#cults — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #cults, aggregated by home.social.
-
🔴 LIVE NOW ON VORTEX
📻 Vortex Dawn 🌅 (Neoclassical, ambient, soft post-rock)
──────────────
🎵 Cults - Always Forever▶️ Écouter / Listen : VorteX [Radio]
https://lesonduvortex.net💬 Join us on Discord:
https://discord.gg/d82hJZBeDE -
🔴 LIVE NOW ON VORTEX
📻 Vortex Abyss 🕳️ (Dark ambient, neofolk, shoegaze, immersive)
──────────────
🎵 Cults - Always Forever▶️ Écouter / Listen : VorteX [Radio]
https://lesonduvortex.net💬 Join us on Discord:
https://discord.gg/d82hJZBeDE -
I've been saying for years that #SiliconValley operates as a massive #cult - but #PeterThiel (#Palentir) forgot the #1 rule of #cults: don't ever claim to be one.
But here we are faced with a #VentureCapital cult that wants to destroy #democracy, because they want all the power and money.
For how much #antigovernment rhetoric you get from these guys, they sure love colluding with #governments, #despots and #autocrats.
#PeterThiel's Anti-Human Plan Is Pure Evil
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Onphky37vik -
[Edit*]An older but ever-relevant of ICSA Today with articles on recovering from sexual abuse in cults, how to communicate with loved ones inside cults, the spread of conspiracy theories in France, and multi-generational cult survivors.
https://library.internationalculticstudies.org/24n7ceh/
[The issue is from 2021, but they emailed around an article from it recently.]
#ReligiousTrauma #cult #cults #exmo #exmormon #exvie #exvangelical #ICSA
-
The ICSA has a journal article about how career counseling can help protect vulnerable kids from trafficking and cults.
Surprise! Poverty increases risk. Having a solid sense of identity helps prevent risk.
Abstract: 'Human trafficking is a rapidly expanding global criminal industry that frequently targets children and adolescents by preying on their vulnerabilities. This article presents research identifying seven categories of susceptibility in Generation Z, with a specific focus on how poverty and low personal achievement increase the risk of being trafficked. The authors propose that career counseling can serve as a vital preventive measure by building self-sufficiency, motivation, and a long-term “career self-concept” that helps youth reject the immediate gratification offered by predators.'
(Sorry, it's Substack.)
https://icsatoday.substack.com/p/could-career-counseling-help-protect
#ReligiousTrauma #cult #cults #exmo #exmormon #exvie #exvangelical
-
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x5baPn6SAQA
#US #USA #USPol #USPoli #USPolitics #America #Propaganda #Capitalism #Socialism #SocialDemocracy #LandOfTheFree #Freedom #Liberty #Education #Brainwashed #Colonialism #Healthcare #Childcare #ParentalLeave #ImperialOverstretch #CriticalThinking #Cults #MindControl #Gerrymandering #FPTP #TwoPartySystem #RankedChoice #RankedChoiceVoting #PledgeOfAllegiance #QuestionAuthority #ChristianNationalism #AmericanExceptionalism
-
Growing Pains: Woman cries about how hard it is to be #ExMAGA. The internet doesn’t take it well.
-
Apparently a church is going to be built around the corner from my house, by the Brethren.
Someone should go bury a hex jar on the site before they lay the concrete.
Someone should definitely do that..
Anyways, in other news I need to pop out to bunnings and get some barbed wire, fish hooks, and some nails tomorrow.
#AusPol #Australia #election #Brethren #Cults #Religion #RegionalAustralia #Bathurst #BathurstNSW #witch #spellwork
-
Apparently a church is going to be built around the corner from my house, by the Brethren.
Someone should go bury a hex jar on the site before they lay the concrete.
Someone should definitely do that..
Anyways, in other news I need to pop out to bunnings and get some barbed wire, fish hooks, and some nails tomorrow.
#AusPol #Australia #election #Brethren #Cults #Religion #RegionalAustralia #Bathurst #BathurstNSW #witch #spellwork
-
Apparently a church is going to be built around the corner from my house, by the Brethren.
Someone should go bury a hex jar on the site before they lay the concrete.
Someone should definitely do that..
Anyways, in other news I need to pop out to bunnings and get some barbed wire, fish hooks, and some nails tomorrow.
#AusPol #Australia #election #Brethren #Cults #Religion #RegionalAustralia #Bathurst #BathurstNSW #witch #spellwork
-
Apparently a church is going to be built around the corner from my house, by the Brethren.
Someone should go bury a hex jar on the site before they lay the concrete.
Someone should definitely do that..
Anyways, in other news I need to pop out to bunnings and get some barbed wire, fish hooks, and some nails tomorrow.
#AusPol #Australia #election #Brethren #Cults #Religion #RegionalAustralia #Bathurst #BathurstNSW #witch #spellwork
-
Apparently a church is going to be built around the corner from my house, by the Brethren.
