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Occultism is one form of mysticism. [a] This list comprises and encompasses people, both contemporary and historical, who are or were professionally or otherwise notably involved in occult practices, including alchemists, astrologers, some Kabbalists, [b] magicians, psychics, sorcerers, and practitioners some forms of divination, especially Tarot.
Richard P. Rodriguez [2] was born on January 25, 1975, in Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain, as David Moses Zerby.His mother was Karen Zerby, the spiritual leader of the religious cult Children of God (COG), and his father was a Spanish hotel waiter named Carlos whom Zerby had "Flirty Fished", a practice in which female cult members would have sex with men to draw in potential converts. [3]
Venta (foreground, wearing headband) and other WKFL members carrying a plane crash victim to an ambulance. The Fountain of the World first gained national exposure in 1949 when the news reported that Fountain members were among the first to offer aid to the victims of Standard Air Lines Flight 897R, which crashed into the Simi Hills, killing 35 of the 48 people on board.
All members of the cult brutally beat, burned, cut and mutilated their victim (who was always a dissenting member), before leaving them to bleed to death. [1] They then deposited the blood in a chalice, mixed with chicken blood and narcotics (mostly marijuana or peyote ), from which Solís drank before passing it along to the brothers and ...
[23] [29] [30] This was allegedly so he could "prove himself" as a member of the "Maniac Murder Cult". [23] He was sentenced to 14 years in prison in August 2023. [11] In March 2023, 17-year-old founder Bradley Chance Cadenhead pled guilty to nine counts of possession of child pornography. [31]
Aum Shinrikyo (called the "Aum cult") [7] In 2005, the Hate Crimes Unit of the Edmonton Police Service confiscated anti-Falun Gong materials distributed at the annual conference of the American Family Association by staff members of the Calgary Chinese Consulate (Province of Alberta, Canada). The materials, including the calling of Falun Gong a ...
Cult members who plotted to kidnap and falsely imprison a coroner they accused of “necromancy” have been jailed. Senior coroner for Essex Lincoln Brookes, who was not at the coroner’s court ...
Destructive cult is a term frequently used by the anti-cult movement. [18] Members of the anti-cult movement typically define a destructive cult as a group that is unethical, deceptive, and one that uses "strong influence" or mind control techniques to affect critical thinking skills. [32]