cults
Πήγα σε ένα Βeach Party για Πρώην Σαϊεντεολόγους, Μορμόνους και Χασιδιστές Εβραίους
Και ναι, έχουν πολλά κοινά μεταξύ τους.
Πλύση Εγκεφάλου σε Παιδιά από την Εκκλησία Βαπτιστών του Γουέστμπορο
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Ο Moby Φωτογραφίζει την Πρώτη Μετα-Αποκαλυπτική Αίρεση του Κόσμου
Μας μίλησε για τις διαφορές της εικόνας από τη μουσική και για την υποκειμενικότητα των συμβόλων.
Sex Church
Members of the Little Pebble Dohsyuku-kai gather in a cluttered space each morning and await secret messages from the Virgin Mary. Afterward, Jean-Marie lubes up a woman’s belly and pussy with yogurt and has sex with her at an altar as the other...
I Joined NYC's Most Boring Cult
Aesthetic Realism is the worship of a poet who killed himself in the 1970s. He claimed to have discovered the "One True Answer" to societal ills. His panacea goes something like this: man has a desire to like the world while fostering an equal and...
I Used to Be a Scientologist, Now I Help People Out of Cults by Smoking Weed
Dennis Erlich was the original guy who exposed the craziness of Scientology on the internet. A member since 1967 and later a minister, he started to rebel against the church in the mid-80s. Now he runs a support group to help people out of cults...
Four Days at Toddstock
Todd Rungren is like Prince or David Bowie—a timeless, genre-spanning artist who did nearly everything first. Or at least that's what I learned while hanging out with his biggest fans for four days during a massive birthday party for Rundgren on a...
A Cult Is Trying to Recruit Bob Dylan Fans
Did you know that “Blowin' in the Wind” was about Dylan recognizing “that if hope for a better life in a better world dies in the human heart, evil will reign forever over the human race”? Or that "A Hard Rain's a-Gonna Fall" lets us know that "a day...
The 40-Year-Old Town at the End of the World
We traveled to Nueva Jerusalén, a town run by apocalyptic priests who say they receive orders from the Virgin Mary, to see why people there were so angry they destroyed a public school with sledgehammers.
Happy Science Is the Laziest Cult Ever
Last Saturday I had an appointment with the Parisian branch of Happy Science, a syncretic Japanese sect that appears to be made up of the most contradictory, gross, bizarre ideas the world has ever mustered up.
Paulette Cooper Exposes for the World the Darkest Secrets of Scientology and Cats
What caused Scientologists to go from arch mysterions suppressing every iota of information about their beliefs to becoming the laughingstock of the entire planet? A blond Jewish lady named Paulette Cooper.