Professional cult deprogrammer Rick Alan Ross joins WIRED to answer the internet’s burning questions about cults. What makes a cult a cult exactly? What are some signs you’re in one? How do cults differ from religions? Can a family be a cult? And why are Americans seemingly so susceptible to cults? Rick Alan Ross tackles these questions and many more on Cult Support.
0:00 Cult Support
0:13 Signs you’re in a cult
0:54 What makes a cult a cult?
2:33 Can a family be a cult?
3:22 The end is kinda whatever
4:51 Cults vs. Religions
5:42 Do cult leaders know what they are
6:06 A cult sure but we’re SEO friendly
7:11 [wailing intensifies]
8:08 How do cult leaders get people to believe?
8:57 Cults and looks
9:23 Sex cults
9:58 A non-problematic cult
10:48 Is it a cult?
12:05 Scientology
13:19 USA!
14:09 Craziest cult
15:13 Helping someone leave a cult
16:01 How does cult deprogramming work?
17:59 Odds are they’re right
18:47 Mother God
19:57 Is astrology a potential gateway?
21:13 In this day and age, come on
22:19 Cults on the brain
23:15 Do cults have to end in violence?
23:50 Can you explain NXIVM?
25:41 Bikram Choudhury
26:11 Twin Flame
26:54 Moonies
28:08 Born and raised
29:27 Is involuntary deprogramming legal?
30:16 Some final advice from Rick
Director: Lisandro Perez-Rey
Director of Photography: AJ Young
Editor: Richard Trammell
Expert: Rick Alan Ross
Line Producer: Joseph Buscemi
Associate Producer: Paul Gulyas
Production Manager: Peter Brunette
Production Coordinator: Rhyan Lark
Casting Producer: Nicholas Sawyer
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these cult descriptions describe many reddit users, especially the ones who disowned family by reddit encouragement because they had voted for Trump
0:40 a lot of these signs point to the modern school System
Brahmakumari victim
This guy seems like he knows what he’s talking about. I reckon we all follow him without question.
I am of new age eclectic BIRD CULT. The book Johnathan Livingston Seagull is our ‘bible’. We are about art & music. We all have been damaged either physically or mentally in various ways. I myself had my face pretty much destroyed in an accident back in 2001. Thankfully the plastic surgeon was able to sew my nose back on my head but still … it wasn’t just my nose messed up. Lost my left eye along with all my teeth also. I’m a freak now and shut out of society. The christian society you hold up. If it wasn’t for BIRD CULT life for me would be very very sad. Yeah, be satisfied with the scraps of garbage thrown overboard by your god jesus. My purpose has become in life is to fly.
Make no mistake, David koresh was not a good guy. But the compound was burned by the feds in a gross display of negligence. All of the women and children that died in that fire were killed by the feds.
Okay professor rozay
The fact that they had to put a 988 warning here is just sad
Watched with interest. Thank you
Na na na na na na na na, Leader!
The orb
It’s not called courage that jump into fire.
This will probably be highly unpopular and very controversial. I believe that Jesus was a cult leader, that his word were so powerful that it has become the Christian religion we see today.
Mat Burnz got that Trump Derangement Syndrome and is trying to find a cope for it LOOOL
You might be in a cult
@matthewedon Found another! Try again regard lmao I didn’t vote for Trump 🙂 Finish school
Are most cult leaders suicidal before creating a cullt
do cults ever merge with other cults as in the leaders join
What a misrepresentation of what went on at Waco..
the orb
The new and teen invasive 5000% rise in “trans” is definitely a cult. So detrimental to very young kids. Schools are full of this. There’s a massive cultish attitude and they target vulnerable kids, isolating them keeping them online by flattering, advising isolation etc and they groom them like that. Total control, indoctrination and devastation.
He had me til we got past North Korea as a cult and then called Trumpism a “political faction’