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What makes a person join a cult? What makes a person give up their families, their life savings, even take their own lives in the service of a cult? We often think of cult members as weak-minded or sheep, but the fact is, cults work by employing psychological tactics that work on everybody. And that may be the scariest thing about them.

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LINKS LINKS LINKS:

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/in-john-they-trust-109294882/

Types of Cults

Take Back Your Life

https://www.biography.com/crime-figure/marshall-herff-applewhite

https://gizmodo.com/the-online-legacy-of-a-suicide-cult-and-the-webmasters-1617403237

https://www.ranker.com/list/order-of-the-solar-temple-cult/amandasedlakhevener

https://torontosun.com/news/world/solar-temple-massacre-mystery-endures-25-years-later

Documentary on the Order of the Solar Temple:

https://www.vox.com/2018/4/19/17246732/waco-tragedy-explained-david-koresh-mount-carmel-branch-davidian-cult-25-year-anniversary

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/03/31/sacred-and-profane-4

Ask A Mortician video on the Branch Davidians:

https://www.swordandscale.com/movement-for-the-restoration-of-the-ten-commandments-of-god/

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/45681143_Doomsday_movements_in_Africa_Restoration_of_the_Ten_Commandments_of_God

Jonestown: The Life And Death of the People’s Temple Doc