Hi subscribers! Amazingly, Undertow’s 7th birthday is this November. One way I’m celebrating is by sharing extra bonus material with you that’s related to my cult story, such as another insightful book review below. I’ll do this until Nov. 1st. On that day, I’ll send you a special post explaining … [Read more…]
Hi folks. With permission from Dr. Lalich, PhD, Professor Emerita of Sociology at California State Univerity, Chico, author of Bounded Choice: True Believers and Charismatic Cults and other books about cults —and supporter of my memoir, Undertow—I am extremely pleased to post the following event announcent. I hope to see … [Read more…]
Greetings subscribers. Don’t you love it when you come across something in your files that you forgot about but glad you kept? The following is a letter I emailed to The New Yorker magazine in March, 2011, in response to an article they published by Lawrence Wright, titled: “The Apostate.” … [Read more…]
Stop the travel story presses for the moment! They will begin next month with a peek into our trip to Greece, 2001. Today, however, I wanted to send you a quick note to do three things. To acquaint you with an investigative journalist, Frank Parleto. To give you the link … [Read more…]
Greetings, especially to those of you interested in cults and their downsides. Today, I’m happy to republish the following E-Newsletter, “Deception, Dependency, and Dread in the Conversion Process” with permission of the author, Michael D. Langone, who holds a PhD in counseling psychology and is executive director of International Cultic … [Read more…]