Cults: Inside the World's Most Notorious Groups and Understanding the People Who Joined Them

I found this on one of my podcasts I listen to! I did enjoy this book!

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This book is a must read this summer. Each page had me anticipating the next. So interesting on so many different levels and several parts of these stories I had never known before -which speaks volumes for a true crime junkie like myself!

Yes….I am a true crime fan. So when one of my favorite podcasters, Max Cutler announced the release of this book I immediately ordered it. I can’t believe it has been unread in my Kindle library since July 11th of this year.This book includes such familiar figures as Charles Manson, Jim Jones & David Koresh. Others may not be as well known (by me) but are nevertheless just as twisted as those listed above. Have you heard of Adolfo de Jesús Constanzo, Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh, Claude Vorilhon, Keith Reinere, Credonia Mwerinde or Marshall Applewhite. Each chapter reads very similarly to the tone flow of Cutler’s podcast.The more control a cult follower is asked to give up, the more likely the are to get sucked in.“In a study of eighty-three religious communes that existed in the nineteenth century, sociologists Richard Sosis and Eric R. Bressler found that communes with only two costly requirements—such as celibacy or the surrendering of possessions—lasted an average of less than ten years. Communes with six to eight requirements lasted for fifty years, and those with more than eleven requirements lasted for sixty years. The more they demanded of followers, the longer they existed.“To listen to the podcast that inspired the book CLICK HEREBased on the additional research that Cutler did for this book. I can see at least one more book in his future

This book is one that you cannot put down! Finally a book that touches on the psychology of cults and there leaders!! I cannot recommend this book enough. All my friends were just as obsessed as I was.