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In an excerpt from her book 'Sex Cult Nun,' Faith Jones recalls her tumultuous childhood spent in the fundamentalist group Children of God.

Recent calls to deprogram QAnon conspiracy followers are steeped in discredited notions about brainwashing. As popularly imagined, brainwashing is a coercive procedure that programs new long-term personality changes. Deprogramming, also coercive, is thought to undo brainwashing. As a professor of religious studies who has written and taught about alternative religious movements, I believe such deprogramming conversations do little to help us understand why people adopt QAnon beliefs. A deprogramming discourse fails to understand religious recruitment and conversion and excuses those spreading...

Source: The Conversation – USA – By Paul Thomas, Chair and Professor of Religious Studies, Radford University Recent calls to deprogram QAnon conspiracy followers are steeped in discredited notions about brainwashing. As popularly imagined, brainwashing is a coercive procedure that programs new long-term personality changes. Deprogramming, also coercive, is thought to undo brainwashing. As a professor of religious studies who has written and taught about alternative religious movements, I believe such deprogramming conversations do little to help us understand why people adopt QAnon...

Exclusive from Dr. Raymond A. Keller’s Venus Files:  Original artwork for cover of UFO Education Center’s Cosmic Newsletter, Issue #13, February 1973, as prepared by Charlotte Blob, the Center Director, on 31 January 1973.  Dr. Keller has a complete set of the Cosmic Newsletter in addition to much of the correspondence from the Appleton, Wisconsin, headquarters of the UFO Education Center in his vast archives which are stored in a temperature-controlled storage area in the backwoods of West Virginia. “Mythology in Embryo” When the Swiss psychologist Carl Gustav Jung finished his gro...

>> he only served to put more pressure on ted i think because all these new expectations i think were projected on to him. >> ted got a lot on his shoulders just being in the shadow of the great jfk and rfk. >> he was the baby brother. he was the child in his parent's old age, the adored little brother of eight older siblings. he was supposed to be cute and amusing, a little rascal and adored. >> in 1968 ted and joan kennedy celebrate their tenth wedding anniversary. they have three children, edward, and ted patrick. >> ted kennedy and his first wife, joan, had a very difficult relationship. >...