Someone should go bury a hex jar on the site before they lay the concrete.
Someone should definitely do that..
Anyways, in other news I need to pop out to bunnings and get some barbed wire, fish hooks, and some nails tomorrow.
#AusPol #Australia #election #Brethren #Cults #Religion #RegionalAustralia #Bathurst #BathurstNSW #witch #spellwork
-
#CRINGE #Theist Gets Hung Up On #Pronouns - Completely #FAILS to Make a Case | Forrest & Promise
-
Thirty years ago, Aum's sarin attack on Tokyo's subway system killed 14, injured 6,000 and exposed the group's criminal activities and the authorities' failure to act despite prior warnings. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/editorials/2025/03/21/aum-thirty-years-later/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #editorials #matsumotochizuo #aumshinrikyo #saringasattack #tokyo #cults #shokoasahara
-
The #TenthCommandment: Don't #Covet | #Belief It Or Not
#Contentment is the opposite of #coveting apparently, but is contentment important?
Created by Trevor Poelman
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2u40JzRE3ZM
#desire #consumerism #christmas #gifts #capitalism #shopping #hoarders #10thcommandment #atheist #atheism #religion #christianity #christian #cults -
The #TenthCommandment: Don't #Covet | #Belief It Or Not
#Contentment is the opposite of #coveting apparently, but is contentment important?
Created by Trevor Poelman
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2u40JzRE3ZM
#desire #consumerism #christmas #gifts #capitalism #shopping #hoarders #10thcommandment #atheist #atheism #religion #christianity #christian #cults -
The #TenthCommandment: Don't #Covet | #Belief It Or Not
#Contentment is the opposite of #coveting apparently, but is contentment important?
Created by Trevor Poelman
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2u40JzRE3ZM
#desire #consumerism #christmas #gifts #capitalism #shopping #hoarders #10thcommandment #atheist #atheism #religion #christianity #christian #cults -
A sociological rather than psychological notion of susceptibility to being drawn into cults
Terror, Love and Brainwashing: Attachment in Cults and Totalitarian Systems, by Alexandra Stein loc 2029:
For over half a century, then, scholars of totalism from Arendt to Zimbardo have found that there is no personality profile of a potential recruit to a totalist or extremist group. In 2011, a UK government report confirmed yet again that “researchers concluded there was no ‘vulnerability profile’ to help identify those at risk of becoming radicalized without creating an ‘unmanageable number of false positives.’”54 As these studies show, it is unhelpful to continue looking for a profile of a “typical” terrorist or cult recruit – most of us could become vulnerable given the right conditions, the right group and the right time. A far more fruitful approach is to understand the profile, methods and operating (perhaps we should say “hunting”) grounds of the organizations to which people are recruited, and to be able to distinguish effectively between open and relatively benign organizations from dangerous, totalist organizations that are capable of exerting extreme levels of control over their members.
This fits well with Seymour’s account of disaster nationalism. If the issue is a matter of conditions rather than psychological type, a increase in the production of those conditions and their distribution across the population, leads to a great susceptibility across population to be drawn into (now digitally mediated and distributed) cults. From loc 2002:
Singer, who counseled thousands of former cult members, described a key vulnerability as being in a normal life “blip.”50 That is, some recent, yet developmentally normal, change in life situation such as a recent move to attend university, a divorce or other relationship breakup, perhaps a death in the family, or a change of job or housing. War, natural disasters or social upheavals – such as the breakup of the former Soviet Union, or the current collapsed states of Syria or Somalia – can contribute to weakening family and community ties leading to increased social fragmentation and isolation. Simply living in the contemporary developed world, with fewer neighborhood ties and more dispersed families, means most of us live in increasingly vulnerable social networks.
#AlexandraStein #conspiracyTheory #crisis #cults #disasterNationalism #psychology
-
This is going to be a very, very horrible and lethal timeline/reality to just be a mundane human without any occult or esoteric knowledge or psychic and magical abilities in. Considering the rate of survival for “normal” people, I do not envy them. My husband and I are very sensitive to magical and psychic energy. For my husband, it boosts his divinatory and precognitive abilities. He will suddenly start having visions and will develop an interest in refining his astrological skills. For me, it makes me very hungry as a vampire and dark. If you are a regular human, you are pretty much screwed. If there is a nuclear war, and you are a regular human, you will probably die.
I think that’s how magical skills and psychic abilities will probably spread. I think it will spread through natural selection following a nuclear war. That’s why I think magical organizations trying to make the world more magical through their magical operations being horrified that we are teetering on the collapse of civilization shows how asinine and short-sighted their goals were. Evolution works through survivorship.
