Media Reports

This 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.”

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…