(Part 3) Top products from r/cults

I didn't forget about you and sorry it has taken me so long. All of my books turned out to be at my parents house... which I still havne't gotten over there to look. There was one in particular that I was trying to remember the name of.

I did however find two real base level introduction to new religious movements in America. It is like some others I read while studying religion awhile back.

• New Religious Movements: A Documentary Reader
  
• Cults and New Religions: A Brief History
  
  The second one seems to be more up your alley. I will also get you a list another list once I get to my parents house and look through all the old school books.
  
  Also, there are books that deal with some of the cult scares of the late 80s and early 90s. I can't remember the one I read and really enjoyed. But I do remember hearing this one was good- so I can't say from personal experience. However, despite it's title it is supposed to take a look at how satanist view themselves and debunk a few of the rumors on them.
  
  
• Satan Wants You: The Cult of Devil Worship in America
  
  Given the nature of what you are interested it may not be bad to go back to the beginnings of mystery cults(if only to give some perspective of how mystery cults began and how the psychology has changed):
  
  
• Greek Mysteries: The Archaeology of Ancient Greek Secret Cults
  
  I know it's not the list you were looking for, or the list I wanted to give, but maybe it will help. Again, I'll eventually get to look through my books and give you a more in-depth list.

I'm inclined to agree (on the basis of having read his own father's book about him) that David is quite possibly a paranoid delusional psychopath, and that for as long as he is alive, he will continue to put the whip to those at levels seven, eight and nine on his cultic pyramid to protect himself against the upshots of his own (and Hubbard's) inventions and policies.

But replacing him with a "kind, softhearted, uninteresting reformer" seems highly unlikely. The organization is a festerpit of "true believers" who are highly -- even psychotically so it appears to some -- committed to the continuation of the Church as their two popes have conceived it. And -- having been involved -- I don't see any reason to think that those people won't look to yet another version of LRH & DM to take over when and if DM is deposed. I say that because I understand the process of conditioning, in-doctrine-ation, instruction, socialization, habituation and normalization that goes on there from first-hand experience.

cc: u/dangtheyscary

You might check out this book.
Captive Hearts, Captive Minds : Freedom and Recovery from Cults and Other Abusive Relationships https://smile.amazon.com/dp/0897931440/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_i_xB2pDbGCF04ZG

This? https://www.amazon.com/Rajneesh-Bible-Vol-1/dp/0880502002

For those who may find this intresting, in teh video I discussed the Aldolfo Constanzo Cult and their murder of Mark Kilroy.

I grew up in the neighboring town where Mark lived and was raised, I actually know his parents and have visited their hwouse and to this day they still have a PC I built for them. I will admit it was a weird and eerie vibe in the home and turns out the room we were putting the PC in was originally Mark's bedroom. They had pictures of him everywhere. His parenst are very nice people and it really was a sad what happened to him. They won't discuss it with people, but his father did write a book called Sacrifice, you can see in teh link below.

Sacrifice

Sorry I wouldn't feel right not at least telling this and letting people know this book exists.