I thought I'd take this conversation over here. I'm not surprised you know Constance Cumbey -- she has a lot of interesting things to say. I've been looking at New Age and other cults and terror cells for a long time. You can go back to 19th Century Utopian Colonies, and it's the same damn thing as Koresh or NXVIM: pyramid schemes hiding behind socialism; reeducation methods that barely change over time; leaders get to dictate sexual practices and sleep with everyone; families get deconstructed; fascination with spiritualism or the supernatural, then finally New Age Religion itself; eugenics of one form or another are promoted. New Age, cults, and terrorist cells have surprisingly similar characteristics.
I thought I'd take this conversation over here. I'm not surprised you know Constance Cumbey -- she has a lot of interesting things to say. I've been looking at New Age and other cults and terror cells for a long time. You can go back to 19th Century Utopian Colonies, and it's the same damn thing as Koresh or NXVIM: pyramid schemes hiding behind socialism; reeducation methods that barely change over time; leaders get to dictate sexual practices and sleep with everyone; families get deconstructed; fascination with spiritualism or the supernatural, then finally New Age Religion itself; eugenics of one form or another are promoted. New Age, cults, and terrorist cells have surprisingly similar characteristics.
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