef Dvorak: Carl Kellner — English Version

A Boy Scout and an Alien devote join the occult.

The Wickedest Man in the World Hello and thanks for checking out the OTO series today as we dive into Chapter 3 and the man that would go down in history as the Wickedest Man in the World!

The Crowley Affect!!!

I read one little article and fell into the deepest rabbit hole of all rabbit holes! Hence the newest series on Ordo Templi Orientis!

Society of the Woman in the Wilderness with special guest Jules!! Spooky Podcast: The Ghost Furnace Podcast: The Legendary & Historic Johannes Kelpius w/ Timothy Grieve-Carlson Sources: GC-Kelpius-and-Followers-May-1953.pdf https://hiddencityphila.org/2011/11/doomsday-cult-on-the-wissahickon/ Kelpius & Hermit's Cave - Friends of Wissahickon Friends of Wissahickon https://www.ushistory.org/oddities/kelpius.htm explorepahistory.com/hmarker.php%3FmarkerId=1-A-3E5.html The End of the World: Johannes Kelpius' Beliefs and Cosmology A Brief Biography of Kelpius The Lessons of Pietism -- Dr. Lowell Zuck - The University of Chicago Divinity School The Monks of the Wissahickon: Part 1 — Schuylkill Valley Journal Online

Where it all began....or did it? Umbanda religion Brazil -sources Brazilian Indigenous People Possidonio_and_Versiani_Summer_2022_iJournal.pdf (723) The Umbanda (Afro-Brazilian Folk Religion - Full Documentary) | TRACKS - YouTube Umbanda Religion | National Geographic Umbanda: 10 Facts About The Afrobrazilian Religion | TheCollector Umbanda Religion: History and Beliefs What Is Umbanda? - Brazil Travel Expert stopped at min 2 Umbanda: 10 Facts About The Afrobrazilian Religion | TheCollector What Is the Difference Between Candomblé and Umbanda? | TheCollector by Agnes Theresa Oberauer Macumba, Candomble, and Umbanda: Brazilian Spirituality Slavery and Freedom in Brazil (2025) | Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History (723) Macumba, Candomble, and Umbanda: Brazilian Spirituality - YouTube

Umbanda is a one of a kind religion that comes to us from Brazil. Today we will go over their beliefs and rituals.

The second and final chapter in the Crazy Cat Lady Series!

Special guest JoRenee comes along as I tell her about the crazy case of Sheryl Ruthven!

Both Chapter One and Two

A kinda of "Where are they now cult edition"

Mao and his war on religion Sources The Church of Almighty God: Origins and Beliefs | Inside The Church of Almighty God:.. The Most Persecuted Religious Movement in China | Oxford Academic "The Origin and Development of The Church of Almighty God" | Christian Video 10 DISTURBING FACTS ABOUT THE CHURCH OF ALMIGHTY GOD Perfect List ChinaSource | A Field Study of “The Church of Almighty God” Cult The Basic Beliefs of The Church of Almighty God | GOSPEL OF THE DESCENT OF THE KINGDOM The Church of Almighty God: China's Most Persecuted Religious Movement Inside Mao's China | Free Documentary History "Almighty God," They Call Her - Richard Pennington What is the Church of Almighty God / Eastern Lightning? | GotQuestions.org Two Davids & Goliath | David Matas & David Kilgour | TEDxMünchen Chinese police detain 'female Jesus cult' members China executes cult members over McDonald's murder | China | The Guardian Home HRWF | Human Rights Without Frontiers Church-Almighty-God-2020_online.pdf 10 things to know about China's policies on religion | Pew Research Center Religious Affairs Regulations 2017 Henan Province Struggle Sessions | American Policy Roundtable Milestones in the History of U.S. Foreign Relations - Office of the Historian

This is the first of the Collections. I will try to do this if people seem to enjoy it. If you have suggestions please message me on Tik Tok where you can find me as the Crafty Narrative.

Chapter 4 of the Community Series Source: https://medium.com/ 20 Sep 1905 - THE NEW MESSIAH. - Trove Rev. John Hugh Smyth Pigott, His Claim, Prophecy and End | The Review of Religions Victorian sex cult leader's relatives lose fight for £1m Chapter 4 Like most cults this one came into the world with a bang and went out like a whimper. Hello and thanks for joining me Lori Kay here on the Crafty Narrative. Today we will be going into the 4th and last chapter in our Community Series. Nothing much to add so let's jump right into the Community after their leader betrayed his own doctrine and went and died.

