Witness Calls Workplace Cult-Like SUIT: EMPLOYEES REQUIRED TO WALK ACROSS COALS, TAKE PART IN SHOUTING SESSIONS By Tracy M. Neal (Northwest Arkansas News) BENTONVILLE — An expert witness testified an ex- minority owner in Premier Concepts is recovering from what she called a cult-like environment at the business. Janja Lalich, sociology professor at California State…
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Texas Observer Article on Homestead Heritage
Posted on Monday, March 19th, 2012Heritage of Abuse Texas Observer Exclusive: Waco religious group accused of child abuse, beatings and cover-ups by Alex Hannaford Published on: Friday, February 10, 2012 Photo by Mike Davis Homestead Heritage during a craft fair in 2009. Driving up to the pretty café, built of log and stone and nestled among cedars at the side…
Radio Interview on Nancy’s Bookshelf
Posted on Thursday, April 1st, 2010This is an interview with Dr. Lalich about her books on KCHO-Fm radio in Chico on Oct. 7, 2009 on the program, “Nancy’s Bookshelf.”
Dr. Lalich Testifies in Murder Trial
Posted on Thursday, November 12th, 2009Click the link below to read article from South Lake Tahoe newspaper: http://www.tahoedailytribune.com/article/2009911109981
Meditation May Be Hazardous…
Posted on Saturday, April 4th, 2009Warning: Meditating May Be Hazardous to Your Health San Francisco Weekly, August 28, 2002 BY SANDY BRUNDAGE Bad Vibes Karen Long (a pseudonym), in her mid-20s, turned to meditation as a way to feel connected. “I wanted to experience that ‘oneness with the universe,’” she says. At a nondenominational San Francisco temple, she hooked up…
Smart Kidnapping
Posted on Saturday, April 4th, 2009Why Did She Not Escape? BY BROOKE ADAMS © 2003, THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE The sightings now seem to be coming from everywhere – Elizabeth Smart, disguised in wigs and veils, glasses and shapeless overclothes, at parties, at stores, walking a public street in broad daylight. So why didn’t she run? The details of Elizabeth…
On Elizabeth Smart & Brainwashing
Posted on Saturday, April 4th, 2009What Any Reasonable Person Would Do by John Allemang Globe and Mail (Toronto), March 22, 2003, p. F10 Almost as soon as he had been reunited with his daughter Elizabeth, Ed Smart announced that she had been brainwashed. Media outlets quickly picked up on the term, and before long it became the most common way…
Elizabeth Smart Kidnapping
Posted on Saturday, April 4th, 2009NPR Morning Edition March 14, 2003 “Questions Surround Smart Kidnapping” This link will take you to the audio file: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1192307
Heaven’s Gate Revisited
Posted on Saturday, April 4th, 2009This article in the San Diego Union-Tribune was published on March 18, 2007, ten years after the collective suicide of the members of the Heaven’s Gate cult. The article includes an insert entitled “Overview: Cults Today,” based on an interview with Dr. Lalich. This link will take you to the site: http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/northcounty/20070318-9999-lz1n18heaven.html