Charles Manson was living in squalor at an old Western movie lot anticipating a race war. Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh, the guru featured in the documentary "Wild Wild Country," was indulging a penchant ...

Craving the same clear direction and hierarchy she’d had as part of the cult, she joined the army — only to find she chafed against the rigid structure she thought she needed to survive.

Although they exert robust psychological control, cults do their utmost to appear ... to offer both friendship and a strict organizational hierarchy. Canadian psychologist Isabelle Hénault ...

“The hierarchy in this “church”, the level of abuse that I’ve consistently heard goes on behind the scenes and how everything centers around the Leader is textbook 101 of cults,” she ...