Trigger Warning: Todays Episode deals with sexual violence upon a minor. Your mental health is of the most importance so if you need to skip Chapter 3 I understand. Hook: Cult leaders are like toddlers they always have to push to see how much they can get away with. Additional Sources John Hugh Smyth Pigott - AhmadiPedia

The Nottidge Sisters Saga Additional Sources: The King's Candlesticks: Pedigrees Louisa Jane NOTTIDGE [26764] Victorian Era Lunatic Asylums | The Victorian Era | Author VL McBeath

This is for my friend Jen who wanted to know more the cult leader who could "purify women" with his unit! Sources: Henry James Prince and the Agapemonites The Agapemone – WRSP The Agapemonites — A Good Night for a Murder 07Schwieso.pdf Henry James Prince and the Agapemonites On this day in History January 10th 1899- the Death of the Reverend Henry James Prince - Bridgwater Westover Web

Final Chapter in the Oxford Group Series!

The Whole World is a Stage!!!

The Bible but make it DIY

A long time ago a little boy in Pennsylvania dreamed of being an Lutheran Minister this is his story. THE OXFORD GROUPERS Sources Strange Sects and Curious Cults by Bach House Parties & Frank Buchman -- AA's Spiritual Roots EP2 what is the oxford group by the Layman with a Notebook 1920s OXFORD GROUP ESTABLISHED | Stepstudy.org Our Story | IofC International For A New World - stories of lives changed *** SMALL-TOWN BOY City Histories Ministry Magazine | Buchmanism (Oxford Group Movement) 1908 FRANK BUCHMAN'S “CONVERSION” | Stepstudy.org The History Of Moral Re-Armament | Chris Gehrz

Unarius after the founding members.

When Queen Uriel takes over!

Unarius Sources: Sources joining science and spirit -this link will take you to the virtual tour of the Unarius Academy of Science Unarius – WRSP -thank you Diana Tumminia for your in depth article! Children of the Stars | Unarius UFO Cult Documentary | Full Movie Podcasts – Unarius – Unarius – Academy of Science Founders – Unarius – Academy of Science Fourth Dimension: The Cult Films of the Unarius Atompunk Spirituality: Unarius | A Steampunk Opera (The Dolls Of New Albion) Dr Charles Louis “Antares” Spiegel (1921-1999) - Find a Grave Memorial Interview With Unariun Student - Thomas Miller | Unariun Wisdom UFO Group Unarius Leader Dies (CESNUR)

The end of the Love Isreal Family

What is a good communal cult without a craft store??

Followship numbers skyrocket!

Love Isreal Family Sources: Love Israel Family Stories: A Broken Rainbow - HistoryLink.org Love Israel Family - HistoryLink.org Love Israel, founder of troubled Seattle commune, dies at 75 | The Seattle Times It Takes a Cult Documentary Directed by Eric Johannsen Love Family Love Israel Family – WRSP The Love Israel Family: Urban Commune, Rural Commune by Charles P. LeWarne's

The end of the Koreshans

Okay hear me out...all the men and children live in their own commune and the women share a commune with Cyrus Teed....for reasons.....

Koreshan Part Episode 27 So hear me out…we don't live on Earth but IN Earth! Sources: -Florida Memory • Koreshan Unity Koreshan Unity: A Quest for Utopia | Untold Stories | Florida HistoryU ERBzine 1447: Teed Hollow Earth: Blasphemy and Folly y Step Into History Digital Edition: The Koreshans *** The Medical Battery in The United States (1870–1920): Electrotherapy at Home and in the Clinic by Anna Wexler History of Mentalism: Evolution of Performers in Orlando Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy by Joseph Harris

The episode where Frank wears a huge gold cross….. Sources: -Strange Sect and Curious Cults by Bach -A Brief Biography of Frank Bruce Robinson (This descriptive inventory of the Papers of Frank Bruce Robinson and Psychiana in the University of Idaho Library was prepared by Judith Nielsen in April 1980.)