Media Reports

Click the link below to read article from South Lake Tahoe newspaper:
http://www.tahoedailytribune.com/article/2009911109981

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Warning: 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 with a group of [...]

Why 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 Smart’s nine months in [...]

What 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 of explaining the [...]

NPR 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

This 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

CNN Interview with Janja Lalich
CNN Impact/March 30, 1997
Moderator says, “Welcome to the TIME/CNN IMPACT forum. Tonight at 10 p.m., we’re discussing the mass suicide in San Diego last week with Janja Lalich, the Educational Director of Community Resources on Influence and Control, an outreach service directed at educating the public about the potential dangers [...]

From the Oakland Tribune
By Jill Tucker and Jason Dearen
Sunday, November 16, 2003
THE WHITEWASHED chair is empty.
Several bodies are face down on the floor in front of it, their arms wrapped around each other — a final attempt at comfort, frozen in death.
Hanging above, a wooden sign with stark white words deliver a pointed message:
“Those who do [...]

originally from http://www.livescience.com/health/080409-cults-sects.html
by Jeanna Bryner
The allegedly polygamous group whose compound was raided this week in Texas is either a religious sect or a full-blown cult, depending on whom you ask.
The raided compound was founded by jailed polygamist leader Warren Jeffs, who took over in 2002 as prophet of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of [...]