It’s conventionally asserted and believed that magic shifts probabilities. Shifting probabilities, even on small scales, changes the stochastic aspects of radiation. The number and energy of radiation particles detected at a given location and time fluctuate randomly due to various environmental factors. In addition to that, when radiation interacts with matter, such as in scattering or absorption processes, the outcomes are probabilistic. That means that a magician who has a latent ability to shift probabilities and the implicit desire to live will shift probabilities so that high-energy radioactive particles are unlikely to hit and shred their genetic and cellular physiology. A really neat way to visualize this is to create a DIY cloud chamber and record it and have it in the vicinity whenever you do any magical operation. If your magic has a bit of power, it will interfere with the background radiation via changing the ionization energy of what you see in the cloud chamber. You will be able to see it.
Want to prove Einstein’s Special Relativity? Build this.
I try to keep the woo down and avoid using buzzwords as buzzwords. A field is a structured set. In mathematics, a set is a collection of distinct objects, considered as an entity. A field is a structured set. A structured set refers to a set equipped with additional elements or operations that give it a specific organization or arrangement. So, we can say that a psychic field is an organized collection of entities that possess subjective characteristics, i.e., qualia. The properties in the topology of that field would have values.
If we say that each property or cell of that field is at equilibrium, then a wave is when one cell is not at equilibrium and propagates a change. It spreads a change to the other adjacent cells that push them out of equilibrium. If you have a grid and all the values are 0, a wave would be a change in values from the first row and first column from left to right. It would wrap around each row and changes the values from 0 to a different value, too. That is a wave. The ability for one psychic entity to propagate a wave of change to another is the potential energy, i.e., dunamis, and the actual changing of those other things is energia. There are analogs to potential and kinetic energy on a psychic level.
While it may seem like I am some flavor of animist, I am on the fence about that. I frequently say that will is analogous to mass in that mass is a property that resists acceleration. Will is a phenomenological property that when you try to get someone to do something, their will intervenes and resists you. Consent is a property where a person’s will does not act to stop you. When someone explicitly violates a person’s consent, they are acting against the will of that person. Psychic phenomena imply a more fundamental, higher-dimensional phenomenological domain. From that perspective, a table has a psychic aspect to it where it can experience and observe itself. But, when I act on that table, the table cannot resist me. It has no will. Conscious entities have a will. An entity that is a body of experiences is not necessarily conscious and doesn’t necessarily have a will. It’s still energy to be ordered, where it begins to have a will when it interacts with my will. It would be analogous to massless energy — light. So, manipulating psychic energy that comes from the existence of tables and rocks would be like manipulating light. It has psychic energy that emerges from a subjective characteristic of experience where the rock reflexively perceives itself, yet it has no will. Mythologies, stories, and fictions are ways that we can organize this energy, where the seed of its emergence as a conscious entity comes from collective will.
Earth has an atmosphere of gas around our planet. Psychic fields are coherent and cohesive in the same way gas or liquid is. Similar to how there is a flow to liquids and air currents, there is a flow to our consciousness. In the same way this gas can heat up in such a way that it drives air currents and streams and creates storms and all sorts of other meteorological phenomena, energy added to the psychic atmosphere of our planet can do similar things. Because my husband and I are highly sensitive to this, we experience an increase in our abilities and an alignment of our personality traits in certain ways. There’s a huge psychic storm building up. I wonder if it is cyclical. Something similar happened a few years ago, so I wonder if the cyclical spiral society finds itself in beneath the heavens is being mirrored above in the heavens.
#anarchism #anarchist #anarchists #anarchy #Animism #animistic #Astral #astrological #astrology #chaosMagic #chaosMagick #conspiracyTheories #conspiracyTheory #cults #divination #dystopia #dystopian #egregore #egregores #energyWork #godforms #Metaphysics #nuclearWar #occult #occultism #pagan #paganism #paranormal #psychic #Psychokinesis #servitor #servitors #vampire #vampires #witch #witchcraft #WorldWar #WorldWar3 #WorldWarIII #WW3 #WWIII
-
There are professions and individuals who, by virtue of their teachings must live life cleaner and with more integrity than others.
https://www.friendlyatheist.com/p/former-hillsong-leader-brian-houston?
But mega-church pastors seem to prove they are immune to integrity and having to live the life these pastors insist their followers and “believers” must follow/live.
#Hypocrisy doesn't look good on these #MegaChurch shitheads. But once you join those types of #cults, it's too late to unfollow them. #StuckWithEvil
-
@jonsagara The so-called 'Death Tapes" are so haunting and chilling. The audio reels were re-used so often during #Jonestown that when they frequently re-recorded on top of them, you could still hear the ghosts of previous recordings faintly playing in the background. 😔
Stay away from #cults people! 😮
Your life is your own! 💪
-
In retrospect, I should have tried cult leader as a career path.
#careers #careerguidance #jobs #cults #NewReligions #careerpath
