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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 ...
Death Cult issued one more release under their original name, "Gods Zoo", before renaming themselves the Cult in January 1984. [3] The band released their full-length debut Dreamtime in September, early copies of which were packaged with Dreamtime Live at the Lyceum. [4] Another single, "Ressurection Joe", followed at the end of the year. [5]
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 ...
Glenn Close spent her childhood as a member of a cult-like religious group called the Moral Re-Armament.
All members of Thailand's royal family, past and present, are officially venerated in a personality cult, especially beginning with King Bhumibol Adulyadej's ascension to the throne. [193] Huge portraits of Bhumibol and his son and successor King Maha Vajiralongkorn , and other members of the royal family are disseminated throughout the country.
Father Yod bestowed each member with a first name; they changed their middle and last names to the Aquarian. Like many religious and spiritual groups, the Source Family placed their faith in ...
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]
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 ...