Documentaries on Cults

[Nemra]

Prophet's Prey

Overview:

Filmmaker Amy Berg sheds light on the sexual, financial and spiritual abuses heaped upon members of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints by their former leader, Warren Jeffs.

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[Nemra]

Trust Me: The False Prophet

Overview:

A cult expert and her videographer husband embed themselves in a vulnerable FLDS community in Utah, where they discover disturbing evidence about Samuel Bateman, who claims to be the successor to imprisoned prophet Warren Jeffs.

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[Nemra]

Heaven's Gate: The Cult of Cults

Overview:

An examination of the UFO cult through the eyes of its former members and their loved ones; what starts with the disappearance of 20 people from an Oregon town, ends with the largest suicide on U.S. soil.

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[Nemra]

The Way Down: God, Greed, and the Cult of Gwen Shamblin

Overview:

The rise and fall of "Weigh Down Workshop," Gwen Shamblin Lara's religious weight-loss regimen.

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[Nemra]

The Vow

Overview:

Following the experiences of people deeply involved in the self-improvement group NXIVM, an organization under siege with charges including sex trafficking and racketeering conspiracy brought against its highest members and founder Keith Raniere.

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[Nemra]

"The Vow" documentary TV series goes into details of the NXIVM cult. It's so damn good.

It has two seasons; a total of 15 episodes.

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[Leo Gura]

Good topic. Thanks! We need moar!

[Raze]

 

[Nemra]

NXIVM is one of the non-cartoonish and sneakiest cults I have ever observed. It tried to make people think that their beliefs are limiting them and then it preyed on their open-mindedness without giving them the power of opening their minds for themselves. No believing in outlandish stuff.

This is genius!

Also, cult leaders have a hypnotic nature that gravitates people towards themselves, who are more prone to hypnosis.

People can easily judge the victims, however they overestimate their ability to notice whether they are in a cult or not.

[Nemra]

12 hours ago, Leo Gura said:

Good topic. Thanks!

No problem.

12 hours ago, Leo Gura said:

We need moar!

I will share more. I will devour them all. 

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[Nemra]

In the episode 8 of "The Vow" documentary, it goes into detail of how the cult leader, Keith Raniere, trains women to experience humiliation that he says men experience so that they could understand men in the guise of open-mindedness. He was manipulating those women into feeling bad for men's hardships and sneakily blaming them for making men's lives more complicated. He thought of abuse as nonsense.

Eventually, he started to guilt-trip them all using the injustices of the world.

However, in the beginning, he was talking with those women as if he cared to understand them.

Jeez.

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[Nemra]

Quote

"If it weren't for sociopaths, we wouldn't understand compassion." — Keith Raniere

In a twisted way, it's true. 

Of course, he was trying to make sociopaths seem superior to people who can have compassion, as if compassion itself is some sort of illness.

He really believed that he was an awakened person because he hadn't experienced compassion.

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[UnbornTao]

Can probably find some on Teal Swan.

Cults can also look comparatively normal and mellow; no need for extravagant, crazy stuff.