Cults Anon

Welcome to Cults Anon, the podcast where we talk about cults! Join us this week as we discuss the Heaven's Gate organization, a largely underground UFO cult active throughout the 1970's to the 1990's that gained infamy when 39 members participated in a mass suicide in the belief that by leaving their physical bodies their spirits would be able to join an alien spacecraft connected to the Haley-Bop...

Welcome to Cults Anon, the podcast where we talk about cults! Join us this week as we explore Ervil Lebaron's violent doomsday cult the Church of the Lamb of God. We discuss the history of the Latter Day Saint Movement, it's charismatic founder Joseph Smith, and the various factions who continue to compete over candidates for Smith's succession to this day. One such faction, led by Ervil Lebaron,...

Welcome to Cults Anon, the podcast where we talk about cults! Join us this week for the thrilling and spooky tale of Magdalena Solis and the blood drinking death cult she founded in the small community of Yerba Buena, Mexico in the early 1960's. We sift through a variety of sources attempting to get to the bottom of this sensational tale of teenage priestesses and human sacrifice. Let's talk about...

Welcome to Cults Anon! The podcast where we talk about cults. Join us this week for the fourth and final installment of our deep dive into the Radical Transgender Movement. In this episode we finally reveal the truth that the radical activists within the the transgender movement have worked so hard to conceal. We discuss the biological facts of human reproduction. We examine the different methods...

Welcome to Cults Anon! The podcast where we talk about cults. Join us this week for part three of our deep dive into the Radical Transgender Movement. We explore the various ways that the Standards of Care for medical gender transition have changed over the past fifty years and the significant impacts these standards have had on the transgender community. How are these clinical standards related t...

Welcome to Cults Anon! The podcast where we talk about cults. Join us this week for part two of our deep dive into the Radical Transgender Movement. We explore the history of the movement here in the USA and the significance Christine Jorgensen, the first transgender celebrity to bring the concept of sex reassignment into the mainstream media. We also discuss the growing shift within the transgend...

Welcome to Cults Anon, the podcast where we talk about cults! Join me this week as we take on one of our most controversial subjects yet: the radical transgender movement. In this episode we explore the surprising origins of gender ideology and critically examine the more extreme aspects of the movement through a compassionate lens of personal lived experience. Let's talk about it.

Welcome to Cults Anon, the podcast where we talk about cults! Join me this week as we examine the controversies and allegations surrounding the online dating/spiritual counseling service known as "Twin Flame Universe". From encouraging their students to stalk potential twin flames to testimonies of former members that they were pressured into gender transitions against their will we take...

Welcome to Cults Anon, the podcast where we talk about cults! Join me this week as we kick off season two with a very special guest interview! We also review the results of the official 2023 Rapture Watch and we examine the war for free speech currently being waged by keyboard warriors across the internet and around the globe. Lets talk about it.

Welcome to Cults Anon, the podcast where we talk about cults! Join me this week as we discuss the concept of identity as a social construct and the assumptions that exist about what identity is in general and what it means for an individual person to "identify" with a larger group or social structure. What does it mean to have a national, cultural, ethnic, gender, or linguistic identity?...

Cults Anon will not post this weeks episode until Tuesday Dec. 12 in observance of the general strike for a ceasefire in Gaza.

Welcome to Cults Anon, the podcast where we talk about cults! Join me this week as we unpack the murky origins of the modern Christian Zionist Movement in the United States. In this episode we track the Zionist movement from its humble beginnings in the 1808 London Jew Society to Napoleon Bonaparte's aspirations to create a Jewish state in Palestine to the influence of Zionism on modern televa...

Welcome to Cults Anon, the podcast where we talk about cults! Join me this week for the thrilling conclusion of our deep dive into the Unification Church, better known as the "Moonies" after their founder and charismatic leader Sun Myung Moon. This week we discuss the Moonies deep ties to the modern day Republican party including the key role members of the cult played in the notorious I...

Welcome to Cults Anon, the podcast where we talk about cults! Join me this week for part 4 of our deep dive into the Unification Church of the United States, better known as the "Moonies" after their founder and charismatic leader Sun Myung Moon. This week we examine the congressional findings concerning Moon and his cult activities laid out in the 1978 Fraser Report and discover just ho...

Welcome to Cults Anon, the podcast where we talk about Cults! Since the illusive rapture appears to be remaining ever imminent join me again this week for part three of our deep dive into the Unification Church of the United States, better known as the "Moonies" after their founder and charismatic leader Sun Myung Moon. We pick up the Moonie's saga this week with Moon's rise to i...

Welcome to Rapture Watch 2023! We are interrupting our regularly scheduled programing to bring you breaking news updates from the world of cults- the Rapture may really be on for 2023. The mormons are on the move with fundamentalist groups like AVOW and even the church of the first born son making the news from Utah to Idaho. The Jehova's Witnesses are changing their messaging from spreading t...

Welcome to Cults Anon, the podcast where we talk about cults! Join me this week for part two of our deep dive into the Unification Church of The United States better known as the "Moonies" after their founder and charismatic leader Sun Myung Moon. This week we pick up Moon's saga in the 1960's with his infiltration of post world war II Japanese, Korean, and American societies as...

Welcome to Cults Anon, the podcast where we talk about cults! Join me this week as we begin to pick apart the snarled mess of international political espionage, human sex trafficking, messianic delusions, and CIA backed psychological operations that is the Unification Church of the United States, better known as "The Moonies" after their posthumous charismatic leader and founder Sun Myun...

Welcome to Cults Anon, the podcast where we talk about cults! Join me this week for part two of our deep dive into the arrest of popular "momfluencer" Ruby Franke and her business partner Jodi Hildebrandt after Franke's starving and injured children escaped from the basement of Hildebrandt's home in August. In part two we focus on Jodi Hildebrandt's side of the story, explori...

Welcome to Cults Anon, the podcast where we talk about cults from the perspective of recovery! Join me this week for a deep dive into the controversies surrounding the recent arrest of popular youtube "momfluencer" Ruby Franke on child abuse charges after her starving and injured children escaped from the basement of her therapist Jodi Hildebrandt's home. In this first half of a two...

Welcome to Cults Anon, the podcast where we talk about cults from the perspective of recovery! Join me this week as we explore the profound social, political, and historical significance of the radical act of refusal. We will learn about the different methods that can be employed to refuse to participate in actions or labor that is in direct opposition to your individual higher good and how you ca...

Welcome to Cults Anon, the podcast where we talk about cults from the perspective of avoidance and recovery! Join me this week for a frank discussion of one of the most notorious cult-related incidents in American history widely remembered as "The Jonestown Massacre". We will examine the possible psychology and motivations behind cult leader Jim Jones while reviewing the escalating serie...

Welcome To Cults Anon! The podcast where we talk about cults. Join me as we examine the dangerous set of behavioral patterns that turn an healthy community into a toxic cult and we learn and discuss the skills and techniques to identify, avoid, and even escape from high-control groups. Remember, information is power, autonomy is sacred, and joy is the antidote to fear. New episodes available every...

Welcome to Cults Anon, the new podcast about cults! We approach the topic of cults and similar high-control groups through the lens of recovery: like a support group for people who no longer want to be in a cult. If you are in a high-control group and are looking for the support and advice on how to leave, or if you want to learn more about cults in order to avoid them in the future, then this is...