In A Cult A Day, Mark Hay will be highlighting the width and breadth of cults across the world, moving past the glitzy, demystifying the label and trying to learn some lessons along the way.
A Cult A Day: Transcendental Meditation
Cult or not, Transcendental Meditation is spirituality commoditized.
A Cult A Day: Aum Shinrikyo
Despite the horrors and mass murders it carried out, Aum Shinrikyo actually started out as a non-violent branch of Buddhism
A Cult A Day: The Solar Temple
Between 1994 and 1997, the Order of the Solar Temple was implicated in the murder-suicide deaths of 74 people in Canada, France and Switzerland.
A Cult A Day: The Rajneeshees
They carried out the largest bio-terror attack on American soil and conducted the largest illegal (slash non-governmental) wiretapping program in our history.
A Cult A Day: The Family
The madman behind the cult is a masters course unto himself in the art of brainwashing and self-promotion.
A Cult A Day: The John Frum Movement
One of the South Pacific's most notorious, best studied, and most enlightening (yet often derided) cargo cults
A Cult A Day: Altruria
Altruria is the perfect example of when fiction becomes reality.
A Cult A Day: Arya Samaj
The Arya Samaj movement is a rare example of an altruistic cult that didn't descend into madness or fall apart with time.
A Cult A Day: Mazdaznan
Mazdaznan's leader was a pioneer in religious branding that still works on many of us today.
A Cult A Day: Subud
In 1925, while walking home one night Subuh claims that he was enveloped in a bright light, a divine impact that led to a spiritual empire.
