Read What Very Few Will Tell You Or Else They'll Be Sad

Vanna White 'fears that she is losing her teenage son to the Hare Krishnas'

A culture of cult worship

Why Vegan Diets Are A Terrible Idea

Health care profession 

is increasingly adopting meditation

Mike Adams puts Chicken McNuggets 

“under the microscope.” Hilarity ensues.

Hare Krishna Threats, A Non-Emergency, Scary Eastern Lightning, Forget About "Soulmates" & Building Loners

Horrifying Threats Against Congresswoman 

Tied To Obscure Hare Krishna Sect

World Federation of Scientists 

changes its policy: 

“Climate change in itself is not a planetary emergency.”

China's Scary And Fast-Growing Cult 

Eastern Lightning

Do’s and Don’ts 

When Your Partner isn’t Spiritual

Cult-itecture: 

The Compounds Of Reclusive Communities

Somebody Got A Connecting Flight Outta Here

"It's pretty conclusive and it doesn't look like there are any loopholes. As far as I can tell, it's over."

-- David Liberman, attorney for the Hare Krishnas, on the latest court ruling against the cult - finally barring them from their long-time practice of soliciting donations at Los Angeles International Airport - which is music to my ears, courtesy of CBS News.

This Snake Claims He Wants You To Be "Normal" (But Follow Everything He Tells You To Do/Buy)

"Not all members of cults are the victims of mind control. Few are socially inept or psychologically flawed. In fact, most cult members tend to be well educated and come from stable and loving family backgrounds. They tend to be 'normal' like you or me or your neighbor. I wanted to find out why and how people can become so committed. And I wanted to apply the insight from the most intense form of belonging (cults, such as Krishna) to lesser and newer forms (brand cults, such as Apple, and online communities.)

That was six years ago, and those insights were published in a book: The Culting of Brands: turn your customers into true believers. Since then, brand communities have mushroomed."

-- Douglas Atkin, admitting this is a culture in the throes of massive cult control - but claiming there's nothing wrong with being manipulated as everything goes to shit - which is the same lie all cult leaders use, even those appearing in Forbes.

Yea, yea, yea. I ask you, seriously:

Does this guy - who's been studying cult techniques for his own financial benefit - look like someone with your best interests at heart?

He looks like someone who needs his ass kicked, if you ask me,...

Nirvana

"At my local bookstore on the eve of the 40th anniversary of Woodstock, 1960s nostalgia is in high gear. A display table is stacked high with pricey coffee table books, each with its own variation on psychedelic rainbow lettering, each claiming to reveal the untold story of the 'peace and music' festival. I understand the lucrative business of selling those hazy memories — the Woodstock museum, Cherry Garcia ice cream, even the new movie 'Taking Woodstock.' I just can't buy into it.

It's not because, as a Gen-Xer, I feel slighted that I missed out on all the fun. It's because for me and many other children of the flower children, our rose-colored glasses are not just slightly tinted, but darkly tainted.

Along with the iconic music and fashion came myriad new religions and a foolish rush to embrace peddlers of spiritual snake oil. A flood of swamis, yogis and self-proclaimed enlightened beings preyed on hippies who were disillusioned by mainstream religion and in search of an alternative path.

By the time the mud had dried at Woodstock, Swami Prabhupada had created the Hare Krishnas and the Rev. Sun Myung Moon had founded the Unification Church — the Moonies. Communes and ashrams sprouted across America. In the 1960s, the decade now mythic for its anti-conformity, flocks of people conformed to the dictates of self-proclaimed prophets.

In 1968, the Beatles sat at the feet of the Maharishi. Consciousness-raising went mainstream. Reciting Sanskrit chants, wearing japa beads and finding a guru became chic. Everyone who was anyone read 'I Am That' and 'Autobiography of a Yogi.' Many free spirits obediently changed their names, dropped out of college and abandoned their families. Ironically, their wild-child rebellion landed them in rigidly structured cults that controlled their lives — and those of their children."

-- Jayanti Tamm, author of "Cartwheels in a Sari: A Memoir of Growing Up Cult", saying what the rest of you can't admit - you are the indoctrinated children of cultish madmen - as part of her Daily Tidings.

Yea, This Is Bad: Today I Piss On All Of You

"Mr Dawkins: 'What about Riverhead ... Is that a cult situation?'

Woman: 'It was a cult, yes. It was Hare Krishna.' The woman said she had left and returned to the cult over the years before finally leaving about eight years ago.

Her daughter had struggled with conventional education. She had learnt to read at a very early age, she said.

'They (school), with good intentions, took a five-year-old and put her with 10 and 11-year-olds because she was their standard,' she said. 'At five she was doing crosswords, researching in the library and reading Charlotte's Web.'

That led to 'alienation' at school, the woman said. 'She looked at them (the other children) and wondered what was wrong with them why they were so dumb.'"

-- The Southland Times, reporting the testimony of the mother of another child killer (this time, it's the daughter who smothered her baby, after being in the Hare Krishna cult) which, for all you dummies - hey, at least, she got that part right - is just so much Stuff.

Why Cultism Is It's Own Reward

"I have to emphasize that when I was 4, I didn't make the choice, unlike adults, to join a religion that celebrates poverty, lack of family, and viewing the world as a Kali Yuga hellhole that we must leave ASAP. Now as a result, many of us have grown up into exactly what was planned for us -- emotionally disturbed, unskilled losers, while many others around us who had normal childhoods are prospering with happy lives complete with families of their own. It's no wonder some have attempted or chosen to end their lives through suicide."

-- Ganganam Dasa, on life for those born into a cult, for Hari Krishna.com.

And Throw Your Spouse A Bit Of That Too

"Give the lender confidence that six months after you’ve closed your loan, you won’t abandon the property to join a Hare Krishna colony.”

-- Gary Eldred, in "106 Mortgage Secrets," reprinted on Luke Ford.net.